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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MailMaven: The Email Client for Mac Power Users (Sponsor)
My thanks to SmallCubed for sponsoring MacSparky this week. When Apple pulled the rug out from under third-party Mail plugins, a lot of power users lost tools they depended on. SmallCubed’s MailSuite (MailTags, Mail Act-On) was one of the big ones. Rather than walk…
Continue reading →The J-K-L Window Trick: Keyboard Maestro on Two Displays
When I added a second display for my robot assistant, I needed a fast way to throw windows between screens. Keyboard Maestro’s conflict palettes made it surprisingly simple…
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Mac Power Users 841: Robot Assistant Field Guide
This week on Mac Power Users, Stephen and I go deep on the robot assistant system I’ve been building with Claude Cowork. We cover the whole journey — from why chatbots never quite delivered on their productivity promises to the combination of skill files,…
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