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Find My Showdown, Hyperspace, Four Thousand Weeks

Stephen Robles — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Lexy Savvides pits Find My against Google's network, ATP digs into Apple's price increases, the book that reframed how I think about time, John Siracusa's disk-space app, and Holst's Jupiter.

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I lost my stuff on purpose. Who found it faster?
https://youtu.be/8DvGX96Obh8?is=IJjz38TkacpQt8gI

The Chart Is Terrifying — Accidental Tech Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/accidental-tech-podcast/id617416468?i=1000774400611

You're Not Ready For These iPhone Shortcuts
https://youtu.be/zUKCL70V-R4

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals — Oliver Burkeman
https://amzn.to/446h9yA

Hyperspace: Reclaim Disk Space — John Siracusa
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperspace-reclaim-disk-space/id6739505345?mt=12

Holst: The Planets — Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-planets-suite-jupiter/267986844?i=267987026

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Slate EV Truck, Apple Raises Prices, Toy Story 5

Stephen Robles — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:00:00 -0400

First look at the $25,000 Slate EV Truck, why Apple just raised prices across the lineup, a plain-language Mac utility, and what Toy Story 5 says about our screens.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day – New Trailer (4K)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bIsvRcPv0

Slate Truck First Look: The $25,000 Modular EV!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0t7wpkFc6U

Can Patreon Fight Fire With Social Media Fire? — Decoder with Nilay Patel
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-patreon-fight-fire-with-social-media-fire/id1011668648?i=1000773706490

Apple Explains Why It Raised Prices on These 14 Products Today — MacRumors
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-explains-why-it-raised-prices/

Apple Announces Significant Price Increases for MacBooks, iPads, More — 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipad-more/

Substage — A Natural Language Command Bar for Your Finder Windows
https://selkie.design/substage/

Toy Story 5 — Disney Movies
https://movies.disney.com/toy-story-5

How  Vision Pro Immersive Content is Made, Harmony Remotes, Tech News Moves

Stephen Robles — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:00:00 -0400

A behind-the-scenes look at how Apple builds those immersive visionOS environments, Version History episode on the Harmony remote, how Australia's social media ban is actually playing out, a fun shortcut for yesterday's sports scores, and shake-ups happening in tech journalism.

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How  Vision Pro Immersive Environments Are Made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIqQSs6R-6Y

Harmony remote: Control freak — Version History
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/harmony-remote-control-freak/id1840983742?i=1000772624848

How Australia's social media ban has affected families six months on — The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/15/how-australia-social-media-ban-has-affected-families-six-months-on

Get Yesterday's Sports Scores
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/86378520115643f0b0feca437620d2d8

Eater, The Verge and SB Nation Sold to Penske Media — The Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/eater-verge-sbnation-sold-penske-media-1236624828/

The Siri Demo Apple Didn't Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtWNGnPj-kM

The New Siri is Actually Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3lL68hNK4

Apple Vision Pro Future, Task App, Viticci's 10 Years at WWDC

Stephen Robles — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Justin Ryan asks Apple if it's done with Vision Pro, Primary Technology was LIVE from Apple Park, Federico Viticci's reflective WWDC essay, and the beautifully designed Tasks app I'm about to try.

MacVince Channel, Gruber on TBPN, Designed in California

Stephen Robles — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:00:00 -0400

MacVince is making incredible YouTube content about apps, John Gruber guesting on TBPN, the Kickstarter for Mike Hurley and Jason Snell's new Apple history podcast, the $10 Mac app I use to grab text from anything, and Amy Poehler's great hang with Judge Judy.

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MacVince's New Mac Apps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Zn0NVoG2g&t

Gruber on TBPN
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blue-origin-explosion-enterprise-ai-hits-spending-limits/id1772360235?i=1000770241038&t=1753

TBPN Episode on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/live/sQVwLUxFdMY?si=EXKp-3QZS64Y1Idp&t=1998

Designed in California: An Apple History Podcast
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/designedincalifornia/designed-in-california-an-apple-history-podcast

TextSniper
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textsniper/id1528890965?mt=12

Judge Judy Sheindlin — Good Hang with Amy Poehler
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-hang-with-amy-poehler/id1795483480?i=1000724534033

Bob Ross × Mozart × Ferrari

Stephen Robles — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Ferrari's first EV designed by Jony Ive, Sundar Pichai on Google's AI future, a seven-year-old video about the word you say every day, and a new RSS reader worth trying.

