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20 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
This is SO interesting because the OS market share for developers seems to be the inverse, based on devs in my “bubble” (those at startups + Big Tech) #1 MacOS #2 Linux #3 Windows I ran a survey here + on LI with 4,000 responses each - it’s what I mean by “bubble” Quoting @dhh The age of agents belongs to Linux! Linux startups Related
18 September
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
1. Work for months on a major update of iOS & macOS app 2. Test, test, test 3. Submit to App Review a week before launch 4. Schedule a price increase 5. Get an in-app event approved 6. Have iOS app approved on the same day 7. Have macOS app go into review on the same day 8. Wait a day for macOS 9. Wait another day 10. Wait another day 11. Wait another day 12. Panic 13. Investigate how to unschedule price increase and abort in-app event Mac App Review is actively harmful to the app ecosystem. Related
16 September
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
@rizzi I just updated to MacOS 27 and Reeder Classic was silently replaced by Reeder -- and all of my subscriptions are gone. Help? Related
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Happy macOS is updating soon so software starts acting quirky week to all who celebrate! Related
15 September
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Installed macOS 27 on a MacBook and I'm not sure if this is some kind of twisted joke or just incompetence. The contrast of window controls (for both active and inactive windows) is so bad that even a sugar-jolted 25-year old can tell. Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Our computers represent tiny tiny numbers in a form called 'subnormal'. They have a reputation for causing performance problems... but my results indicate that on recent processor architectures, they may only cause a problem for Intel. Related
14 September
Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
New Upgrade: The 27 OS releases have dropped. Jason has a review of macOS Golden Gate and Myke acts as the ambassador for Siri AI. And we've also got more reactions to just what makes the iPhone Duo so interesting. relay.fm
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Just posted on Six Colors: macOS 27 Golden Gate Review: Bridging the Tahoe gap sixcolors.com
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Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
Protip! folks running @OmarchyLinux on your spare intel MacBook, you can have @opencode 2 guide you through properly configuring your audio with https://t.co/ZLiKDw8gQb the default audio settings are quite odd, but you can make it as close as possible to what you had with MacOS! Related
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Mastodon You thought we'd stop at one OS review today? Nope. @johnvoorhees delivered. Our macOS 27 review: https://macstories.net/stories/macos-27-the-macstories-review/ And our watchOS 27 review: https://macstories.net/stories/watchos-27-the-macstories-review/ Happy reading 😎 Related
Bluesky You thought we'd stop at one OS review today? Nope. @johnvoorhees.macstories.net delivered. Our macOS 27 review: macstories.net/stories/maco... And our watchOS 27 review: macstories.net/stories/watc... Happy reading 😎 Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Apple design its own chips for its phones. The latest CPU is the A20 Pro. Geekbench is a benchmark with a database of results; you can run your own benchmarks and share your numbers with the world. In the last few days, we finally got some A20 Pro results and the numbers are impressive... reaching 4000 in single-core (one thread) performance. For comparison, the best that you can do with an x64 AMD or Intel processor is something like the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 at about 3,163 which would be somewhere between the A18 and A19. The A20 Pro is 25% faster on this benchmark than any AMD or Intel processo… benchmarks Related
9 September
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
interesting to see how Apple hardware adapts to AI era: - Reference Image (a digital negative): helps verify real unedited photos - Apple Watch: becomes an AI note taker through always-on processor & dedicated audio holding space Related
8 September
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
Hey @apple, 80% of these apps in the macOS top list are fake! Related
5 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: https://t.co/GvMDfD926E
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3 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
2 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
31 August
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
To show how much I care about performance, I just ordered the worst specced 2020 Intel MacBook Air I could find (i3, 1.1 GHz, 8 GB RAM). It is the last supported hardware for macOS 15, our min target for Superlogical. Going to optimize on it for worst-case behavior. Related
29 August
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
I love how many people are attaching to the "half-bounch" startup time metric. I used to do paid macOS dev ~20 years ago and most macOS devs I knew then used the bounce metric! Back then multiple bounces was the norm due to HDDs. One bounce really wasn't possible until SSDs. We've lost this obsession and its time to bring it back. startups Related
28 August
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
Quick Superlogical demo to end the week. This demo is just of the basic functionality, but I want to highlight just how FAST it is. There's a WHOLE lot more functionality already present and coming but I wanted to keep the demo short. But seriously, check out that speed. I'm showing the macOS app here and I get asked a lot so let me just say up front: its not macOS only. We're still figuring out exactly what platforms will be stable enough for the initial public release, but we're working on others. In particular, the web interface is very functional but I'll demo that another time (or someon… Related
26 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
PSA: do not use codex "locked use" capabilities right now. it is currently relying on unstable mac features and has completely locked me out of my macos keychain twice this week. thx @_chenglou for linking to apple developer forums acknowledging this is a "known bug". just avoid. ofc, would be nice to do everything in cloud, but cloud isn't there yet. Related
25 August
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
24 August
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
How do people use macOS with multiple desktops (workspaces)? Opening new windows or using the dock becomes so unpredictable as it jumps across the desktops. Related
21 August
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
18 August
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
14 August
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.
