Matt Ronge
@mronge
💻 Building pro tools for the Apple ecosystem
🤖 Exploring AI Agents
🚀 CEO & Cofounder @astropad
🍎 Ex-Apple, Garmin, UIUC
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The iPad is my favorite way to remote into a Mac.
• Magic Keyboard just works
• Unified display matches the iPad screen
• Apple Pencil for precise clicks and Pencil-native drawing
Cramped VNC viewer this is not. Here's a short demo:
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Do you need a HDMI dummy plug for your headless Mac Mini?
No.
Here's why and what to do instead:
I've been running my Mac mini headless as an always-on AI agent host for months.
Here's my full setup video (3min) covering:
• FileVault + auto-login
• Sleep settings
• Remote access
• Reaching it from anywhere (yes, even from your phone)
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Workbench 1.2 just shipped - Remote desktop for your headless Mac from iPhone or iPad.
New stuff:
- Full Screen Unified Display on Mac
- Speech-to-text for non-English languages
- App stays connected in the background
- Improved zooming on iPad/iPhone
- Improved Intel Mac support
- Login stability fixes everywhere
- Option to hide the dock icon
Stick around to the end of the video for a little surprise 😗
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The iPad's external display support is underrated.
I connected my iPad to a Studio Display and ran Workbench. Now my headless Mac mini (back in Minneapolis) is running full-screen on a 27" display in Ohio.
Remote Mac on a Studio Display through an iPad. Pretty wild. 🤯
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Xcode on my iPad.
Yes, really.
Headless Mac mini running Xcode in the corner. The AI writes code, I check the simulator from my iPad through Workbench whenever I want.
Demo 👇
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Headless Mac mini + iPad is a very good combo for managing AI agents.
Here’s a quick demo of how I remotely connect, monitor what’s happening, and take over when needed from my iPad
Yesterday: iPad demo
Today: iPhone demo
Same headless Mac mini setup, but now you can manage AI agents from your pocket.
Here’s a quick demo of how I remotely connect from anywhere with my iPhone to monitor what’s happening, and take over when needed
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Headless Mac mini + iPad is a very good combo for managing AI agents.
Here’s a quick demo of how I remotely connect, monitor what’s happening, and take over when needed from my iPad
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After a year of development and countless prototypes, we’re finally ready to share Fresh Coat — our new anti-reflective screen protector for iPhone.
We wanted to launch this a year ago but I'm glad we took the extra time, because we nailed it!
Fresh Coat reduces reflections:
📱 3× compared to a bare iPhone
🪟 4× compared to standard glass protectors
We even built a custom jig to measure it side-by-side — the results for photography blew us away.
If you shoot photos on iPhone, this is a game-changer.
Link in the next tweet
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