I spent the last month setting up a new community for the MacSparky audience. I’m not going to walk you through the build today. That’s a piece for another week. What I want to tell you about is where the actual decisions came from.…
Continue reading →Cotypist Puts Smart Autocomplete Wherever You Type
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Cotypist. I’ve been writing with Cotypist for a couple of months now, and it’s become part of how I work on the Mac. So I’m glad to have Cotypist sponsoring MacSparky this week. Cotypist is autocomplete that follows…
Continue reading →Where Apple’s Price Increases Will Land
Tim Cook just told the Wall Street Journal that Apple is raising prices. The cause is a memory chip shortage. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” Cook said. He added that Apple has been trying to shield its customers, “but the situation has become unsustainable”.…
Continue reading →This Week in the Labs — June 19, 2026
It’s week two of the new betas and we’re learning more in the MacSparky Labs. Below you’ll find the week’s new videos and podcasts, a few of the conversations happening in the member community, and what’s coming next week. Most of those links lead…
Continue reading →Soldering My Way to 1MB
Get a few nerds of a certain age talking about the early days of personal computing, and the same machines always come up. The Apple II gets its flowers. So does the Commodore 64. Somebody gets misty about the TRS-80. Nobody mentions the Atari…
Continue reading →100 New Reasons BBEdit Doesn’t Suck
Bare Bones has shipped BBEdit 16, a major update to the text editor that has outlived nearly everything else on my Mac. The release notes count more than 100 new features and refinements.The headline feature is text search inside images. BBEdit can now run…
Continue reading →Intentional AI 2: The Useful Architecture
On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris Bailey and I get into the part most people skip. Everybody knows you can chat with AI. Far fewer people know how to turn that chat into a system that actually does the work. So we lay…
Continue reading →The Virtual OS Museum Is a Time Machine for Mac Nerds
If you ever owned a Mac that booted on a chime, the Virtual OS Museum is the rabbit hole for you. Andrew Warkentin has assembled a single emulation project covering more than 1,700 pre-installed operating systems and apps across 250 platforms. Classic Mac OS.…
Continue reading →Focused 258: Defaults
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I dig into defaults, chronotype, and capacity. Three things that quietly shape how you work whether you pay attention to them or not. I talk about my practice of writing down my own belief systems, and what…
Continue reading →Paste Meets MCP
Paste, the Mac clipboard manager, just added MCP support. Your clipboard history can now talk to Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any other AI tool that speaks the protocol, through a local MCP server running on your Mac. Think about what passes through your clipboard…
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