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macstories.net

Mentioned in 68 issues, from May 27, 2017 to May 23, 2026.

Issues

  1. WT349 — Owning the Rails

    Internet of AI, Flipcash community coins, agentic LLM harnesses, RCCF method, adult friendship, productivity apps and agents, zerolang, Shortcuts Playground, Claude Code monorepo.

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  2. Weekly Thing 345 / Codex, Headless, Wikiwise

    OpenAI Codex App, Cloudflare Email Service, Headless everything for personal AI, Claude Design, Dad brains, ChatGPT Images 2.0, GPT-5.5.

    19 links 3.7k words 💬 Chat →

  3. Weekly Thing 344 / Mythos, Artemis, Signals

    Working with agents, economics of software teams, evals as new PRD, OpenAI Codex superapp, saying goodbye to Agile, cybersecurity proof of work.

    26 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  4. Weekly Thing 341 / Minions, MAX, ReMemory

    Mitchell Hashimoto AI journey, Claude as thinking space, Stripe coding agents, Dot menu bar calendar, ReMemory secret sharing, AI fatigue.

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  5. Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission

    Crucial exits consumer RAM, AI transforming work at Anthropic, Perl's cultural decline, why RSS matters, Let's Encrypt 10 years, why we need to die.

    21 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  6. Weekly Thing 330 / Music, Intervals, Nanochat

    Vibe engineering, Claude Code plugins, Herd MCP Servers, Album Cards music discovery, Friday Flash Crash, nanochat ChatGPT, Jujutsu tutorial.

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  7. Weekly Thing 327 / Prototypes, Tahoe, UTF-8

    Purpose of Prototypes, Forward Deployed Engineers, ChatGPT Memory, UTF-8 design, iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, Pig-Butchering Scams, iPhone 17 Pro Camera.

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  8. Weekly Thing 323 / Context, Dithering, Liquid Glass

    MCP best practices, Apple TV privacy, iOS 26 Liquid Glass, visionOS 26, macOS Tahoe, Telegram FSB honeypot, o3 pro.

    29 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat →

  9. Weekly Thing 311 / WikiTok, Bookmarklets, Tapestry

    Apple Vision Glasses, UK backdoor defiance, iPhone 16e, Bybit $1.5B hack, Lazarus Group, software job openings, WikiTok, olmOCR document conversion.

    26 links 3.6k words 💬 Chat →

  10. Weekly Thing 309 / Programming, Silence, Drones

    End of programming, iCloud encryption backdoor, Agile as trauma, only way forward is Mac, personal software, sound of silence, stablecoin dollarization.

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  11. Weekly Thing 308 / Tapestry, Terminal, Tab

    LocalSend file sharing, TRMNL e-ink dashboard, Signal for government workers, Apple Invites app, one year with Vision Pro, El Salvador abandons Bitcoin.

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  12. Weekly Thing 305 / Lighthouse, Willow, Artemis

    RCS in iOS 18, Death of Intel, Willow quantum chip, Lighthouse inbox zero for RSS, itch.io AI phishing, global IT outage 2025.

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  13. Weekly Thing 299 / Apples, Abundance, Australia

    Chatbot blamed for teen's suicide, Vision Pro bites dog, iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence execution, Change Healthcare breach, weird timezones.

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  14. Weekly Thing 294 / Vaporizing, Intelligence, Contraption

    Minneapolis street grid, iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, visionOS 2, iPhone 16 Pro camera, Meta Orion AR glasses, social media surveillance.

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  15. Weekly Thing 287 / Plinky, Piccolo, Privacy

    Piccolo stackless Lua, differential privacy, ENS Labs .box domains, Amazon margin expansion, Marvel Vision Pro, Scott Galloway TED.

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  16. Weekly Thing 284 / Playdate, Tetris, Calvin

    UX of UUIDs, Peloton media company problems, half-billion GPT tokens, great technical blog, Playdate handheld hardware, Calvin and Hobbes.

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  17. Weekly Thing 269 / Phind, Textcasting, Tailspin

    Apple M3, CPUs, Humane, Phind AI search, on-call engineering, Bitcoin overhang, GPTs, Textcasting, OpenAI DevDay keynote.

