Topic

The MacStories Review

Mentioned in 23 issues, from Sep 2017 to Sep 2026.

Issues

  1. WT350 — Builders Puzzlers And Agents

    Product engineering after AI, Claude Code and Codex, Homebrew's BrewUI, code reviews in flux, GPT-6 Astra, Unread 5.0, Kubb tournament.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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.

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  9. 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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  10. 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.

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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 #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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. Weekly Thing #73 / Sep 29, 2018

    Safari Content Blockers, Apple Watch healthcare, Cloudflare Registrar, Facebook shadow contacts, macOS Mojave review, OmniFocus 3 for Mac.

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  21. 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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  22. Weekly Thing #50 / Apr 21, 2018

    Palantir knows everything, Jeff Bezos shareholder letter, Tim Wu, be a deletist, TweetDelete, open source management platform.

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  23. 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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