Apple turned 50 today. If you haven’t seen it yet, there’s a fun animated history running on Apple’s homepage that sketches its way through five decades of products. It’s clever but not too clever. If you’ve been around through Apple’s triumphs and failures, it’s…
Continue reading →March in the MacSparky Labs
MacSparky Labs members get to participate in member events and receive a number of exclusive videos and podcasts each month. Here’s a summary of offerings this past month: March 2026 2026-03-27 – The Lab Report for March 27, 2026 (M,I,P) (Podcast) 2026-03-25 – Sparky’s…
Continue reading →The Supportive Podcast Appearance
I was a guest on The Supportive, a podcast from Help Scout hosted by Mat Patterson. The episode is about customer support, small business, and figuring out what matters when you’re a one-person operation. When Mat first reached out, I wasn’t sure an interview…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 842: Feedback
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I dig into the feedback bag. We cover everything from Stephen’s secret Cloudflare image-hosting shortcut to the great Raycast vs. Spotlight vs. Alfred debate, Stream Deck setups (and whether that new XL is too much…
Listen & read notes →The Paint at 7AM
Plenty of companies make money. Fewer make things people love. I’ve been thinking about that gap lately, and I think it starts at the top. Does the CEO actually care about the product? Not the quarterly numbers. Not the stock price. The product itself.…
Continue reading →The Demise of the Mac Pro
Yesterday Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is officially discontinued. I don’t think anybody who’s been paying attention to this can be surprised. The writing was on the wall with the last Mac Pro update, which was twice the price and just…
Continue reading →The MacBook Neo’s Unfair Advantage
Steven Sinofsky, who ran the Windows division at Microsoft, picked up a MacBook Neo on launch day and wrote a long, reflective piece about it on his Substack. He called it “a paradigm shifting computer”. Coming from the guy who shipped Windows 8 and…
Continue reading →The Lab Report for March 27, 2026
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Focused 252: Donkey Work
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I dig into an idea we’re calling “donkey work.” It’s the stuff that has to get done but doesn’t require your best creative thinking. Invoicing, email triage, file management, scheduling. The question is whether AI assistants can…
Listen & read notes →Sparky’s Robot Sample
A lot of Labs members who aren’t interested in the Robot Assistant Field Guide are still curious about exactly what I’m doing with it…
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