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The author lost their phone and used Claude to generate findphone, a command-line tool that tracks nearby Bluetooth devices by signal strength, demonstrating how AI can quickly create custom utilities.

Recommend a free and open-source macOS tool Maya that can turn iPhone screen recordings into beautiful promotional videos with device frames, animations, and zoom effects, comparable to paid products like matte.

Nader Dabit announces Devin Cloud Agents can now build and ship a real macOS release end-to-end in a real Mac environment, and @VivaLaCrowe celebrates the launch, inviting the community to build with it.

Norbert Kozsir describes how he built a 2D canvas workspace prototype at FlutterFlow, leading to the product Campus, a free macOS app that lets you place terminals, apps, and browsers side by side to reduce context switching in agentic coding workflows.

Mference, a Swift + Metal inference engine, now supports Inkling-Small 276B-A12B, running it at ~2.9 tok/s on under 10GB memory, enabling large MoE models on consumer Apple hardware.

Birth is an open-source macOS startup item manager that centrally manages user-level, global-level, system daemon, and login items, displays code signing identities, flags disguised system signatures, and supports one-click disable/removal and search location.

Liquid AI announces a partnership with MacPaw to bring on-device AI to Mac users, designing specialized Liquid Foundation Models for macOS AI assistance.

Nehir is a new open-source scrolling tiling window manager for macOS, built on the Niri column layout paradigm, featuring workspace management, multi-monitor support, and IPC control via nehirctl.

A recipe and patch set for building GNU Emacs on macOS with a native Liquid Glass frame effect inspired by Ghostty, adding NSGlassEffectView support and new frame parameters for transparency and blur.

An essay exploring the surreal experience of installing apps on macOS via DMG files, and celebrating the creative design of 'drag to Applications' Finder windows.

Developer Jeff Johnson investigates why Apple's Mail app contacts iCloud even when iCloud Mail is disabled and sending from non-iCloud accounts, finding cloudd and nsurlsessiond connections to gateway.icloud.com for CloudKit operations.

A GitHub patch allows running DeepSeek V4 Flash in LM Studio on 128GB Macs by sideloading antirez's llama.cpp fork, working around struct-layout drift, decoding splits, and code-signing issues.

Kakehashi is an experimental userspace that translates macOS ARM64 binaries to run on Linux aarch64 by loading Mach-O files, mapping a freestanding libSystem, and translating BSD syscalls. It currently supports running tools like 7-Zip and curl, including multithreaded operations, on Linux ARM via Docker or UTM.

A developer showcases Mference, a new inference engine that runs MoE models like DeepSeek-V4-Flash on just ~5.3GB of memory by streaming experts from SSD, with a native Mac app and OpenAI-compatible server.

AgentMicro shows live Codex task status directly in your macOS menu bar, keeping developers informed without switching windows.

Google's Chrome 150 on macOS introduces a 'zero window restart' mechanism that installs updates while the browser runs in the background, and the company is working on 'dynamic patching' to enable security patches without a restart.

Devin Cloud Agents now support macOS environments with Xcode and iOS simulator, enabling iOS app development in the cloud without a Mac.

docktor is a tool that fills your Mac's dock with widgets, utilizing wasted side space.

Qwen Scribe is an open-source tool for private, on-device transcription and dictation on Apple Silicon Macs, using Qwen3-ASR models via MLX. It supports drag-and-drop audio/video transcoding, language detection, SRT export, and system-wide dictation with a HUD.

LookInside is an open-source Mac app for live inspection of UIKit, AppKit, and SwiftUI views, layers, frames, and properties in iOS and macOS apps. It builds on the original Lookin project.