Stu Maschwitz:

Prolost Watches is an iPhone app for managing your watch collection. It’s part database, part journal; designed for the detail-obsessed mind of the watch fanatic. As you log each day’s choice of watch, insights are revealed. Wear logs trace a path on the map. Events from the past are resurfaced at opportune times. Finances mange themselves as you buy and sell. Your entire collection lives in your pocket, and you get to enjoy all your watches, even the ones you’re not wearing. [...]

Prolost Watches is a one-time purchase. There’s no subscription, no ads, no account, and no server. Your data is secure and private, and never leaves your device. Pre-order now for US$14.99, with expected release on June 16 at US$19.99.

I’m friends with Stu, I have my own little obsessively curated watch collection, and, for some of my interests in life, I love keeping a log of activity. So I jumped at the chance to beta test Prolost Watches. And it turns out, my watches are not one of those things I want to track in a log or database. I just want to continue doing what I’ve been doing ever since I went from owning only one watch to two: I pick the one I’m in the mood for that morning and I wear it for the day.

I feel the same way about sleep tracking. I’m fortunate in that I sleep great every night. I’ve been sleeping better this past year than I have in my entire life. So while I have my Apple Watch(es) set to track my sleep overnight — because why not collect the data? — I don’t look at it or worry about it most days because all it tends to do is add a little stress to my mind over something I ought not have even an iota of stress regarding. (I like wearing an Apple Watch while I sleep not for the sleep tracking but because it’s easy to read in the middle of the night in the dark.)

But, that’s me. I obsessively track other things that most of you would think are a bit nutty to track. You don’t get to pick your obsessions, but you know what they are. If you’ve got a few watches and you think you’d be interested in tracking how often you wear each one, you should already have the above link to Prolost Watches open in a tab.

Interesting too, is how Maschwitz made Prolost Watches:

Bitrig has changed a lot since I used the iPhone version to create the ill-fated version of Drinking Buddy. It’s now a native Mac app that allows prompt-base creation of native SwiftUI apps for iPhone, as well as iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. It has a built-in simulator, and can preview your apps on your device as well. If Lovable (which I used to create the shipping version of Drinking Buddy) is at one end of the spectrum — easy for anyone to use with little experience, and Claude Code running in the terminal is at the other, Bitrig is in a sweet spot right in the middle: a little nerdy, but with some well-considered creature comforts that, in my case, made it mostly a delight to craft and refine a complex app.

The iPhone version of Bitrig got swept up in Apple’s infuriating but unsurprising crackdown on iOS vibe-coding apps a few months ago. It’s still in the App Store, but hasn’t been updated in over five months. The Mac app is in active development. It’s kind of bananas that the iPhone is a nearly 20-year-old platform and you still can’t use an iPhone app to make iPhone apps. And when developers, like Bitrig, found ways to build atop LLM capabilities to make iPhone apps that can make iPhone apps, Apple put the kibosh on it.

I’m sure there’s a scene marker right at the cut, so that’s why an ad got inserted there. But, my god. Someone at Amazon should go to prison for this.

(I think it’s a total coincidence that the Febreze ad seems roughly color-matched to the sky. But scroll down in the Bluesky thread for some links to the absolute genius campaign from Cerveza Cristal beer, with spots specifically designed to integrate into Star Wars when it was broadcast on commercial TV in Chile. “Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough” might be the funniest TV commercial ever made.)

Update: Here’s Todd Vaziri’s 2026 HD remaster of the original jump cut, for your comparison. Enjoy.

Great stuff around MLB:

Those around the league quickly honored that legacy during Monday night’s slate of games. Tributes rolled in from across the league, with various play-by-play announcers deviating from their typical routines to give a nod to Sterling’s distinct style.

It started with the Yankees and TV man Michael Kay, who called Aaron Judge’s first-inning home run exactly as Sterling would have: “It is high, it is far, it is gone!” Kay said, continuing: “Aaron Judge, a Judgian blast! Here comes the Judge!”

The Yankees also tipped the cap to Sterling by playing a recording of his iconic post-win call over the loudspeakers in Yankee Stadium once New York wrapped up a 12-1 win over the Orioles — “Yankees win, theeee Yankees win!” — something Judge and manager Aaron Boone each said they hoped could continue to be done moving forward.

The Yankees will wear a commemorative patch for the remainder of the season. I’ve got my beefs with Hal Steinbrenner, but the organization still knows how to do stuff like this right.

Sterling called 5,426 regular-season Yankees games and 225 postseason games. According to this tally, there are only three teams that have even played in at least 225 postseason games in franchise history. He called 5,060 consecutive games from September 1989 to July 2019 — a span that included every at-bat of Derek Jeter’s career and every inning of Mariano Rivera’s. He called five seasons for the Atlanta Braves before getting a real job.

To put that longevity in perspective, how’s this for a factoid:

John Sterling called nearly 3.0% of all games in MLB history — this includes all games, for all teams, even those prior to the first ever radio broadcast of a ballgame on Aug. 5, 1921.

(Vin Scully, the best there ever was, called over 4 percent of all MLB games ever played.)

I listened to Sterling call a lot of games. He never once made it boring.

That previous item led me to look at Claris’s website for the first time in a while. And, lo, there’s a banner promoting a message from CEO Ryan McCann that was posted just yesterday, under the headline “How Claris Is Building for What’s Next”:

Every AI-generated application creates the same problems: Where does it run, and how is it deployed, secured, and managed?

The app needs a database. It needs user authentication, role-based permissions, and audit logging. It needs backup and recovery. It needs to work on Mac, Windows, iPad, iPhone, and the web. It needs to run on infrastructure your organization controls, whether that is in the cloud or on your own hardware.

This is what FileMaker already is. One unified platform with data, logic, interface, security, and cross-platform delivery, built together from the start. We’ve been solving this problem at scale for over 40 years.

“Mac, Windows, iPad, iPhone, and the web”, huh? Feels like there’s a somewhat popular platform missing from that list. Can’t quite put my finger on it. Oh yeah.

FileMaker 2026 is coming soon. This release focuses on resiliency, productivity, and infrastructure, including native disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities enabled by two new features: FileMaker Server Remote Backup and Standby Server. Additionally, it lays the groundwork for agentic development. We will share specifics in the coming weeks.

Later this summer, following the release of FileMaker 2026, we will deliver the first developer previews of our agentic coding functionality.

I have to admit I very seldom hear about FileMaker, and I’ve never once heard of Ryan McCann before. But it must still be a significant business. Tim Cook certainly doesn’t seem like the sentimental type.

Apple Newsroom, back in August 2024:

Apple today announced that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will continue to lead the Corporate Services teams, including information systems and technology, information security, and real estate and development, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. As part of a planned succession, Kevan Parekh, Apple’s Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis, will become Chief Financial Officer and join the executive team.

That continued leadership role wasn’t ceremonial. Maestri still has an executive page, which reads:

Luca Maestri is Apple’s vice president of Corporate Services, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. In this role, he oversees a range of functions, including information systems and technology, information security, real estate and development, Caffè Macs, and Claris.

I find the mention of Caffè Macs to be utterly charming. (And the mention of Claris to be at least a little interesting.)