Best of Mac — March 2026

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    Avatar of omgubomg! ubuntu!·11w

    Ghostty 1.3 terminal brings big new features

    Ghostty 1.3.0 has been released after 6 months of development, bringing over 2,800 commits from 180 contributors. Key new features include scrollback search (with a dedicated concurrent search thread), native scrollbar support on macOS and Linux, click-events for cursor positioning in shells like Fish, Zsh, Bash, and Nushell, and command completion notifications. Linux-specific additions include two-finger swipe to switch tabs, new CLI window options, and improved GNOME middle-click paste support. macOS gains drag-and-drop terminal split reordering and in-app updating for official binaries. An effort is also underway to get Ghostty into the official Ubuntu repositories.

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    Avatar of jeffgeerlingJeff Geerling·9w

    The best laptop Apple ever made

    Jeff Geerling argues the 11" MacBook Air is the best laptop Apple ever made, citing its ahead-of-its-time design and surprising repairability. He also gathered opinions from other Mac YouTubers, whose picks range from the iBook G3 Clamshell and Titanium PowerBook G4 to the modern M-series MacBooks. The post touches on repairability across Mac eras, noting that older machines were more upgradeable while modern Apple Silicon laptops prioritize thinness and efficiency over serviceability.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·9w

    Maestri: An infinite canvas where coding agents work in concert

    Maestri is a native macOS app built by a solo developer that provides an infinite canvas for managing multiple AI coding agents simultaneously. Each terminal session is a visual node that can be freely positioned alongside notes and sketches. The standout feature is agent-to-agent communication: drag a line between two terminals and the agents collaborate directly via PTY orchestration — no APIs or middleware required. Claude Code can talk to Codex, Gemini can delegate to OpenCode, etc. An on-device AI companion called Ombro (powered by Apple Intelligence) monitors all activity and summarizes what happened while you were away. Built in Swift with a custom canvas engine, it requires no account, collects no telemetry, and is priced at $18 lifetime for Pro with one free workspace.

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    Avatar of t3dotggTheo - t3․gg·11w

    I’m getting so tired of Apple.

    A developer and content creator delivers an extended rant about Apple's declining software quality, broken UX, and problematic policies. Key complaints include macOS 26's inconsistent UI (mismatched corner radii, broken window resizing), iOS 26 regressions in the Photos app and autocorrect, persistent long-standing bugs (Apple Pay UI confusion, AirDrop unreliability, Mail search failures, Google contact sync issues), Apple's 30% App Store fee harming indie developers while large companies pay nothing, Apple's culture of silencing employees and ignoring external feedback, and Apple choosing a cheaper but inferior AI model for Siri over Anthropic despite using Claude internally. The post also references a website cataloging Apple bugs with estimates of billions of hours of human time wasted annually.

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    Avatar of searlsJustin Searls·10w

    Claude's electron app for macOS is such…

    A developer criticizes Anthropic's Claude desktop app for macOS, calling it a buggy Electron app, and has uninstalled it in favor of using it in a Safari tab. The post contrasts this with ChatGPT's native macOS app, which works more reliably, and links to a blog post lamenting the decline of native app development.

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    Avatar of duckdbDuckDB·11w

    Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook

    DuckDB's team benchmarked the entry-level MacBook Neo (Apple A18 Pro, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, $700) against AWS cloud instances using ClickBench and TPC-DS workloads. In cold runs, the MacBook outperformed cloud instances due to its local NVMe SSD vs. network-attached storage. In hot runs, the large c8g.metal-48xl cloud instance dominated, but the MacBook held its own against a mid-sized c6a.4xlarge. TPC-DS at SF100 completed in 15.5 minutes; at SF300, DuckDB spilled up to 80 GB to disk and finished all queries in 79 minutes. The verdict: the MacBook Neo is not ideal for daily heavy data workloads due to slower disk I/O and limited RAM, but it handles occasional local analytics well, especially when used primarily as a cloud client.

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