u/asherjn

Hey r/macgaming, I'm back with a quick follow-up to let you all know that Overwatch now supports MetalFX upscaling with Recall! For those who haven't seen my last post, Recall is a free and open-source project for playing Overwatch on Apple Silicon.

I spent all day yesterday playing around with MetalFX upscaling and it really has helped make the Overwatch on Mac experience feel even smoother which I know will especially help non-Pro Macs and/or older M-series Macs. I'm excited for you all to try it out and look forward to hearing your thoughts! For more details on how MetalFX upscaling works in Recall, you can check that out here.

Download Recall Here: https://github.com/AsherJN/recall

You can skip past everything below, but on a side note if you'll bear with me...

I just want to say, THANK YOU for all of your support!

I made my previous post with zero expectations and just wanted to share something cool that could potentially help other Overwatch players, and i have to say that I am still utterly astonished by how overwhelmingly positive this community has been. Even cooler, people actually took a leap and tried it for themselves and the success stories from it have been surreal to me. I think one of my favorites is this comment on a MacBook Neo Recall experience! I cannot tell you how large my grin is when I read these comments.

Recall has passed 1,000 downloads (insane!), and you all have been incredibly helpful in providing performance reports, enhancement requests, and attention to bugs over the past week. You all have certainly been keeping me busy and in that time, I’ve launched 3 new releases to address many of these user requests and have many more in the pipeline. To highlight some updates, Recall added macOS Game Mode, improved graphics prep, expanded controller support, ultrawide monitor compatibility, better bluetooth/airpods audio support, MetalFX upscaling support, and so much more. Special shoutout to those who have especially been active on the GitHub repo and helping make Recall better, it's cool flipping through the release notes and seeing all the people credited who contributed to these ideas/improvements.

With all that said, i just want to say once again, thank you :)

I have so many ideas for where Recall could go (and maybe games it could expand to 👀) and I’d love for you all to be a part of that! If you have an idea, identified an issue, or just wanna chat, you can reach me in the GitHub discussions or DM me.

Appreciate y’all <3

Hey everyone!

Last week, I reached a huge milestone by launching my app, Mosaic News, on the iOS App Store!

Mosaic News is a free iPhone app that aggregates news reporting from more than 850 publishers across the political spectrum, groups coverage of the same event, and connects individual events into larger narratives to help readers “see the whole picture.”

I started building it because I was frustrated by how difficult following the news had become. Misinformation, media bias, conflicting narratives, and an endless stream of disconnected updates made it difficult to understand what was actually happening.

What bothered me most was how little control readers have over the process. Much of the news we encounter is selected by platforms that collect behavioral data and optimize their feeds for engagement, often rewarding outrage, anxiety, and sensationalism. There is a clear information asymmetry: these platforms know far more about us than we know about them.

I wanted to explore what a news platform might look like if it shifted more of that power back to the reader.

Mosaic News is built around three commitments:

• Transparency: Every article and story explains why it appeared and how it was ranked. Readers can inspect the underlying coverage, compare political perspectives, identify coverage gaps, review third-party information about publishers, and examine the public methodology behind ranking, clustering, and AI-generated summaries.
• Agency and control: Readers directly choose the priorities, topics, publishers, and types of journalism used to rank and organize their feed. Instead of giving feedback to an unseen recommendation system, they can inspect and change the rules themselves.
• Privacy: Preferences, reading history, and personal insights remain stored on the reader’s device. Mosaic requires no account, maintains no centralized behavioral profile, serves no advertising, and sells no personal data.

It's been an incredible 6+ month journey researching, designing, building, and now launching this experience with immense help from beta testers who constantly drove me to experiment and iterate with new ways to make this platform stronger.

In keeping with the product’s commitment to transparency, I have documented the complete Product Journey, including the original inspiration, competitive research, product requirements, experiments, design decisions, technical challenges, launch, and next steps.

Mosaic News is completely free:

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mosaic-news-build-your-news/id6760421352
• Website: https://mosaicnews.app
• Full Product Journey: https://mosaicnews.app/journey

This is only the first release, and there is far more work to be done and I’d love for your feedback to guide the rest of this journey! Anything from bug reports to feature requests would be greatly appreciated.

I have so many exciting ideas on the future of this project and look forward to keeping you all updated as I progress :)