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Notes on screen recording,
video & Mac craft

Specific, opinionated writing on Mac screen recording, product demos, automatic zoom, on-device captions, and what it takes to make a short video that doesn't look amateur. Written by the person who builds CursorFlow.

Screen.studio vs CursorFlow
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Screen.studio vs CursorFlow: an honest comparison

I make a competitor. Here's where Screen.studio is the better buy, where CursorFlow is, and where the two products actually differ — written without spin and with the prices and features both teams have shipped.

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Recording a YouTube tutorial on Mac
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Recording a YouTube tutorial on Mac: a real workflow

The end-to-end workflow I use to ship a tutorial video — from outline to thumbnail. Real tools, real timings, no fluff about "storytelling".

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On-device captions on macOS with Apple's Speech framework
6 min read

On-device captions on macOS: what Apple's Speech framework actually does

How on-device captions work on macOS in 2026, what Apple's Speech framework gets right, where it falls back to the cloud, and why I stopped paying a transcription API.

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Film a SaaS tutorial without editing software
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How to film a SaaS tutorial without editing software

If your only video work is the occasional onboarding clip or changelog walkthrough, you don't need Premiere. Here's the smaller stack that's enough.

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Built-in teleprompter for screen recorders
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A built-in teleprompter is the upgrade most screen recorders are missing

Why the script needs to live inside the recorder, not on a second screen. And what changes about your delivery when it does.

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The case for local-first screen recording
7 min read

The case for local-first screen recording

Cloud screen recorders are convenient. They also send every demo of your unfinished feature to someone else's server. Here's the alternative.

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Why screen recordings need automatic zoom
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Why screen recordings need automatic zoom

A 14-inch laptop, a 4K master, and a viewer on a phone. Three resolutions, one piece of footage, and why "just record the whole screen" stopped working.

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Loom alternatives for Mac in 2026
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Loom alternatives for Mac in 2026 (from the dev who built one)

Five Loom alternatives, what each one is actually good at, and where I think CursorFlow fits — written by the person who has to compete with all of them.

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How to record a product demo on Mac
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How to record a product demo on Mac that doesn't look amateur

The seven things that make a screen recording feel "produced" instead of "raw." None of them are about your script.

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Why I built CursorFlow
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Why I built CursorFlow: a $50 native Mac screen recorder

The two-paragraph version: I got tired of paying $20/month to upload my own screen to a cloud. So I shipped a $50 alternative that runs on my Mac.

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