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But if you're digitizing the physical world, you're treating atoms like bits. And you're like, well, I know that CPU manipulates the bits. What manipulates atoms? That's manufacturing or digitized manufacturing.
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11 August
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
10 August
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
8 August
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
Ever since Xcode 26, SwiftUI previews haven't worked at all unless I disable sandboxing in my app. If I don't do that, I get this error: XOJITError: Could not create code file directory for session: Permission denied I keep hoping a new version of Xcode and/or macOS will fix it, but it's the same in the latest 27 betas. (Editor → Canvas → Use Legacy Previews Execution also doesn't fix it, but does change the error.) Apple folks: FB24222556 Related
29 July
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
25 July
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Memory-level parallelism: AMD is the king When your program asks for memory that is not in cache, the processor has to go to RAM. That trip costs on the order of 100 nanoseconds. On a 3 GHz core, that is about 300 cycles of doing nothing. Memory latency has not…
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17 July
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
15 June
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
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I've never liked Spotlight on macOS, and previously I used Alfred as a replacement. However, now I've discovered Raycast. Raycast is my primary mode of navigating through macOS, as I've bound the keyboard shortcut to
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Shottr makes manipulating screenshots a lot easier and nicer than the default screenshot functionality provided by macOS. My favorite feature from it is the ability to easily blur out text in my screenshots.
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Even when not docked, I still prefer an external mouse for most operations. I really love the Logitech MX Master 4 mouse. For me, it feels great to hold, and it also provides support for some macOS gestures like swiping up for mission control.
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randallwilk.dev
6 June
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
12 May
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
I added a ~90 minute demo video of using DotFriedRice. It covers configuring and installing it too. It's a niri / Arch desktop environment with modern CLI tools. The CLI set up works on any Debian / Arch based distro (WSL 2 included) and macOS! github.com
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11 May
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Typing is for suckers. Voice ftw. What are you using for dictating? I've been going back an forth between superwhisper and the built in MacOS one Also testing a few others like Tuna Related
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as slideshows, etc. More generally, imo audio is the human-preferred input to AIs but vision (images/animations/video) is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to vision, it is the 10-lane superhighway of information into brain. As AI improves, I think we'll see a progression that takes advantage: 1) raw text (hard… LLMs Related
29 April
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
18 March
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Just posted @marsedit 5.4 with native macOS Versions support, Share Extension improvements, and a bunch of bug fixes. redsweater.com
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12 March
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
5 February
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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The command palette that ships for macOS in Ghostty today is only very lightly modified from what Gemini produced for me in seconds.
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mitchellh.com
5 January
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
28 December 2025
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
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My go-to languages are TypeScript for web stuff, Go for CLIs and Swift if it needs to use macOS stuff or has UI. Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.
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steipete.me
1 December 2025
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
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Both OS have their flaws. macOS just works better for me and my workflow.
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stefanzweifel.dev
20 October 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
This year's PRGE haul: a Lost Treasures of Infocom box set, Music Construction Set, Pinball Construction Set, and of course EA's most famous franchise: Battlefield 6. No, just kidding: the Cut & Paste word processor. #retrocomputing Related
8 October 2025
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
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Nisus Writer Pro is a delightful word processor for the Mac. Not distracting or showy, it simply works great.
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seths.blog
17 September 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual…
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6 September 2025
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
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I use Things 3 extensively for keeping on top of to-dos. It's got to be one of the most well-designed macOS and iOS apps out there!
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31 July 2025
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
3 July 2025
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
3 April 2025
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
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Hammerspoon: To script macOS with Lua.
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19 November 2024
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
29 September 2024
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
20 July 2024
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
14 July 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
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Brew the package manager for macOS
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31 December 2023
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
2 August 2023
Designer and developer; created the Solarized colour scheme and the Kinkless task system that became OmniFocus.
2 April 2022
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
7 June 2021
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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Debian is a decent programming environment. It has some of the consistency properties like macOS, but fails unexpectedly.
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usesthis.com
24 January 2021
Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
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At my desk I use an iMac Pro, which I bought largely because I wanted a lot of processor power to speed up production of a lot of my podcasts.
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4 May 2020
Danish Mac developer; author of the TextMate text editor and founder of MacroMates.
10 December 2019
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
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I'm currently running macOS Mojave, backed up with both Time Machine and SuperDuper to an external drive and BackBlaze to the cloud.
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I'm currently running macOS Mojave, backed up with both Time Machine and SuperDuper to an external drive and BackBlaze to the cloud. Overkill maybe, but after a major drive crash a few years ago, I'm not taking any chances.
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20 June 2019
Professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego working on human-computer interaction and programming tools; creator of Python Tutor, the online code visualizer.
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On my laptop and desktop computers, I just have a Chrome web browser and terminal window open most of the time (I like iTerm2 for macOS).
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30 July 2018
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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