Big news!
I'm launching a tiny Mac app 🥺🔍🤏

 It's called TinyStart, and it's a lightweight Launcher and Emoji picker for macOS!

Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results and launching apps. It never becomes overcrowded with search results you don't need, and it lets you open URLs, perform web searches with custom search engines, and quickly open folders in Finder.

Oh and yes, I think the Emoji picker is pretty good too. It's everything the default macOS Emoji picker isn't: it's fast, it lets you insert Emojis in any text field, it isn't picky about keywords, and it learns your favorite Emojis over time.

Get TinyStart at https://tinystart.app: it's €5, you pay for it once and future updates are free!

also I made a lil' video to show you what it looks like:

PSA for anyone annoyed by iOS 26.4 burying app updates a level deeper in the App Store: A long press on the App Store’s icon gets you a shortcut there.

We can keep updating manually like the sickos we are. John Gruber gets it:

"I update apps manually, because I like reading release notes from developers who take the time to document changes, and I also like reading “Bug fixes and performance improvements” over and over and over again from developers who do not."

Wrote up some thoughts on the upcoming iPhone Fold, using iOS vs. iPadOS for it, and my experience with the Z Fold 7 over the past few weeks:

https://www.macstories.net/notes/folding-ios/