Workbench for iOS is in public beta
Earlier this week, I released Workbench for the Mac, the best (if I dare say so) way to use Claude
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MacStories Best New App of 2025
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Three fresh nonogram puzzles every day, in your browser.
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Chapterize
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A few updates to Workbench
I launched Workbench yesterday and the response has been fantastic. Thank you to the many people who tried it and
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+ How AI is pushing the open web into closed platforms
People are still creative – they will not stop making things. Where they make those things is an open question.
Workbench is the best developer tool I've ever made (in beta now)
Agentic coding has grown quite a bit since I started dabbling in this two years ago. We used to request
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Pro workflows benefit from touch too
Jason Snell: Quick thoughts about the new MacBook Pro
one portion of Apple’s intro video showed a developer using Xcode to test an iOS app, and they were touching the app in the iOS simulator. That… is a really cool use case. For the first time, developers will be able to touch their apps
Fixing Letterboxd's cast list on the web
I love Letterboxd, but I hate how they show you the cast on the web app. Here's the
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Touch is the second most exciting part of the new MacBook Pro
A few days ago, Apple released a new product: a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen. But I think they actually released two things, and to understand what’s going on, you need to distinguish between them.
The first, of course, is a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen. That’s a first for the Mac, which