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Darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS Menu Bar App That Tells You, in Plain English, What Each USB-C Cable Plugged Into Your Mac Can Actually Do

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WhatCable is a macOS menu bar app for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS Sonoma or later that provides detailed, plain-English information about the capabilities of each USB-C cable connected to your Mac, including charging speed diagnostics and cable specifications. It leverages public IOKit services to reveal the cable's actual data and power ratings, connected devices, and negotiated power profiles, helping users understand why their Mac might be charging slowly or what each cable can do. The app also includes a command-line interface and is available for manual download or via Homebrew.

https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable

Atomic — Everything You Know, Connected

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Atomic is an open-source, self-hosted knowledge graph app that organizes notes, articles, and web clips by automatically embedding, tagging, and linking them into a connected knowledge base. It features semantic search, AI-generated wiki synthesis with inline citations, agentic chat for AI interaction scoped to user notes, and a visual spatial canvas to explore the relationships between ideas. Available across desktop, server, iOS, and browser extensions, Atomic helps users build an AI-augmented knowledge system that grows and organizes itself over time.

https://atomicapp.ai/

Pica, a MacOS Font Management App

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Pica is a font management tool for macOS that offers features such as logo previews, color themes, full OpenType support, custom collections, one-click activation, and watch folders. Created by Josh Puckett, it is available as a native and free application to simplify font organization and usage on Mac computers.

https://pica.joshpuckett.me/

Fluffypony/yojam: Open Links on macOS in Whatever Browser, App, or Profile You Need – Whatever Yo Jam Is

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Yojam is a macOS app that lets users open links in any browser, app, or profile they choose by acting as the default browser and routing links based on customizable rules. It supports features like browser profiles, Firefox containers, multi-monitor targeting, tracker removal, URL rewriting, and integration with share and browser extensions, offering flexible and privacy-conscious link management across Macs.

https://github.com/fluffypony/yojam

The Evolution of Mac App Window Corners

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The article explores the evolution of Mac app window corner designs from the original Macintosh OS to the latest macOS Tahoe, emphasizing changes in corner radius and window styles. It critiques Apple's recent design choices, particularly the uniform, more rounded corners in Tahoe that can cause content clipping, contrasting them with earlier versions like Mac OS X 10.0 that featured distinct rounded corners only at the top, suggesting the older designs offered better usability and aesthetics.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/3/4.html

Why You Can’t Trust Privacy & Security

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An investigation using a custom macOS app, Insent, reveals that Apple's Privacy & Security settings can misleadingly suggest an app lacks access to protected folders like Documents when it actually does. The macOS TCC system grants folder access based on user intent (e.g., selecting a folder via Open Panel), which circumvents typical consent prompts and disables effective revocation via Settings, requiring terminal commands and a restart to reset permissions. This exposes a discrepancy where Security settings do not accurately reflect an app’s actual access, raising concerns about the reliability of these macOS privacy controls.

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/10/why-you-cant-trust-privacy-security/

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