An engineer restores pay phones for free public use via NPR Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast," he says. The 31-year-old electrical engineer says poor reception is a common frustration for residents of Vermont's Orange County. To address this issue, he's providing his community with a new way to stay connected. Schlott has taken old

View this video at https://macmost.com/10-tips-to-customize-control-center-on-your-mac.html. Control Center in macOS Tahoe can be customized by rearranging the buttons, adding new ones, and removing things you don't need. You can even add more than one Control Center and use them for launching apps and Shortcuts.

View this video at https://macmost.com/how-to-use-ai-in-mac-shortcuts.html. You can feed information into an AI model in Mac Shortcuts and then perform tasks based on the results. This can be used to build your own complex and versatile productivity tools.

Phil and Timur are joined by Herb Sutter to catch up on what's going in to C++26 which, let's be honest, is dominated by reflection.News CLion now has a constexpr debugger "CMake for complex projects" - tutorial: Part one Part two Safe C++ proposal is not being continued Episode with Sean Baxter Links Herb's Reflection talk at CppCon 2025 Herb's Contract's talk at CppCon 2025

View this video at https://macmost.com/10-text-scams-to-watch-out-for.html. Text message scams are so common that most of us get one or more per week. Learn about the most common scams to stay on guard and prevent yourself and your friends and family from becoming a victim.

Learn about Clang, its history in Yocto, and what is new.

You write tests - but are they valuable tests? Carl and Richard talk to Egil Hansen about his approach to creating tests for applications. Egil discusses the types of testing and who they impact. Testing isn't only for you! Valuable tests are also durable, being able to persist between changes where it makes sense, and help to understand when updates are going to create problems. The role of LLMs in generating code comes into play: should AI write your tests, evaluate them, or do both? Lots of great

Aspire has been around for almost two years. How do you use it effectively? Carl and Richard talk to Chris Klug about his experience with .NET Aspire. Chris discusses thinking cloud natively, whether you are going to the cloud or not - it's not just a place, but also an architecture. The conversation digs into the role of containers and Kubernetes, deployment strategies, telemetry, security, testing, and more. You can use as much or as little Aspire as you wish!

Amey Desai, the Chief Technology Officer at Nexla, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its role in enabling agentic AI systems. The conversation begins with the fundamental challenge that led to MCP's creation: the proliferation of "spaghetti code" and custom integrations as developers tried to connect LLMs to various data sources and APIs. Before MCP, engineers were writing extensive scaffolding code using frameworks such as LangChain and Haystack, spending

I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display via Ben HolmenSix years ago I had an idea to build a large, inefficient display with a web interface that anyone could interact with. I've enjoyed Danny Rozin's unconvenional mirrors over the years and was inspired by an eInk movie player that played at 24 frames per hour that got me thinking about a laborious display that could slowly assemble an image. I landed on the idea of a 40×25 pixel grid of pixels, turned one by one by a single

View this video at https://macmost.com/live-creating-your-own-shortcuts-for-spotlight.html. With macOS Tahoe you can easily launch Shortcuts using Spotlight. Better still, you can include text input that the Shortcut then uses. Watch as I explore this new functionality.

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View this video at https://macmost.com/heres-how-to-replace-launchpad.html. If you miss Launchpad in macOS Tahoe before you used it to organize your apps or liked to launch apps using your mouse or trackpad, here is a was to build Launchpad-like functionality into your Mac Dock.

View this video at https://macmost.com/10-iphone-tips.html. Here are some useful tips for getting the most from your iPhone in iOS 26.

View this video at https://macmost.com/how-to-customize-folders-in-macos-tahoe.html. In macOS Tahoe and beyond you can set a folder color in the Finder, and also apply a symbol or Emoji character to the folder. This will help folders stand out from others. It also works across devices and will appear on your iPad and iPhone.

View this video at https://macmost.com/10-tips-for-using-the-new-spotlight-to-search-for-files.html. In macOS Tahoe Spotlight is more powerful than ever, with a whole mode dedicated to just search for files. Learn some powerful tips for using Spotlight file search mode.

The software industry is experiencing another seismic shift. After decades of agile transformations, cloud migrations, and DevOps revolutions, we're now navigating the integration of AI into the software development lifecycle. But this time feels different—the pace is faster, the technology less mature, and the stakes feel higher. Matty Stratton sat down with Hannah Foxwell and Robert Werner to explore what this transformation means for developers, operations teams, and the organizations they

Daniel Stenberg, Swedish Internet protocol expert and founder and lead developer of the Curl project, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about removing Rust from Curl. They discuss why Hyper was removed from curl, why the last five percent of making it a success was difficult, what the project gained from the 5-year attempt to tackle bringing Rust into a C project, lessons learned for next time, why user support is critical, and the positive long-lasting impact this attempt had. Brought to you

View this video at https://macmost.com/?p=34642. A live look at customizing folders with colors, symbols and emoji. Gary experiments live with colors and even shows a Terminal hack for using more than one character on a folder.

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