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 SorgeJared Sorge (@[email protected]) - 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 Related Episodes Practical Agents with Donny Wals Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich The Great SwiftUI Migration - Part 2 with Ben Scheirman 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 Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Welcome to our new monthly supporters work design Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @[email protected] YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)