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.
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Related Links
- Arborist 1.2 - jsorge.net
- Baseplate - Track your LEGO collection - Taphouse Software
- git-worktree Documentation - Git
- 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
- XcodeGen - GitHub
- Shipaton 2026 - RevenueCat
- SwiftCon
- iOSDevUK
- Bushel - Mac virtualization for developers
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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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Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Creators and Guests
Host
Leo Dion
Swift developer for Apple devices and more; Founder of BrightDigit; husband and father of 6 adorable kids
Guest
Jared Sorge
Christian, husband, dad, developer, batman afficianado. Owner of @taphouseio.Most of my posts are cross posted from my microblog. https://t.co/0vEcvLEJWi
