Topic

MacStories

Mentioned in 41 issues, from May 13, 2017 to September 20, 2025.

Issues

  1. 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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  2. 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 →

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.

    22 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  6. 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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  7. Weekly Thing #259 / Vision Pro, Tiny Awards, Mental Liquidity

    Deliberate practice, Apple Vision Pro, MrBeast Willy Wonka, Wolfram Prompt Repository, mental liquidity, dark patterns.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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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  11. 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.

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  12. 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.

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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.

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  15. Weekly Thing #127 / Nov 23, 2019

    Political ad targeting, engineering competency matrix, Google medical data whistleblower, America lost the bison, Why We Sleep errors.

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  16. Weekly Thing #121 / Oct 12, 2019

    Writing is Thinking, managing by outcomes, iOS Shortcuts guide, new emojis iOS 13.2, China Cultural Clash, Chernobyl Reactor 4.

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  17. 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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  18. 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.

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  19. Weekly Thing #118 / Sep 21, 2019

    Apple A13 Bionic chip, iOS 13 review, iPhone 11 Pro camera, Apple Watch Series 5 titanium, Adam Neumann WeWork, Kickstarter union effort.

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  20. 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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  21. 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.

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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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.

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  25. Weekly Thing #95 / Mar 2, 2019

    Halide Spectre, Huawei Mate X foldable, Facebook moderators, YouTube ad boycott, Day One 3.0 Mac, apps sharing data with Facebook.

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  26. 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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  27. 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.

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  28. Weekly Thing #85 / Dec 22, 2018

    US Air Force and Santa, ant colony memories, social media value, paying users to stop Facebook.

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  29. 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.

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  30. 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.

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  31. 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.

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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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 →

  35. Weekly Thing #56 / Jun 2, 2018

    CAPEX cloud trends, location data privacy, OmniFocus 3 iOS, data visualization colors, eero public key infrastructure, black Python formatter.

    20 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat →

  36. 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 →

  37. 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.

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  38. Weekly Thing for July 15, 2017

    Scheduling secrets, bullshit detection, Caddy HTTPS server, OmniGraffle 3.0 for iOS, Scapple, DRM toxic to culture, microservices design patterns, Acorn 6.

    17 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →

  39. Weekly Thing for June 17, 2017

    iPad drag and drop, solar eclipse photography, spaces vs tabs salaries, Daisy blockchain SQLite, AI bots negotiate, Ukraine power grid malware.

    21 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat →

  40. 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 →

  41. Weekly Thing for May 13, 2017

    Layne Kennedy, Minnesota Original, Wintergreen Dog Sledding, Amazon ECS, Macron honeypot accounts, Field Nation Minneapolis, James Comey fired.

    17 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →

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