New benefit for my Membership program: Discounts! Now you can get up to 50% off an annual subscription for select partner apps: matthewcassinelli.com/new-member-b...

New Member Benefit: App Discounts! 50% Off Annual Subscriptions – Matthew Cassinelli

As part of my membership program, you can now get discounts on subscriptions to select partner App Store apps – sign up today.

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iOS 27 is finally out via public beta! I wrote on @verge about how much Siri has been impressing me, but why Apple needs to court developers (looking mostly @google) to truly make it work this time. For real on god. www.theverge.com/e/964714 h/t @matthewcassinelli.bsky.social for the interview!

Hello folks – I have sponsorship slots available for upcoming weeks in July 🗓️ I'll be pushing audiences towards my Shortcuts Library when the Public Beta launches – good time to lock in for that week and beyond: matthewcassinelli.com/partnerships

Sponsorships – Matthew Cassinelli

Sponsorships are available for MatthewCassinelli.com and my associated media properties. The audience is technical, engaged, and passionate about Apple platforms, personal automation, development, and...

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Shortcuts Toolbox is the management layer Apple never built – a complete toolkit for managing and extending your Shortcuts workflow. My thanks to Shortcuts Toolbox for sponsoring my Shortcuts Library this week 🙏

Shortcuts Toolbox: What if the Shortcuts app had a Shortcuts app? [Sponsor] – Matthew Cassinelli

Shortcuts Toolbox is the management layer Apple never built. Understand your dependencies, schedule complex workflows, compose self-contained shortcuts, and back up your whole library — with optional AI when you want it.

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Hello. I posted every App Intents video link on my blog. That is all. matthewcassinelli.com/wwdc26-sessi...

WWDC26 Sessions: Every App Intents & Siri AI video – Matthew Cassinelli

Check out this list of links for every App Intents session from WWDC26 off the AI and Machine Learning playlist from Apple.

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Here's more detail about my Siri AI Automators meetup series, starting in Portland: I am planning events in LA, San Francisco, and possibly Seattle. With a key sponsor, I'll fly anywhere in US and host an event in your city.

Join Me for the Siri AI Automators meetup in Portland – Matthew Cassinelli

Hello friends – I am hosting a free Siri AI Automators meetup this Thursday in Portland, Oregon, and you’re invited! First Siri AI Automators meetup in Portland Join us to discuss new Siri updates, improvements to Apple Intelligence, and how App Intents—the API that powers Shortcuts—is an integral connection between your app and the Apple […]

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Shoutout to @mgorbach.name for the App Intents section of this WWDC Special Presentation:

Inside Apple Intelligence: App Intents (Special Presentation at WWDC26) – Matthew Cassinelli

During a special presentation titled Inside Apple Intelligence & Xcode, App Intents Engineer Michael Gorbach spoke for 16 minutes about App Intents and what it means for Siri AI.

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“Open the Siri app along the Left Third” 🙇🏻‍♂️ www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a7...

Federico Viticci@viticci.macstories.net · 2mo ago

Great news for iPad power users: iPadOS 27 lets you automate window placement and size with Shortcuts. I wrote about it and shared a proof-of-concept shortcut that can move and resize any frontmost window. Have fun! www.macstories.net/notes/ipados...

Portlanders! I am running the Siri AI Automators meetup this Thursday discuss the new updates. I'm hosting in my office building across from Powell's – if there's more interest than capacity, I'll move to a larger venue: luma.com/z6gbu7tb

Siri AI Automators meetup (Portland) · Luma

Welcome to the first Portland edition of the Siri AI Automators meetup! This event was previously held during Apple's WWDC25 and WWDC26 week as part of…

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Portlanders! I am running the Siri AI Automators meetup this Thursday discuss the new updates. I'm hosting in my office building across from Powell's – if there's more interest than capacity, I'll move to a larger venue: luma.com/z6gbu7tb

Siri AI Automators meetup (Portland) · Luma

Welcome to the first Portland edition of the Siri AI Automators meetup! This event was previously held during Apple's WWDC25 and WWDC26 week as part of…

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I'm hosting the Apple Intelligence Automators meetup in exactly one week – I hope to see you there! My thanks to Apple for featuring it on their WWDC Community Events page 🙏

Solid discounts on these bundles (and other Warner Bros movies): matthewcassinelli.com/apple-t...

✨ The APPLE INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATORS MEETUP is back at #CommunityKit! 🧠 Talk shop on Siri, App Intents, Shortcuts and more 🎙️ Join @matthewcassinelli.bsky.social and fellow automators ⚡ Get ready for what’s new and what’s coming next 🎟️ Sign up today: luma.com/dnpnqonr

Apple Intelligence Automators Meetup at CommunityKit · Luma

Join Apple Intelligence Automators What: Free meetup the day after the keynote as part of CommunityKit right next to Apple Park during WWDC. Where: Residence…

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Codex for ChatGPT is out, which lets you manage threads on your Mac from mobile. I put together simple shortcuts to jump right in, as well as make sure the Mac app is always open:

Codex for ChatGPT launches with Create Task action for Shortcuts – Matthew Cassinelli

Open Codex in ChatGPT, start a new chat, or make sure the app is open over SSH – check out my new set of shortcuts for Codex.