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Ferrari Luce Interior — MKBHD
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Reu1WS3BhM

How Sundar Pichai Is Rethinking Google for the AI Era — Decoder with Nilay Patel
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-patel/id1011668648?i=1000769616958

Focused — with David Sparks and Mike Schmitz

Note: My Episode releases Tuesday, June 2nd

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/focused/id1138055739

Why we say "OK" — Vox
https://youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs

Amethyst
https://amethyst.news

Inventory Shortcut
https://shortcut.bot/3RA2Pvb

Inventory Shortcut Demo
https://youtube.com/shorts/8c9hMTDAZr0

Bob Ross × Mozart × Fortnite
https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5HAEgkIaRM

Creating vs Consuming, Arctic RV, Making iPhone Apps on iPhone

Stephen Robles — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400

A YouTube gem on making instead of consuming, the Antarctic Snow Cruiser disaster, an Apple Vision Pro doc on Real Madrid, the social app that unifies Bluesky and Mastodon, and Google brings vibe coding to Android phones.

Antarctica's Secrets, I Am Not a Robot, Do You Hate AI?

Stephen Robles — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:55:50 -0400

Cleo Abram goes to Antarctica, Jonah Hill's interview on SmartLess, Joanna Stern's new book I Am Not a Robot is out, a few great Mac apps, and a commencement address clip reacting to AI.

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What's Really Under Antarctica - Cleo Abram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfGEMCb6BQU

Watch the SmartLess Live Show with Jonah Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCvlPFnOC0o

SmartLess Live with Jonah Hill on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jonah-hill-live/id1521578868?i=1000766700415

I Am Not a Robot
https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Robot-Almost-Everything/dp/0063446618

Contextly App
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/contextly-notes/id6762497168

Gnome - Share GIFs on a Mac
https://lexfriedman.com/gnome/

Today Menu Bar App
https://sindresorhus.com/today

UFC Commencement Video - Cabel Sasser on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/cabel.panic.com/post/3mlk75u3om22e

Hannah Fry on Claude, Acquired's Starbucks Story, Animated Earth

Stephen Robles — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Hannah Fry tests what AI agents can really do, the founding story of Starbucks on Acquired, the rise of clip farms, massive new data center debacle, and the Earth like no one has seen.

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Hannah Fry on Claude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw

Acquired: Starbucks with Howard Schultz
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?i=1000657758174

The Clippening — The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/report/920005/social-media-clipping-podcasts-clavicular-marketing-mrbeast

Claude and Grok as Roommates — 512 Pixels
https://512pixels.net/2026/05/claude-and-grok-roommates/

Hovercraft — Sandwich Vision
https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft

Earth GIF from Artemis II — Hank Green
https://youtu.be/OdO_g1S_MBU?si=9-QyFTfIZN_2eGjC

AI Chatbots IRL, Software Brain, Vision Pro Rumors

Stephen Robles — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400

John Oliver tackles AI chatbots, Nilay Patel on the AI backlash, swirling Vision Pro and MagSafe rumors, a fun wallpaper shortcut, and my take on actually useful AI.

New Things, Hans Zimmer, Tim Cook Leadership Lesson

Stephen Robles — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0400

Joanna Stern launched her "New Things," a look inside Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios, Jason's great commentary on Tim Cook, and on retiring from content creation (not me).

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Why I Quit The Wall Street Journal To Start This YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd2Dyr0m3BI

Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXOLfijQzQc

Inside Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios — Twenty Thousand Hertz
https://www.20k.org/episodes/hans-zimmers-remote-control

Community Letter from Tim - Apple

https://www.apple.com/community-letter-from-tim/

Tim Cook’s Farewell Letter Just Revealed His Most Important Leadership Habit

https://apple.news/ADYipKBtITUKNC-wuMSx6jw

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I'm Retiring… Gerald Undone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqNa6Xa3Ns

Mythos, Capture, and AT&T

Stephen Robles — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:19:53 -0400

What's the story on Mythos AI from Anthropic, a fascinating AT&T history lesson, a must-read Sam Altman profile, and the best app I’m using to save everything.

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