29 September 2026
The best longform essays, month by month
Hand-picked essays from each month, chosen from everything our Ideas & Longform sources published. Standalone essays only, no roundups, with the method published.
29 September 2026
The best longform essays of September 2026
Fifteen essays worth an evening, from Aeon, Longreads, Psyche, Public Domain Review and seven more, chosen by hand out of 1,129 published in September 2026.
26 September 2026 · updated 13 October 2026
Hidden Bar not working on macOS 27? What broke, and the fix
v1.11 shipped as the sandboxed App Store build by mistake, so it hid nothing on macOS 27. v1.11.1 fixes it. Plus Bartender, Thaw, Ice and Dozer by last ship date.
26 September 2026
The Apple press, measured
What nine Mac news sites load when you open them. Six carry two ad domains or fewer; the heaviest carries 58. All nine named, with the method and the limits.
26 September 2026
The best RSS feeds in 2026, measured rather than scraped
Feeds scored on editorial quality, ad restraint and independence, in 13 categories. Copy the URLs straight off the page, or take a category as OPML.
26 September 2026
Mac ticker apps: stock, news, RSS and crypto
22 Mac ticker apps with the date each last shipped, checked against Apple and GitHub. Prices and crypto are healthy. News tickers are almost all abandoned.
30 August 2026
Signed, notarized, and silently unauthorized: the macOS provisioning trap
Our ShazamKit feature worked in every debug build and failed in every shipped one. Why Developer ID apps need an embedded provisioning profile for App Services, the two xcodebuild flags that fix it, and the zsh builtin that faked the logs.
30 August 2026 · updated 26 September 2026
The State of Reading the News 2026
We loaded 890 news sites in a real browser and counted what came with them. Mass-reach sites run a median 39 third-party domains. The indie tier runs 8.
30 August 2026 · updated 26 September 2026
The best Mac apps in 2026, by an indie Mac developer
macOS is most of the way there. Ten apps that finish it, each with the gap it closes. No affiliate links, no paid placements, and the one we make says so.
15 August 2026 · updated 31 August 2026
How the Signal 500 is measured: method, weights and what is judgement
How every Signal 500 source is scored: loaded in a real browser with the cookie banner accepted, ad entities and third parties counted, layout shift and reach measured. Which dimensions are measured, which are judgement, and the published weights.
8 August 2026 · updated 30 August 2026
FeedsBar vs menu bar RSS apps, readers and X: an honest comparison
How FeedsBar differs from menu bar RSS apps, full RSS readers and following news on X, written by the people who make it. A private, one-time-purchase macOS ticker with topic orbs. For the wider category, see our survey of every Mac ticker app.
7 August 2026 · updated 8 August 2026
A short history of the ticker: from Edison to your desktop
The stock ticker, the Times Square zipper, the Nasdaq tower and the news crawl that never left after 2001, and what changes when you choose what runs across it.