Welcome to Birchtree

I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.

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+ Comfortable and uncomfortable truths

I understand being mad, I understand not tolerating it, but I think there's an uncomfortable truth, representing the world being a messy place where few things are completely black and white.

22 Aug

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Walmart is the last major US company to add Tap to Pay

Walmart: More Ways to Pay: Tap to Pay Is Coming to Walmart and Sam’s Club beginning Aug. 24, we

22 Aug

Apple's obviously going to make a second folding phone

I've been using Samsung's new Galaxy Fold8 for the last week (More Birchtree members can read

20 Aug

Quick Subtitles 3

Quick Subtitles 3 is out now for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. While this is not the biggest update ever, there&

20 Aug

A visual representation of how many of my Mastodon followers are real. It's about 30%.

Subscriber rot

I joined Mastodon way back in 2016, but I dropped off and didn't come back until late 2022.

19 Aug

What is a perversion to writing?

Simon Wilson has the best description of LLMs that I’ve seen so far. He called them a calculator for

19 Aug

I for one, welcome our nanny state

There is a phrase that's come up more in the tech punditry recently: nanny state. This comes up

17 Aug