Reading up on Apple

GameToMac now supports 20 games running smoothly on Apple Silicon. Next is more launchers: Epic, GOG, Battle net and Rockstar. Then a bit more time on each game before adding new ones.

@marc_ibrahim

"Not only am I uninterested in the company’s home device, I can, for the first time, envision a future where I don’t buy Apple by default. Indeed, this already happened..." Anyone into the age of agents will eventually realize Apple is a bad fit. https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/

@dhh

if you are in the Apple ecosystem this card is a must. 0% financing for Apple gear. that money can earn you interest in investments or hysa elsewhere. they have done holiday promos in the past where cash back jumps to 6%. got that when I got my Pro Display XDR long ago

@Stammy

Woz is back! I am his first customer. He got my career started. I stuffed so many of his motherboards as a kid. While we sat around and watched TV. My dad built custom holders so we could stuff them while sitting on the couch. And a custom set of wires to take away any static electricity. I once got to interview Woz in front of UC Berkeley’s business school. Said they had fewer failures than the ones built in its own factory. What we didn’t discuss is how much love we put into them. They were technology from an alien world. There wasn’t anything else like it in my life. Woz is still the nicest founder I have ever met. And the original nerd. As I get older I realize how special those few hundred hours spent with him were. Not to mention he gave me $40,000 worth of Mac’s to run the school paper on. And I remember thinking to myself, as we sat in the cafeteria of West Valley Community College, “can’t get that kind of education at Stanford.” When @elonmusk talks about putting love into his products, I get that deeply.

@Scobleizer

Witch hunting level: some guy uses AI to reverse engineer an M4 GPU driver for Linux and part of the community that should be for the open source, for the hacking, for the liberation and freedom is against him.

@antirez

On macOS and wanna see something interesting? Ask your agent: "look at ~/Library/Application Support/Knowledge/knowledgeC.db and tell me some interesting facts" I had no idea this stuff was all getting logged and it can infer a lot about your activity.

@cooperx86

If you're going to buy an Apple product now, NEVER choose: ・iPhone 18 Pro Max ・MacBook Pro ・iPad Pro ・Apple Watch Ultra Instead, choose:

@colenoxrage

John Ternus (new CEO of Apple) shared one of his favorite Steve Jobs stories: Steve was moving a chest of drawers, pulled it away from the wall, and looked at the back. The carpenter finished the back as as beautifully as the rest. Even though nobody was going to see it.

@JasonYoong

A guy will buy the iPhone 18 Pro Max this month. He'll transfer his data from his old phone. He'll set a wallpaper. He'll arrange his apps. He'll open Instagram. And for the next 2 years, he'll use the most advanced smartphone ever built to scroll social media, send texts, take photos on auto mode, and check email the same 5 tasks he performed on the iPhone 13 Pro he's replacing. He won't discover the variable aperture camera that gives him DSLR-level depth-of-field control for the first time in iPhone history. He won't configure the Action Button that replaces 3 daily app-hunting routines with a single press. He won't set the battery charge limit that adds 2 years to the battery's lifespan. He won't use Back Tap to launch shortcuts by tapping the back of the phone twice. He won't adjust the flashlight beam width from spotlight to floodlight. He won't activate the keyboard trackpad hidden inside the spacebar. He won't turn on StandBy mode that transforms the phone into a bedside smart display while charging. His coworker a former Apple Store Genius who spent 4 years watching customers use 20% of their iPhones told him the iPhone 18 Pro Max ships with iOS 27 and approximately 400 features most owners never open. "The phone doesn't need to be more powerful. You need to explore more than 20% of what's already there." She showed him 11 hidden features that transform the iPhone 18 Pro Max from a $1,499 social media scroller into the device Apple actually built. Here's the full playbook 🧵

@jackcoder0

this looks good, apple

@tobi

Someone built a FaceID for Mac. https://github.com/jonnyoo/glance

@nullbytes00

RIP Android.. Apple has finally launched iOS 26.4 This is iOS biggest upgrade in history. Here are insane features you won't believe in the new update: 👇

@Alokkumarzz

We are moving very, very fast towards a fully streamlined Omarchy installer for Apple M machines. You just download our Omarchy M app, try it first, then pick how much space you dedicate, and we do the rest. Incredible team effort. Full announcement later today! 🚀🍏

