10 entries
Should native apps have hover at all? Raycast says desktop apps shouldn't. Apple's real position: hover shouldn't be the proof that something is clickable.
Adding Agent Skills to Paste, my macOS clipboard app. MCP was too heavy; I followed Surge's Unix socket + CLI + Skill split so agents talk to the running app.
From books and videos to learning with an Agent. Hand-crafting everything without AI is pointless — AI Native Learning is how you learn to build software now.
From Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw: two renames in three months, 512 vulnerabilities, 130k+ exposed instances. Why speed-first AI slop was never built to last.
Old software will never get MCP, but macOS has two ancient corridors: AppleScript and URL schemes. Text in, text out — exactly the agent's mother tongue. What's missing was never capability, just a manual.
Every agent tutorial tells you to write a DESIGN.md. I wrote one seriously for a month. Verdict: the version that describes 'what it is' is doomed; only the version that explains 'why' and 'don't touch that' survives.
Ten years ago everyone said the iPad would replace the Mac; five years ago, the phone. Then the AI era arrived and the Mac's value went up instead: Apple Silicon, Unix, and thirty years of automation legacy — three old tickets that all happen to match the Agent's frequency.
Ghostty extracted its core into libghostty, a C library, demoting the GUI to a 'shell.' One core, many shells — and the Windows port finally has a real path. Also: why Zig, of all languages.
Same request: the agent's React version works on the first try, the SwiftUI version doesn't even compile. Not because the model is bad — because SwiftUI's API churned through three generations and the model's memory is always stuck a year behind.
Once generation costs nothing, the scarce skill is no longer 'being able to make it' but 'knowing which one is good.' Taste is the one asset this era can't average away.
Screenshot, annotate, record, and OCR without fighting the system screenshot UI.
Keyboard-first launcher that replaces Spotlight for apps, windows, snippets, and AI.
Native Mac utility for cleanup, uninstall leftovers, disk analysis, and live system status.
Calm, structured task manager that stays out of the way until you need it.
