Raycast 2.0 has been released, introducing AI-powered features such as AI Chat for real-time knowledge across the operating system, along with existing productivity tools like snippets, quicklinks, an…
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy's April tweet about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases inspired Platformer's Casey Newton to create an LLM wiki, which he says has become the most useful produc…
A developer used AI to diagnose and fix macOS performance issues, replacing paid third-party apps with custom-built alternatives in under an hour each, resulting in a faster system and lower costs. Th…
Raycast released version 0.71 with a new Screen Awareness feature that lets Raycast AI access content from the focused app or window, eliminating the need to copy text or attach screenshots. The featu…
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal said his AI notetaker company, valued at $1.5 billion, refuses to sell employee transcripts to bosses, calling such surveillance "not a future we want to build towards." Ped…
Thomas Paul Mann, co-founder and CEO of Raycast, argues that half the software people use in a few years will be something they made themselves, as his company's new app Glaze lets users build custom …
Raycast released Glaze on July 1, 2026, an AI-powered tool that generates native Mac apps from plain English descriptions, compiling them through Xcode into installable .app bundles that run offline w…
A developer recommends 10 lightweight developer tools for 2026, including Deoit, Raycast, DevToys, HTTPie, Tabby, Excalidraw, Polypane, Insomnia, Obsidian, and uTools, emphasizing minimal resource usa…
A new Raycast extension called Claude Fleet lets developers manage Claude Code agents, pull requests, and worktrees directly from the Raycast launcher, reading Claude Code's own session registry for l…
StyleSeed, a free and MIT-licensed design-rules engine, launched to help AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor produce coherent, brand-specific UI instead of generic output. The engine …
Martin Piaggi built Summarize, an open-source tool that converts videos from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Reddit, Facebook, and local files into structured notes using a pipeline of transcription (Y…
Raycast launched Glaze, an all-in-one vibe-coding app for Mac that lets users build and share desktop apps without traditional programming. The author built three apps in the first month, finding the …
A developer created a Claude Code skill for the Mac screenshot app SlimSnap that dynamically reads the user's screenshot folder from a config file, avoiding hardcoded paths. The skill reads ~/.slimsna…
A Mac user with no native development experience used Antigravity with Gemini 3.1 Pro to vibe-code a Swift and SwiftUI app that monitors real-time bandwidth consumption per app, replacing paid tools l…
A frontend developer who tested over 30 AI tools in 2026 reports that Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Perplexity, and Raycast are the five tools they use daily, while GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT for code, and no…
A developer released Hodor, a 701KB native macOS app that launches saved AI prompts into any text field via screen edge, keyboard shortcut, or keyword. The free, open-source tool uses SwiftUI and Swif…
Raycast's default preference export creates a compressed `.rayconfig` file, which is difficult to track in a Git repository and requires a pro subscription for cloud syncing. To obtain a usable JSON f…