Quick Reviews 1.0.5: the quality of life update
An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first
Matt Birchler
My toxic tech trait
99% of the time I want my software to be as fast as humanly possible. I want UI elements that
New weekend, new video recommendations
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Netflix accidentally gave us something nice
Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a Mistake
Considering the trajectory
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+ People Change (members post)
Too often I see people suggest that others are a static combination of beliefs. I stongly believe that people can, and do change.
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New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought
Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use?
A commonly-cited claim is that powering
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Matt Gemmell is back on the Mac
Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac
[The Mac is] satisfying
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It’s time to engage
Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web
To get the web we had at its
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Development is going through a real change
Thomas Ricouard: Is Software Engineering Over as We Know It?
Writing code has always been a means to an end,
noclip is my favorite website find of 2025 so far
noclip is quite the find, and I've lost more time than I'd like to admit in
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Apple jumps in the hot tub
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones Due to DMA
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Grammarly still bests Writing Tools
Adam Engst: Why Grammarly Beats Apple’s Writing Tools for Serious Writers
Say I want to proofread this paragraph while
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El Salvador gives up on Bitcoin
The Tico Times: El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment
Bitcoin was never used by most Salvadorans,
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That’s not for me, but I love that the open web makes it possible
Federico Viticci for MacStories: The Many Purposes of Timeline Apps for the Open Web
But: the beauty of the open
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I'm not crazy about liking Android TV, here's why (members post)
People think I'm joking or something when I say that Android TV is better than you'd think, and that tvOS could learn some things from it. Today's post is a video walk through of Android TV which tries to illustrate why it's compelling to me.
The next few vids you'll watch on YouTube
Quick Reviews is out now!
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The Vision Pro one year later: this product just ain’t for me
If you enjoy your Vision Pro, don't let this post imply that i think you're wrong