This month, Federico explains how he’s using his iPad Pro to manage an Intel NUC dedicated to his music collection, and John shares his philosophy about productivity systems and why most notes should be deleted and archived, not saved and curated....
Honeybadger: Your Secret Weapon for Exception, Uptime, and Cron Monitoring [Sponsor]
Honeybadger is your one-stop solution for error tracking that combines error monitoring, uptime monitoring, and cron monitoring into a single, simple-to-use platform. It’s the only service that combines all those elements into one elegant solution that has your back when you need it most.
If your production site goes down, the last thing you want is to hear about it first on Twitter or by email from unhappy customers. With Honeybadger, you know the instant a problem arises. The included uptime and cron monitoring also let you know when your external services are having issues or your background jobs go missing or silently fail.
What’s more, Honeybadger is easy to set up, taking just minutes, not hours. The service hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication libraries, and front-end JavaScript. Most installations are just a few lines of code. Honeybadger also includes a comprehensive online dashboard and context-rich reporting system that helps you diagnose and resolve issues quickly.
Honeybadger is a bootstrapped company built from the ground up to serve developers. They answer to you, not VCs, and their mission is straightforward: tame production and make you a better, more productive developer.
Honeybadger is used by tens of thousands of customers of all sizes, including eBay, DigitalOcean, heroku, thoughtbot, and even MacStories. Sign up for Honeybadger’s 15-day free trial today and join the growing list of companies whose developers swear by Honeybadger. There’s no credit card required to sign up, so you’ve got nothing to lose. Give Honeybadger a try and see how it feels to stop wasting time tailing logs and spend more time doing the development work you love.
Our thanks to Honeybadger for sponsoring MacStories this week.
In This Issue
Acollection ofMac screen recording apps, the second installment of Federico’s Obsidian series covering themes, the app’s mobile quick action and toolbar functionality, along with some of his favorite third-party plugins, John reveals the results of hisalways-on iPhone and iPadexperiments, plus the usual Links, App Debuts,a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming podcast...
Previously, On MacStories
CARROT Weather 5.3 Adds Smart Layouts and a Fun Weather Reports Feature Two Months with Apple’s New M1 iMac Apple Music to Livestream Sold-Out Atlanta Listening Event for Kanye West’s Next Album, DONDA New Tokyo level of Skate City Will Debut Alongside Skateboarding Becoming an Official Olympic Sport...
Interesting Links
Gallium nitride is the crystalline product of the metal gallium and nitrogen, which Christopher Mims explains for The Wall Street Journal is shrinking power adapters, powering LED screens, helping self-driving cars navigate, and pushing other technologies forward. (Link) Apple introduced anti-tracking email features at WWDC, and now, DuckDuckGo is doing something similar with its new...
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Next week on AppStories, Federico and John explore the possibility of an Apple app-only research workflow with the new features and design changes coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps this fall. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John cover John’s 2-month review of the M1 iMac, CARROT Weather 5.3, a Skate...
Tempo - The Minimalist Email Client for Mac [Sponsor]
Tempo takes the stress out of email by putting you in control of the process in a beautifully designed, minimalist app for the Mac and iOS. The secret to Tempo is right in its name: it puts you in charge of when you get messages. By scheduling messages to arrive in batches, you can work more efficiently and on a schedule that works for you.
Tempo’s customizable scheduling reduced the number of notifications you receive, which means fewer distractions. Paired with a handsome, sophisticated UI that dispenses with clutter to provide you with a focused writing environment, Tempo delivers with a simple UI backed by a rich feature set and Markdown compatibility.
The app allows you to connect up to five Gmail accounts and can be set up in just minutes. Decide when you want messages to arrive and then process messages in Batches.
Tempo also features Quick Replies, one-click unsubscribe from newsletters, a dedicated ‘To Do’ tab for following up later, separate sections for reminders, drafts, and newsletters, and a focus mode for concentrating on one message at a time. When you need to receive a response immediately outside your normal schedule, you can mark a thread as VIP to get notified as soon as a reply comes in.
Privacy is important to Tempo. Your data isn’t sold to anyone, and the app only tracks what’s necessary to deliver your messages, which it does anonymously. Tempo also removes pixel trackers from the messages it delivers.
Your time is better spent outside your email client. Try Tempo today by downloading the Mac app and iOS beta now.
Our thanks to Tempo for sponsoring MacStories this week.
In This Issue
John makes the case for experimenting with Shortcuts for Mac now,Federico kicks off a special series on his Obsidian setup,plus the usual Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStories podcast episodes....


