1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (368+ words) Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories" family of podcasts: This week, Federico and John draw from their experiences using AI agents to imagine the sort of agent Apple could build with tight hardware and software integration if it had a…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (495+ words) I've said over and over that the most important feature of any habit tracker is being able to get in and out of the app quickly. For some developers, that doesn't always come naturally. After all, doesn't every developer want…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (112+ words) Federico is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, where he writes about Apple with a focus on apps, developers, iPad, and iOS productivity. He founded MacStories in April 2009 and has been writing about Apple since. Federico is also the co-host…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (175+ words) Automating Claude Code in iMessage. This is no way to live. However, since I'm silly enough to always trust Opus 4.6 at this point and can't be bothered to type "yes [random code]" too many times in a row, I came…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (468+ words) Late yesterday, Anthropic announced messaging support for Claude Code, allowing users to connect to a Claude Code session running on a Mac from a mobile device using Telegram and Discord bots. I spent a few hours playing with it last…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (163+ words) An eye-opening story from Steve Troughton-Smith, who tested Codex for a month and ended up rewriting a bunch of his apps and shipping versions for Windows and Android: This story is unfinished; this feels like a first foray into what…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (272+ words) [Update: Perplexity has released an iPad version of Comet alongside the iPhone version, which you can install using the same App Store links below. However, because it wasn't part of the TestFlight version of the app that we tested, we…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (178+ words) Dispatch on the Mac. Dispatch is a close cousin of Claude Code's recently-released Remote Control feature, but for Cowork. Remote Control requires a Claude Code session to be active in Terminal on your Mac. Similarly, Dispatch requires that your Mac…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (200+ words) I wasn't fully sure what to call this blog post, but I caught myself doing a few things on my iPad Pro today that I hadn't previously mentioned on MacStories, and they seemed worthy of a mention here. Hence, the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (299+ words) I loved this essay by Sam Henri Gold on the MacBook Neo but, really, about where the "wrong" computer in your life can take you: There is a certain kind of computer review that is really a permission slip. It…...