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Today we mourn the loss of the Mac Pro 🙏The Power Macintosh G3 of my high school english classroom65Scribe's Power Macintosh G5 video explains it allThe end of the "trash can" - Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro LivesSean Wolter is your host and editor for this episode.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're joined by Kevin Donnelly to talk about engineering management topics!Kevin's presentation at the last NSCoderThe silly Financial Times GDP chart Sean mentionedLorraine Boissoneault's upcoming book Body Weather.David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're rating Apple's hardware and software performance for 2025, following the format of Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card.David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're talking aboutXcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic codingRemember to turn on the new agentic features!Continuing development of Sean's Contacts app replacementSteve Yegge's The AI Vampire and the promise of industrialization/automationExistential career dread in the face of automationDavid Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're talking aboutThe "Star Trek Economy", the hedonism treadmill, and universal basic incomehttps://staygold.ushttps://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/What's the point of work? And economic and technological growth?https://doughnuteconomics.orgAnd a lot of rambling. This may be our least structured episode so far. Let us know what you think!David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're talking aboutOpenClaw (previously known as Clawdbot)Introducing OpenClawA Bot that Scams People [Michael Reeves youtube]Clawd Bought a Car!Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw is a security nightmare [youtube]Is it possible to avoid AI in software development?https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-aihttps://syntropic.xyz/posts/2026-01-22-the-saas-layer-will-dissolve/That David Foster Wallace quotation I couldn't rememberLosing faith in Applehttps://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/29/amazon-melania-spendinghttps://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/28/tim-cook-memohttps://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/27/ceo-capturedhttps://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.htmlHypercritical Podcast about Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography: "Episode 42: The Wrong Guy"David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're talking aboutAirTags 2.0AI AI AI AI AIClawdbot is now called MoltbotMacstories' Clawdbot articleMore about ClawdbotMaggie Appleton's coverage and critique of Gastown10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agentsMore AI!Sean's new old Contacts AppDavid Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're talking aboutApple Creative Studio - will we buy it? what does it mean?Apple Home (formerly known as HomeKit) and home automation adventuresAnd a diversion into data privacy and security in cameras and TVsDavid Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're talking aboutWhen to refactorJoel SpolskyNever Rewrite podcastSome of our worst job experiencesA first try with AI. Sean starts on his MacOS Contacts replacement app.David Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!

Today we're talking aboutOur software role modelsHaxies and UnsanityDelicious Monster and Wil ShipleyHyperjeff's Mac OS X pageEllen ShapiroMonument ValleyRiley TestusImposter syndromeOne of us is so frustrated with Tahoe he's starting a new appDavid Vision and Sean Wolter are your hosts.NSCoder Chicago is a monthly meetup. We'd love to see you in person! https://www.meetup.com/NSCoder-Chicago/ Are you a Mac or iOS dev in Chicago? Would you like to be on our podcast? Get in touch!