Spark Mail shipped a Mac CLI and agent skill hooks last week. Read-only email access is free. Write actions (send, move, archive) are behind the Pro subscription. Readdle also published open-source automation recipes and persona hooks for anyone building on top of it. I…
Continue reading →Mike Schmitz’s New Ideal Week Builder
Mike Schmitz shipped a free web tool for designing an ideal week template, and it is pretty clever. The interface is a calendar grid. You drag blocks for your work hours, deep work, family time, exercise, whatever modes matter to you. You color them.…
Listen & read notes →Still on Kagi, Still Happy
John Gruber wrote about Kagi again this week, which is a good excuse for me to update my own take. I’ve been a paying subscriber for a couple of years now, and I have no plans to stop. My search results are better. They…
Continue reading →Focused 256: Time Architecture
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I pick up where we left off in episode 250 and dig into the part of weekly planning that breaks for most people. Mike argues you should build your week around modes and roles, not triage tasks…
Listen & read notes →PowerPhotos: The Apple Photos Power Tools You’re Missing (Sponsor)
I’m happy to welcome back PowerPhotos as a MacSparky sponsor. If you spend any real time inside Apple Photos, you know what’s missing. PowerPhotos fills those gaps, and has been doing it for years. Apple Photos was built on the idea that you have…
Continue reading →Apple Recognizes 50 Developer Community Leaders
Apple launched a new page on the developer site last week honoring 50 community leaders who help the Apple developer community through teaching, content creation, events, and accessibility advocacy. WWDC 2026 starts June 8, and the timing feels intentional. It’s a nice gesture. I…
Continue reading →Asteroid City – My Obsidian Theme
A while back I started fiddling with Obsidian’s CSS to make my vault feel less like a dev tool and more like a place I actually wanted to spend time in. The result is Asteroid City, named after the Wes Anderson film…
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Mac Power Users 849: Managing Photos
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I dig into the wide and messy world of Apple photo management. We talk about pruning enormous libraries, what’s worth keeping, and the cleanup apps we trust to help. We also get into iCloud Shared…
Listen & read notes →What Apple Still Gets Wrong About Watch Faces
I’ve been wearing an Apple Watch since 2015. The face problem hasn’t changed. That sounds like a complaint, and it is, but I want to be specific about it. The Apple Watch has changed enormously over ten years. The hardware is faster. The health…
Continue reading →Coyote vs. ACME Lives
After Warner Bros. tried to shelve the Coyote vs. ACME movie for a tax write-off in 2023, the finished film is finally getting a release. The trailer dropped a few weeks ago, and it hits theaters August 28. The movie is based on Ian…
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