Tech, mostly Apple, from Lex Friedman.
10 pieces tagged “Mac”
Everyone loves the OLED panel and the lighter build. Everyone mocks the name. And nobody’s sure they’ll touch the screen much.
The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display reviews landed this morning, and I read a stack of them. Partly so you don’t have to, and partly so I can keep making fun of the name. And also because I didn’t get a review unit. The laptop ships Friday, starting at…
A menu bar grid for dragging files to folders, apps, and actions on the Mac.
Drag and drop and the Mac go together like chocolate and peanut butter, or Philadelphia Eagles fandom and wild emotional swings by season. With drag and drop, as every Mac user knows, you click on a thing, drop it in another spot, and… something happens. Drag…
MacSparky: I’m hearing from a lot of folks contemplating upgrades. These days those questions are not taken on lightly. With the arrival of RAMageddon, upgrading is no trivial thing. You can actually buy a Mac Studio now specc’d up to 512 GB that will set you…
It’s a name that rolls right off a forked tongue
It is, in fact, not a MacBook Studio. It’s the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display. I don’t think I’m being shortsighted or quick to complain when I point out that this is one of the more terribly named Apple products in recent memory. Even the all-caps…
A couple years back, I gave up Mac laptop life. This was after years of heavy Apple laptop usage. But I decided I wanted my work to be tethered to my home office, where my laptop gave me freedom to work everywhere — at the dinner table, while on the couch…
Apple dropped three announcements Tuesday: a new iMac with M6, a new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, and a sizable update to Apple Creator Studio. Here’s the quick version of each. Apple unveils new iMac with M6 The 24-inch iMac moves to the M6, with up to a…
A read-only Mac app for the READMEs, specs, and other .md files you encounter
I think in plain text. I write in plain text and html. And sometimes, when I have to, I use Markdown. I’m not alone. Markdown has exploded. When I work with Claude Code, it leaves Markdown files everywhere: plans, specs, READMEs, notes to its future self.…
A read-later app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac built around turning pages instead of scrolling
I don’t know who invented the “read it later” app concept. I know I’ve used and loved several apps for later reading over the years. The read it later craze was at one point so frothy that my pal Dan Moren and I created a joke bookmarklet called Read It Now.…
63 apps, many of them free, all of them thoughtful utilities
Sindre Sorhus makes a slew of apps. His site puts the count at 63. Most are simple, which I mean as a legitimate compliment: They’re singularly focused, do what you expect, and are straightforward to use. Sorhus is a full-time open-source developer. He quit…
Jason Snell: Still, what a computer! Even the performance of the base M6 model is more than enough for most computing tasks that regular people will ever need. If you invested in an external display a few years ago, most likely that display is still going…
