This post is sponsored by Rogue Amoeba. This week, my friends at Rogue Amoeba are back to sponsor MacSparky, and I want to spotlight their flagship recording tool for the Mac: Audio Hijack. Audio Hijack is the tool the pros reach for. Use it…
Continue reading →Marked 3 Is Officially Out
Brett Terpstra just shipped Marked 3. It’s the biggest update in the app’s history. After more than a decade of Marked, that’s impressive. If you’ve never used it, Marked does one job. You write Markdown in whatever editor you like, and Marked shows you…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 851: Feedback
It’s a feedback episode, which means Stephen and I finally crack open the mailbag that’s been piling up. I went hard at Apple Home since we last talked. I nuked my twelve-year-old setup, ran Ethernet cable around the house for Aqara cameras, and put…
Listen & read notes →The Escape-Valve System
At the top of my daily note, there are five little checkboxes. Shop. Bonsai. Exercise. Reading. Meditation. They aren’t on the calendar. They have no time blocks assigned. They just sit there. For a while, I thought of them as “non-negotiables”. Every box had…
Continue reading →May 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: May 2026 2026-05-29 – May in the MacSparky Labs (M,I,P) (Post) 2026-05-29 – May Deep Dive…
Continue reading →DEVONthink 4.3 and a Privacy-First MCP
DEVONthink 4.3 shipped last week, and the headline for me is a single feature. DEVONthink now has its own MCP server. If you’ve been following along with the Robot Assistant work, you know why that matters. MCP is the connector standard that lets an…
Continue reading →Cotypist Brings Smart Autocomplete to Every Mac App
Daniel Gräfe launched Cotypist to the public yesterday, and it’s worth checking out. Cotypist is smart autocomplete for the Mac. Not autocomplete in one editor. Autocomplete everywhere you write. Mail, notes, documents, messages, the prompt box of whatever AI tool you’re using. You start…
Continue reading →Bartender 6
Bartender 6 is out, and if you have a MacBook with a notch, the headline feature is Top Shelf. The idea: that camera notch at the top of your MacBook display is real estate that Apple has never done much with. Bartender Pro turns…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 850: Overcast Transcripts and 48 Mac minis with Marco Arment
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I sit down with Marco Arment to talk about what happens when a podcast app developer accidentally builds a data center. Overcast now transcribes podcasts on demand, and the hardware behind that feature is 48…
Listen & read notes →The Silent Film Era of AI
The first movies were shot from a theater seat. The camera sat where the audience would have sat. The actors moved across the frame like they were on a stage, and the shot didn’t change for the whole picture. You were watching a play…
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