Best of Mac — September 2025

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   Tailscale·34w

   Tailscale’s windowed macOS UI is now in beta

   Tailscale has released a beta windowed macOS application that complements the existing menu bar interface. The new UI provides enhanced features including device search, better error handling, debugging tools, and improved feature discovery. Key features include a searchable device list, exit node management, troubleshooting information with visual error indicators, and a mini player mode for streamlined usage. The windowed app runs alongside the menu bar version and requires enabling through the admin console's feature previews section.

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   Product Hunt·36w

   PeekNote: Lightweight always-on-top notes for devs & multitaskers

   PeekNote is a lightweight macOS application that provides always-on-top notes functionality for developers and multitaskers. The app allows users to copy, paste, and organize text with features like color-coded tabs and blocks, making it easy to keep code snippets, notes, and tasks instantly accessible while working.

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   Hacker News·37w

   sam henri gold on X: "Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like

   A developer discovered how to access MacBook's hidden screen hinge angle sensor through undocumented methods and created a creative audio application that makes the laptop sound like an old wooden door when opening and closing.

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   Justin Searls·36w

   Tot

   Tot is a minimalist text collection and editing app for Apple devices that syncs across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch via iCloud. It features a single-window design, Markdown support, customizable smart bullets, automatic backups, and Shortcuts integration. The app offers both free and premium features with a focus on simplicity and cross-device accessibility.

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   Qt·37w

   Qt on macOS 26 Tahoe

   Qt framework announces compatibility preparations for macOS 26 Tahoe, addressing challenges with the new Liquid Glass design system. The team has updated their Apple platform support policy to clarify forward compatibility and provides workaround mechanisms for applications experiencing styling issues. Qt continues working on enabling liquid glass effects in their native styles while maintaining compatibility mode options for existing applications.

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   Collections·36w

   Rust 1.90.0 Released: Key Updates for Linux and macOS Developers

   Rust 1.90 introduces workspace publishing support in Cargo with the `cargo publish --workspace` command for automatic dependency-ordered publishing. The release switches to the LLD linker as default for x86_64 Linux builds to improve linking performance, especially for large binaries. Platform support changes include demoting x86-64-apple-darwin from Tier 1 to Tier 2 due to GitHub's discontinuation of free macOS x86-64 runners. Additional improvements include new stabilized APIs for unsigned integer operations and const context support for floating-point methods.

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