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
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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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
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The iPad says hello.
🎙️ Apple finally did it
I didn't know what to write, so I decided to just talk into the mic for 10 minutes about my feelings after Apple finally actually did what I knew they'd always do: release a Mac with a touch screen.
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The radically more expensive iPad mini
I've been borderline fixated on the cost of the iPad mini for the past few years. The price has been creeping up, and every rumor about the next-gen models always suggested they would get even more premium (and bring bigger price tags).
This fixation got another hit of dopamine today as Apple
🎙️ Minis and Mastodons
* The 2026 iPad Mini
* The 2012 original iPad Mini
* Community - Marco Arment
* Boost more cool shit
* @matt_birchler@mastodon.social
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The computer did what we told it to do. Eek!
Hank Green on Threads
I feel very alone in the way I see the hugging face hack which is that openAI trained a bunch of super effective hacker bots to act like the only thing that mattered in the world was winning a hacking challenge and then gave them hacker tools, removed a bunch of
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Boost more cool shit
FlohGro in response to my post asking if we're happy with Mastodon being an ever-shrinking social network: Be Generous With Boosts
No. I joined Mastodon in the same first wave that Matt Birchler describes, and I've enjoyed it every day since. At the same time, it's sad to
I spent money on music in 2026
Last year, it really dawned on me how streaming music is basically socially-approved piracy. Unless you're an extremely successful artist, the payouts are so paltry, we may as well be pirating music. As such, I committed in 2026 to buying the music that I started listening over the course of this year,
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Passkeys are a trap. No they're not!
Shot: Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.
Like the Trojan Horse, passkeys are legitimately elegant on the surface, but there is something troubling inside.
Chaser: Passkeys Are Not a Trap
The post holds up TOTP as "already" a great solution. TOTP is better than a password alone, absolutely, but it has
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X has all the jerks
Lex Friedman (on what has to be the best new tech blog of 2026) writes I can’t believe we’re still arguing over whether X is for jerks, which you should just go read:
People can post wherever they want to post. I’m not trying to dictate where John spends his time online.
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