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Introducing Rem CTL: The Power-User Reminders CLI for mac OS and AI Agents
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (714+ words) A Private All-in-One Journal App Made for i Pad, Offering 50% Off Your First Year. Rem CTL in the mac OS Terminal app. Today, I'm pleased to release my latest free and open source project: Rem CTL, a power-user Reminders CLI…...
Introducing Shortcuts Playground: Create Apple Shortcuts with Claude Code or Codex
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (988+ words) Now with a Powerful Launcher for Your Mac Shortcuts Playground in Claude Code. Shortcuts Playground is free and open source: anyone can download the plugin from this Git Hub repo, where I extensively documented how it works behind the scenes…...
My Favorite Tips and Tricks for Working with Codex Inside Chat GPT on i OS
1+ week, 5+ day ago (46+ words) Mac Stories Mac Stories Weekly: Issue 513 - May 15, 2026 Get weekly newsletters, exclusive stories, member downloads, and ad-free version of Mac Stories Unwind. Web Dev by Made with Fuel | Design by Silvia Gatta...
Apple Recognizes Developer Community Leaders
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (215+ words) Yesterday, Apple published a new page on its Developer site highlighting the contributions of 50 prominent members in the Apple developer community. The page recognizes individuals from around the world and across a variety of disciplines, from technical writing, content creation,…...
A Look at Apple's 2026 Swift Student Challenge Winners
2+ week, 6+ day ago (450+ words) Earlier today, Apple profiled the accomplishments of Swift Student Challenge winners. The 350 students who built the winning app playgrounds come from 37 countries and were chosen from the largest pool of participants ever. Susan Prescott, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer…...
App Marketing: My Extended Q&A for Paul Hudson's Everything but the Code
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (760+ words) Earlier this year, Paul Hudson asked me to answer a few questions about app marketing for a book he was writing called Everything But the Code. The book is finished now, and it's full of great advice from Paul and…...
Open AI Targets Coding and Knowledge Work with Its New GPT-5. 5 Model
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (183+ words) John is Mac Stories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four Mac Stories podcasts: App Stories, which covers the world of apps,…...
Hands-On with Anthropic Labs" Claude Design Preview
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (111+ words) Claude Design takes advantage of Opus 4. 7s new support for images as wide as 2576 pixels. That burns through tokens faster because the images are larger, and it can take a long time for Claude to finish a design, but the wait…...
Coding Agents Are Reshaping the App Store
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (234+ words) Another interesting tidbit from Appfigures is that the Utilities app category moved up the top five chart and Productivity apps, which were missing from the Q12024 and Q12025 top fives, made it into this past quarter's top five. The working hypothesis here…...
Apple Beefed Up Its Rule Against Copycat Apps
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (212+ words) John is Mac Stories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four Mac Stories podcasts: App Stories, which covers the world of apps,…...