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I have a few more slots available for sponsors. Good opportunity to get your app/service in front of an enthusiastic audience of 100+ devs the day after the Apple keynote:

Matthew Cassinelli@matthewcassinelli.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Developers – I'm hosting Apple Intelligence Automators at WWDC again and just opened sponsorships. There's room for two lead sponsors and four community sponsors: matthewcassinelli.com/partnerships...

Developers – I'm hosting Apple Intelligence Automators at WWDC again and just opened sponsorships. There's room for two lead sponsors and four community sponsors: matthewcassinelli.com/partnerships...

Sponsor Apple Intelligence Automators

Sponsor the largest CommunityKit meetup the day after WWDC.

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Why doesn’t Bluesky have an iPad app yet?

You probably shouldn't do this. I really like Claude Code in iMessage, but I hate its permission prompts. So, I figured out how to automate them with Shortcuts. Here's how: www.macstories.net/tutorials/au...

Automatically Approve Claude Code Permissions in iMessage with Shortcuts

Let me start by saying that you probably shouldn't do this. I've been having a surprisingly good time using Claude Code via its new iMessage channel (which is part of my attempt to recreate OpenClaw w...

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Ask, and you shall receive. Claude is adding a Medium widget less than 24 hours after I asked them to add one:

Claude is Adding a Medium Widget (After I Asked For It) – Matthew Cassinelli

After tweeting my wish for a medium widget for Claude, Anthropic Mobile Product Manager Robert Bye made it happen in under 24 hours.

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🚨 #WWDC26 is coming! You know what that means: ✈️ Time to clear the runway. 📆 We're back and we'll share more soon! 💻 In the meantime, we’ve got work to do. 👀 communitykit.social

Tasks, the highly-customizable todo list and kanban app, has added a robust suite of Shortcuts actions for the app:

In the past month, I've spoken over 86K words to my Mac using Monologue, a smart dictation app. Highly recommended – this is the biggest change to my workflow in years

Apple's smart home display isn't coming until the fall, but developers can ready now with this session – Design Interactive Snippets:

Apple’s Smart Home Display Now Coming This Fall: Here’s How to Get Ready Now » – Matthew Cassinelli

Mark Gurman has reported Apple's smart home display won't ship until the fall to debut alongside the new Siri features – here's the developer session you can watch now to get prepared.

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I built Claude Code Remote, an advanced companion shortcut for Claude Code that lets you type or dictate requests from your iPhone. Except…I didn't build it. My upcoming generative AI system did. And it showed me the future of Shortcuts automation. My story: www.macstories.net/club/claude-...

Claude Code Remote: A Companion Shortcut for Claude Code…Which Was Generated by AI

The Shortcuts Corner section of MacStories Weekly has been a staple of the newsletter for almost a decade at this point. With today’s 500th (!) issue of MacStories Weekly, I thought I’d share a glimps...

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Apple is Hiring a Shortcuts Tech Lead Manager: matthewcassinelli.com/apple-is-hir...

Apple is Hiring a Shortcuts Tech Lead Manager – Matthew Cassinelli

Apple is hiring a new Tech Lead Manager for the Shortcuts team – an intriguing role (located in the San Francisco Bay Area).

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If you're into Apple Home, check out my guest spot on HomeKit Insider talking all things Home Automation: matthewcassinelli.com/guest-spot-h...

Guest spot — HomeKit Insider: Integrating Apple Home & Siri Shortcuts – Matthew Cassinelli

I had the pleasure of joining Andrew O'Hara on the HomeKit Insider podcast to break down the differences between Home Automations, Personal Automations, and Shortcuts.

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@defenders.org Do you have policies for how your volunteers engage with the public? Alexander Rhyson just snidely remarked “You seem nice” when we didn’t interact with him and acted like he was being friendly when I asked him, and was indignant about it. Great work hiring such a nice guy.

Excited to see Creator Studio from Apple, especially Pixelmator Pro on iPad. Looking forward to putting the Apple Intelligence features through their paces www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Introducing Apple Creator Studio, an inspiring collection of creative apps

Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity.

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Menu Item Icons are there on iOS and macOS to prep us for the HomePod w/ a screen. Otherwise, an entire UI with text menus would take much more mental processing. Plus they can be reduced to single Controls using thier glyphs

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 7mo ago

when macOS 26 added menu item icons, i checked the HIG immediately. it had two pieces of advice, one of which was: "not all menu items need an icon […] don't add icons for the sake of ornamentation." but… i mean… then when do you… how do you decide? aren't they all ornamentation? please, help us!

@pbotinfo.bsky.social One of your vehicles just performed 3 traffic violations in front of me – blew through two Right Turn Only lanes and then stopped in the third in the road without signaling. License plate E303911. Either follow the rules yourselves or change these lanes