Skynet Came and Automated Everything with Jared Sorge

Jared Sorge stops by to chat about Arborist, his native Mac command center for Git work trees. We get into running agents in parallel with work trees, when to drop from SwiftUI down to AppKit, and selling a Mac app outside the App Store with Sparkle, Stripe, and RevenueCat, and somehow end up talking about the iPhone Duo.

Guest

• Jared Sorge
  • Jared Sorge (@jsorge@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
  • jsorge (Jared Sorge)
  • Jared Sorge | LinkedIn
  • Jared Sorge (@jsorge) • Threads
  • Arborist - A native macOS command center for Git repositories and worktrees
  • Taphouse Software

Related Links

• Arborist
• Baseplate - Track your LEGO collection
• Tower - Git client
• Nova - Panic
• mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner
• just - a handy way to save and run project-specific commands
• swift-subprocess - GitHub
• Sparkle - Software update framework for macOS
• RevenueCat
• Managed Payments - Stripe Documentation
• SQLiteData - Point-Free - GitHub
• Sharing - Point-Free - GitHub
• Swift Navigation - Point-Free - GitHub
• Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs - Anthropic
• Mac-Assed Mac Apps - Daring Fireball
• Tuist
• XcodeGen - GitHub
• Shipaton 2026 - RevenueCat
• SwiftCon
• iOSDevUK
• Bushel - Mac virtualization for developers

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• The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 1 with Ben Scheirman
• macOS Indie Deep Cuts with Aaron Vegh
• Mac Dev in 2021 with Daniel Jalkut
• How to Learn New APIs with Stewart Lynch - Part 1
• Automation Fun with Jared Sorge

Chapters

• (00:00) - Why Work Trees
• (06:56) - The Idea Behind Arborist
• (11:14) - SwiftUI vs. AppKit
• (17:05) - Picking the Right Tool for the Job
• (21:27) - From Problem to Product
• (25:30) - Shipping Outside the Mac App Store
• (29:59) - Licensing, Sandboxing & Subprocess
• (36:30) - Agentic Coding & the Product Engineer
• (45:17) - What's Next for Arborist

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