@dhh

I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong. "AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence of text and predict what typically comes next. Great design is exactly the opposite of this. Great design bends the rules and delights users with memorable, unexpected choices." @anshuc led design and engineering teams at Apple for 12 years. In his words: "Most people only see 1% of AI's creative potential. I want to show you how to tap into the other 99%." His 8 techniques for breaking out of the 1%: 1. Use seed strings to inject variety 2. Be much more ambitious with your prompts 3. Create positive feedback loops with subagents 4. Use image generation to enrich designs 5. Use video generation 6. Cut out elements that don’t add value 7. Remove AI tells 8. Rewrite copy by hand Read the post here:

@lennysan

For nearly 15 years, I sent @tim_cook a weekly report every Sunday night on the global App Store business. My team and I packed it with data, charts, and commentary on what was happening around the world. Most weeks: silence. Every so often, a probing question would come back about a specific metric or market. Or, better, a note congratulating us on a strong quarter. Those reports taught me a lot about discipline and accountability. No matter where I was in the world, I sent that report. Tim expected his leaders to know their businesses cold. Whenever I put anything in front of him, I needed to understand not just the numbers, but what was driving them and what we were doing about it. His expectations made me a much better leader. On my last day at Apple, Tim and I had a 10-minute 1:1 scheduled. We talked for 30. Reflecting on my 21 years at the company, he told me my greatest accomplishment wasn’t helping build a $1 trillion App Store ecosystem or helping scale the business to more than one billion customers. It was the team I had built and the leaders I had developed who were ready to step up after I left. That meant the world to me. We took this photo together right after that conversation. Today is Tim’s last day as CEO of Apple. Much has been written about what he and the company accomplished under his leadership. But perhaps his greatest legacy is the one he taught me to value: the people he developed, the culture he shaped, and the leaders ready to carry it forward. I’ll always be grateful I got to be a part of it.

@mattfischer415

Omarchy is blowing up. I've never been involved with anything in my career that has grown this fast. With Ruby on Rails, we had years to build solid institutions, teams, and relationships. With Omarchy, we've been forced to figure it all out in twelve days. It's exhausting, but also incredibly exciting. It was never sustainable with just Ryan and me running everything. That's how it was, more or less, up until Quattro. Lots of other contributors, but all the responsibility was on us to make sure the ship stayed afloat, the servers didn't crash, and fixes got pushed out quickly. Now it's time to build a proper institution. Durable, resilient, and competent. That's what we're doing here on Basecamp now. I'm spinning up teams for every facet of responsible distro management, and I'm getting an absolute outpouring of interest for all of them. Everyone wants to be part of this. We're winning hearts, minds, and volunteers at an astounding rate. Great! We need all of it to succeed. Because make no mistake: There are many people who'd love to see this rocket blow up before it reaches the moon. Aggrieved Linux users who don't like the sudden attention their exclusive hobby has received. Competing Linux distributions that are seeing our numbers explode. Mac stans who've sunk their identity into an apple. And, of course, any of the haters I've picked up in my quarter-century career speaking bluntly on the internet. They're not going to succeed. Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop! That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing. This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance. For thirty years, we've been subject to one OS overlord or another. Dictating how we compute. Choking off competitors through platform malfeasance. Tollboothing the distribution. That ends now. Because Linux is going to win. And Linux is free. As in beer, speech, and source. But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work in front of us if we actually want to make our mark. But there's never been a better time for this kind of delusional ambition. The age of agents is the unlocking factor. It sounds like a LinkedIn slogan, but it's true. Where the application of tokens goes, the innovation follows. We can fix everything. Let's do it together. Let's go. --- This is what I sent to the dozens of new volunteers who've signed up for teams within the new Omarchy organization yesterday. But we might as well broadcast our mission and intentions to the world too.

@dhh

In case it's not clear: I will spend the next several months making as many parts of the Apple app ecosystem work well with agents and frontier AI. There's momentum at @macstoriesnet and I can't be stopped. 💪

@viticci

I built the ultimate Apple Notes CLI. Apple never made a real API for Notes. So, I reverse-engineered one. NotesCTL covers ALL the features of the Notes app. NotesCTL can: - Create notes with support for every element. Tags, rich links, attachments, checklists, headings, tables, audio recordings, highlights, and more. Great for assembling deep research reports with agents! - Search and edit notes with the same queries and filters - Create native PencilKit drawings! This is fun. Have your agent turn SVGs into native drawings that you can then edit and color with the Apple Pencil. Great for kids, coloring books, or simple mockups - Support for Smart Folders, sub-folders, and pins - Transcribe audio recordings and extract Notes' transcriptions - Export everything with a customizable Markdown Exporter with template support NotesCTL is not another AppleScript wrapper: it aims to be the full Notes CLI Apple never made. I've genuinely had the best time using this with Codex, Codex Voice, Hermes Agent, and Claude Cowork over the past 2 months. NotesCTL is now in early testing for members of the Club MacStories Discord. You can join at $10 or $12/month here:

