Federico Viticci

1 week ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

Over the course of my career, I’ve had three distinct moments in which I saw a brand-new app and immediately felt it was going to change how I used my computer – and they were all about empowering people to do more with their devices. I had that feeling the first time I tried Editorial, the scriptable Markdown text editor by Ole Zorn. I knew right away when two young developers told me about their automation app, Workflow, in 2014.

1 week ago | machash.com | Federico Viticci

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2 weeks ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

Club MacStories: Weekly and monthly newsletters via email and the web that are brimming with apps, tips, automation workflows, longform writing, early access to the MacStories Unwind podcast, periodic giveaways, and more; Club MacStories+: Everything that Club MacStories offers, plus an active Discord community, advanced search and custom RSS features for exploring the Club’s entire back catalog, bonus columns, and dozens of app discounts; Club Premier: All of the above and AppStories+, an...

2 weeks ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

I received a top-of-the-line Mac Studio (M3 Ultra, 512 GB of RAM, 8 TB of storage) on loan from Apple last week, and I thought I’d use this opportunity to revive something I’ve been mulling over for some time: more short-form blogging on MacStories in the form of brief “notes” with a dedicated Notes category on the site. Expect more of these “low-pressure”, quick posts in the future.

1 month ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

Fascinating analysis by Allen Pike on how, beyond traditional chatbot interactions, the technology behind LLMs can be used in other types of user interfaces and interactions: While chat is powerful, for most products chatting with the underlying LLM should be more of a debug interface – a fallback mode – and not the primary UX. So, how is AI making our software more useful, if not via chat? Let’s do a tour.