About this desk
Who writes here, what gets published, and the rules the site follows.
The Mac Desk is a small publication about using a Mac on purpose: what changed in the system, which shortcuts save real time, how to set something up so it survives the next update, and which tools are worth keeping.
What gets published
Four sections, each with its own standard.
News covers platform changes with a practical angle. If a release note does not change anything you do, it does not belong here.
Lifehacks are short pieces about a single move: one gesture, one setting, one command. If a tip needs three paragraphs of setup before it pays off, it becomes a guide instead.
Guides are step-by-step and assume you will follow them once, months from now, on a machine you have forgotten the state of. Commands are written to be copied exactly.
Reviews answer one question: does this earn a place in the Dock. Prices are not quoted, because they change and the reasoning should not depend on them.
How it is built
The site is a static build: Markdown files in, HTML out, no framework. No tracking scripts, no external fonts, no cookie banner, because there are no cookies to consent to. The RSS feed carries everything that gets published.
Corrections
When something here is wrong, the piece is corrected and the correction is noted at the bottom, rather than silently edited. If a command or a shortcut does not work on your macOS version, that is worth reporting: the version matters, and the fix usually does too.