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  18. Weekly Thing 268 / Schema, Achtung, Gamification

    C2PA, computational AI thinking, watchOS 10 review, U2 at Sphere, gamification of public discourse, Apple CPU architecture, REST API design.

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  19. Weekly Thing 263 / Copilot, Del.icio.us, Pancake

    Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo, Microsoft Copilot, Scaling Kafka at PayPal, Philips Hue ecosystem, macOS Sonoma review, Mastercard transaction data.

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  20. Weekly Thing 262 / Simulator, System, Snoopy

    Apple Wonderlust event, iPhones 15 Pro, iOS 17 review, macOS Sonoma passwords, Snoopy watch, economy simulator, capitalism onchain, online privacy.

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  21. Weekly Thing 261 / Bloomfield Bridge, Critical Ignoring, Subscription Era

    Bloomfield Bridge mystery, critical ignoring, Virginia data centers, Google ad tracking in Chrome, Ukraine digital revolution, subscription era ending.

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  22. Weekly Thing #258 / Vision, Strike, Reputation

    Vision Pro first impressions, Apple Vision, open-source LLMs, HTTP/3 usage, iPadOS Stage Manager, NVIDIA Grace Hopper, GPT-4 in Minecraft, personal brands.

    30 links 4.3k words 💬 Chat →

  23. Weekly Thing #2^8 / Bitcoin, Kagi, Brink

    Google I/O, AI battles, ad-tech, Ethereum staking, Logic Pro for iPad, Final Cut Pro for iPad, Kagi Search, bookmarking data model.

    21 links 5.4k words 💬 Chat →

  24. Weekly Thing #248 / Bicycle, Attention, Shapella

    ChatGPT Wolfram superpowers, Twitter dying, S3 eternal service, pause giant AI experiments, Ethereum Shapella, post-GPT world.

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  25. Weekly Thing #237 / Ethereum, Zelensky, Fadell + Erratic Narratives

    Ethereum ecosystem, Zelensky Person of Year, Black Start power grid, Apple security features, Tony Fadell crypto, FTX collapse.

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  26. Weekly Thing #226 / Patagonia, Merge, Walrus

    Patagonia founder gives away, Vitalik Buterin Ethereum, Coin Metrics Merge update, Steve Jobs Archive, watchOS 9, iOS 16, Python walrus operator.

    27 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat →

  27. Weekly Thing #223 / Digital Identity, Finding a Mode, WWDC

    Reputation in Web3, Target's inventory problem, Tim Cook on privacy, watchOS 9, iOS 16, macOS Ventura, Unix pipelines, Thinking in Bets, Find A Mode.

    24 links 4.4k words 💬 Chat →

  28. Weekly Thing #216 / NFT, DST, PDP

    GISTEMP climate spiral, war diary Belorusets, daylight saving time permanent, NFT rug pull, internet resilience Ukraine, PDP-11 minicomputer.

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  29. Weekly Thing #205 / Hurl, Faster, Web3

    Hype-free Web3 observations, ConstitutionDAO crypto bid, beartype Python type-checking, reMarkable notebook, Knowledge Graphs, Data Governance branding.

    30 links 3.7k words 💬 Chat →

  30. Weekly Thing #201 / Collecting, Smart, Stupid

    Digital death of collecting, MacBook Pro M1 Max, macOS Monterey review, CookLang recipe markup, RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601, Web3 vs Web2, Taleb Concepts.

    33 links 4.3k words 💬 Chat →

  31. Weekly Thing #200 / Developers, Org Design, Types

    Junior developers, org design, SaaS metrics, type hints, search knowledge, M1 Pro MacBook Pro, permanent web, NFT games, open source finance.

    17 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat →

  32. Weekly Thing #196 / iPhone 13, iOS 15, watchOS 8

    iPhone 13 Pro Tanzania, iPhones 13, machine learning, calendar as archive, Google location warrants, prehistory of DAOs, Bitcoin energy usage.

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  33. Weekly Thing #190 / WWDC, Passport, Roll

    Cloud trillion dollar paradox, Fastly crippled the Web, iCloud Private Relay, WWDC Shortcuts for Mac, end the data economy, Bitcoin Water Trust.