@viticci

See, here's the thing. I don't have any major problems with Apple products. Quality may have slipped on the software side recently, but ok, things happen. New guy in charge soon, maybe that turns around. And their hardware is undeniably great. I still enjoy using Apple products, and I'm cheering Apple on. The industry benefits when Apple's at the top of their game. But also... Omarchy is super interesting and super good. I try to be a curious person, and Omarchy presents an opportunity for me to stretch my curiousity, crack some habits, and try a novel different approach on for size. Linux!? I never thought. But here I am, and I'm here for it. I mean this is what we ask our HEY and Basecamp customers to do. Try something new! Be open! Be curious! We don't make software like everyone else. Our products don't look or work like anyone else's. We have a very different point of view than the mainstream. And those open to shedding their perception of what they think they need, are always in for a treat when they walk through our doors. I've essentially been following the Apple way for 40 (!) years. Maybe it's time for a break? Omarchy feels good for my brain! And I really like it! Getting more and more used to it every day. It's now my primary computer. The Macbook is sleeping, clamshell closed, under a pile of papers. The Dell XPS 16 w/ Omarchy is bright and alive. I'm writing this on it right now. I try to live my life by a few simple principles. One of those is to Like More Things. I wish that for you too.

@jasonfried

I emailed Steve Jobs once and he sent me a vegan cake recipe. Later on, I briefly introduced myself at a WWDC and mentioned his cake recipe was good. He got annoyed and walked away. Mentioning cake recipes is low agency, I guess. 🙃

@codejake

Setup a new Mac. Gone full Apple Container instead of Docker. This app makes it so much nicer https://orchard.andon.dev 🍏

@notrab

I have never tried Omarchy so far but there are a few reasons why I think what DHH is trying to do with Linux on the Desktop could be significant. There is the right mix of AI help with many boring and costly tasks (drivers for instance), MacOS dropping in quality, and the fact the only reason why Linux never succeeded in the Desktop is that UX requires an opinionated development path from some entity able to also fuel it, not the distributions setup Linux historically had. For all this reasons, a few starts aligned, so this could be the right time. Also ROCm / Vulkan / CUDA GPU hardware options are evolving, and could end creating a compelling alternative to Apple hardware for local inference: but this is also the major risk, if Apple wins the local inference hardware battle, MacOS could become a forced choice for many.

@antirez

Something I routinely am in awe about is the compute amplification every commit has today vs. 20 years ago, at least personally. Back then, my personal computer was only non-idle when I was working locally. I ran tests locally. When I pushed, there was no CI. The tests themselves were minimal maturity (simple unit tests, some e2e). Today when I push, CI exists. It fans out to 200+ jobs across macOS, Linux, and Windows that take ~20 minutes to complete in totality. A successful CI triggers ~8 beefy machines for tip releases. Tip releases trigger Apple notarization machines. Simultaneously, I have dedicated machines running 24/7 doing fuzz testing at basically 100% CPU constantly. Locally, my computer is using CPU much more of the day due to background agents. My average CPU utilization on my M4 Max overnight the last 7 days was over 20%. "Low" but before my average would've been 0% (deep sleep)! Plus, those agents are commanding a ton of GPU utilization elsewhere. I'm not making any judgement here of whether this is good or bad, because I think there are both good elements and bad elements. Simply that its quite astonishing how much compute my daily work amplifies in 2026 vs. 2006.

@mitchellh

I'm so happy Apple pissed off @dhh to the degree that he is now going on a decade long vendetta. 2026 is the year of Linux on my desktop.

@mschoening

Linux adoption among programmers is about to go parabolic. Any missing app can be recreated easily. The open-source advantage with agents is unstoppable. Nobody is going to be waiting for Apple to sign their shit. Just keep a Mac Mini as a remote builder for iOS work. Done.

@dhh

nice to see http://apple.com inspired by http://loot.photos

@marckohlbrugge

New skill: /apple-design Apple’s WWDC videos are a goldmine of knowledge. I’ve combed through my favorite ones and came up with 17 design and motion principles. Use them to review existing work or when working on something new to get it right. http://github.com/emilkowalski/skills

@emilkowalski