
Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook
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Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook

A terminal workspace that doesn't sacrifice simplicity for power. Features floating panes, layouts, multiplayer collaboration, plugins, and works in your browser.

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tar.gz files seem to include extra files starting with ._. When these are extracted on Linux, a bunch of errors are displayed.

Organize your notes as Markdown files. With native relationships, Git, and Claude Code integration. Free forever.

SpeakType — Privacy-first, offline voice dictation for macOS. Powered by WhisperKit AI, everything runs 100% locally on your Mac.

The Mac Studio M3 with 512GB of memory is an absurd amount of computer.

LM Studio 0.4.0 introduced llmster and the lms CLI. Here is how I set up Gemma 4 26B for local inference on macOS that can be used with Claude Code.

Tailscale now has a full windowed UI. Before that, our app had to tell you it was hidden by The Notch.
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.

I just got a new M5 Mac so here are all the terminal tools and setup I use, from ghostty, prezto, ripgrep, yazi, ...
I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the icons-in-menus haters […]

Step-by-step field note for running OpenCode with LM Studio locally using Qwen3.5 9B and 0.8B, including Telegram bot workflow, local config, and M1 performance tradeoffs.

A 5-20x faster experimental Homebrew alternative. Contribute to lucasgelfond/zerobrew development by creating an account on GitHub.

GUI for the CLI version of Tailscale for macOS. Contribute to Flyclops/tailscale-cli-gui development by creating an account on GitHub.

How I built MacThrottle, a menu bar app that tells me when my Mac is thermal throttling, and the journey to find the right macOS APIs.

How NSVisualEffectView renders blur effects under the hood, and building a custom material view from scratch using CABackdropLayer.

Works in fullscreen, on all your monitors, and has glorious splashes. One-time purchase for up to 5 devices.

I recently shipped anon-trivial Ghostty feature (unobtrusive macOS automatic updates)that waslargelydeveloped with AI.

A quick cli script to tell you if your usb-c cable is bad

Release notes for Ghostty 1.2.0, released on September 15, 2025.

A Jujutsu tutorial that requires no previous experience with Git or other version control systems.

This is an example of how you can get Claude code to debug with LLDB in a TMac session.

After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.

You can shell out to `cp -c` using `subprocess`, or you can make a `clonefile()` syscall using the `ctypes` library.

User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks

How I built Context—a native macOS SwiftUI app for debugging MCP servers—almost entirely with Claude Code, and what I learned about building with AI coding agents.

Proxyman is a native, high-performance HTTP debugging proxy app for macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Capture, inspect, and mock HTTP/HTTPS requests with ease. The best Charles Proxy and Fiddler alternative for developers.

jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.

Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available. - Ice - Menu Bar Manager

I recently switched from iTerm2 to Alacritty and in this video I show you everything I do to create a minimal, amazing & fast terminal setup with it on macOs. I've really enjoyed this change. Hope you guys enjoy the video!

macOS system monitor in your menu bar. Contribute to exelban/stats development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows

Keeping my laptop clean by developing in a virtual machine

Gifox for Mac is a simple GIF maker app to create high-quality animated GIFs from screen and videos – record, convert, capture, edit, compress, optimize.

I run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, giving it full system access. Let me show you a new way of approaching computers.

My tools and how I use them.
A short experiment with Python, ImageMagick, and iconutil.

Today I learned that, since macOS High Sierra onwards, you can move a window by starting to drag anywhere on it.