    35 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat →

  34. Weekly Thing #184 / UML, Vizy, Markdown

    UML's death, NFT Storage on IPFS, Nexon Bitcoin purchase, 1Blocker firewall, handwriting beats typing, Emojis as Favicons.

    24 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat →

  35. Weekly Thing #183 / Visidata, FTP, Amazon

    Everything Easy is Hard Again, Bitcoin Energy Consumption, FTP is 50 years old, high quality audio, AirTag Review, PHP in 2021.

    20 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat →

  36. Weekly Thing #165 / Sessions, Friluftsliv, Everlong

    Apple M1 Macs, iPhone 12 Mini and Pro Max, macOS Big Sur review, COVID vaccine 90% protection, Let's Encrypt independent, digital gardens.

    27 links 2.7k words 💬 Chat →

  37. Weekly Thing #161 / Letter, Asterisk, You Should Write ✍️

    iOS 14 review, iPhone 12 lineup, Git scraping, Facebook Michigan kidnapping plot, Python 3.9, Northern Lights from U-2 spyplane.

    21 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat →

  38. Weekly Thing #158 / Blacklight, Whistleblower, Fly Fishing

    Fly-fishing rods, silencing conspiracy theories, QAnon nightmare, Facebook political manipulation, Let's Encrypt certificates, GitHub master to main.

    22 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  39. Weekly Thing #157 / Superpower, Dune, Three Year Rule

    Snowflake IPO, Apple One subscriptions, App Sprawl, Dune trailer, Ugh fields, Underwater datacenters, Brandi Carlile, Wikipedia Widgets.

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  40. Weekly Thing #154 / Giving Feedback, Apple WWDC, Anti-Encryption

    Amazon Honeycode, anti-encryption bill, Mac Apple Silicon, iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, GitHub Super Linter, Plausible Analytics, chip wars.

    25 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  41. Weekly Thing #150 / Speed, Insane Videoconferencing, OmniFocus, LaTeX

    Facebook algorithms divided users, Small Web, Obsidian, OmniFocus Omni Automation, Mongolia Covid-19 response, LaTeX.css, Deno guide, coronavirus bots.

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  42. Weekly Thing #149 / RSS, Blogs, Giphy, Flour

    King Arthur Flour baking obsession, Facebook buys Giphy, RSS comeback, solar's cheap future, DSLR as webcam, iOS 13.5 exposure notifications.

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  43. Weekly Thing #139 / Control, Energy

    Brave Browser, Facebook's negative impact, Things Apple Watch app, history of the URL, low carb diet brain effects, brain's nightly rinse cycle.

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  44. Weekly Thing #132 / Backdoors, Espresso, Technical Debt, Coaching, Studio Ghibli

    Backdoors and golden keys, Phil Zimmerman, Clipper chip, brewing better espresso, technical debt Tetris, GraphQL vs REST, MindNode 7.0.

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  45. Weekly Thing #130 / Dec 14, 2019

    TikTok privacy analysis, Ring's surveillance network, disaster.radio, Lightroom SD card importing, JSON-LD introduction, election news chaos.

    16 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat →

  46. Weekly Thing #120 / Oct 5, 2019

    What executives do, Amazon's most important email, Apple's New Map Northeast, tvOS 13 review, WeWork unloading Adam Neumann.

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  47. Weekly Thing #119 / Sep 28, 2019

    Getting Things Done author, Darkroom light mode, Google contractors unionize, WeWork fraud, watchOS 6 review, iOS 13 Shortcuts library.

    17 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →

  48. Weekly Thing #117 / Sep 14, 2019

    Solving climate change 2050, quitting social media, encrypted DNS privacy gap, Apple Watch Series 5, iPhone 11 Pro, Waterfall in Agile.

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  49. Weekly Thing #111 / Jun 22, 2019

    Arctic permafrost thawing early, Facebook Libra crypto, Guardian Firewall for iOS, Soulver 3 for Mac, Bluetooth surveillance tracking, new Dropbox.

    19 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat →

  50. Weekly Thing #110 / Jun 15, 2019

    Privacy policies disaster, IPv6 design, Maker Faire layoffs, ad industry data tracking, Salesforce buying Tableau, YouTube radicalization.

    10 links 1.3k words 💬 Chat →

  51. Weekly Thing #109 / Jun 8, 2019

    Michael Pollan cooking, Apple audacity, GTD workflow, iOS 13 overview, watchOS 6, iPadOS, Shortcuts automation, Shopify commerce report.

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  52. Weekly Thing #105 / May 11, 2019

    One-on-ones meetings, Chromium privacy, LookUp 5.2 Watch app, OmniFocus Today Lists, LIDAR range imaging, Stripe Remote hub, CC Search.

    10 links 1.1k words 💬 Chat →

  53. Weekly Thing #102 / Apr 20, 2019

    Supplement industry nutrition study, selfie deaths epidemic, Facebook AI voice assistant, Uber IPO $10 billion loss, Disney+ pricing details.

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  54. Weekly Thing #99 / Mar 30, 2019

    Apple Card, brain on exercise, Shortcuts 2.2, Drafts for Mac, privacy not an abstraction, most important writing lesson, Distinguished Engineer.

    8 links 1.2k words 💬 Chat →

  55. Weekly Thing #91 / Feb 2, 2019

    AI robotic knee, JSON inspection iOS, principal engineer, MMOs real life politics, malicious shortcuts, HomeKit smart TVs, Steve Jobs iPhones.

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  56. Weekly Thing #86 / Dec 29, 2018

    Hyperlink to the Stream, government blocking on Twitter, Yoda of Silicon Valley, Facebook-free business, circuit breakers or retries, must-have iOS apps.

    14 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat →

  57. Weekly Thing #81 / Nov 24, 2018

    Zapier ARR SEO strategy, no phones allowed, manager READMEs, future of photography, Kubernetes 101, iPad Pro 2018, Facebook patent ads.

    20 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat →

  58. Weekly Thing #78 / Nov 3, 2018

    Screens and kids, OmniFocus for the Web, Mac mini overview, iPad Pro overview, voting machines on eBay, logs with Rust, Tesla Model 3 teardown.

    12 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat →

  59. Weekly Thing #75 / Oct 13, 2018

    Tesla Model 3 safety, OpenID decline, Instagram bullying, Apple Frames shortcut, RECaf caffeine tracking, Halide RAW camera, senior engineer's job.

    10 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat →

  60. Weekly Thing #72 / Sep 22, 2018

    Linux 4.19-rc4 apology, iPhones XS, Apple Watch Series 4, iOS 12 review, 1Password AutoFill, Scriptable JavaScript, decision fatigue, Larry Page.

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  61. Weekly Thing #71 / Sep 15, 2018

    Habits vs. Workflows, genetically engineered mosquitoes, Siri Shortcuts Field Guide, iPhone Franchise, Apple Watch Series 4, State of Agile 2018.

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  62. Weekly Thing #59 / Jun 23, 2018

    Silicon Valley moral cesspool, Innovation Stack, YNAB API, personal data requests, Through-Wall Pose Estimation, Survivorship Bias.

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  63. Weekly Thing #57 / Jun 9, 2018

    Microsoft data center ocean, Safari privacy browser, Microsoft GitHub, macOS Mojave, iOS 12, watchOS 5, teens social media technology.

    18 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  64. Weekly Thing for October 28, 2017

    Dungeons & Dragons resurrection, AlphaGo Zero, iPad Pro programming, Faktory, Mastodon Project, Vietnam War Ken Burns, TLDR pages.

    21 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat →

  65. Weekly Thing for October 21, 2017

    Ethical minefields of technology, imposter syndrome, Facebook regrets, software architecture failing, Cardhop for Mac, ProseMirror 1.0, Micro.blog for Mac.

    25 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat →

  66. Weekly Thing for September 23, 2017

    Relicensing React and Jest, A11 Bionic chip, iOS 11 review, iPhone 8 camera, Apple Watch Series 3, Swift 4.0, Facebook's war on free will.

    30 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  67. Weekly Thing for June 10, 2017

    End-to-End Encryption FAQ, UUID history, iOS 11 iPad features, macOS High Sierra, watchOS 4, AirPlay 2, Monument Valley 2, printer tracking dots.

    30 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat →

  68. Weekly Thing for May 27, 2017

    1Password Travel Mode, largest Git repo, JSON Feed, Gary Gygax D&D, Mister Rogers cardigans, Hello Weather iOS, Anker beating Apple.

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