More Birchtree, less money
Hello! I've been running More Birchtree for a year and a half now, it's been pretty
Apple
"No" part 2
Yesterday I wrote about how macOS and iPadOS apps are really merging into one unified experience. That was a quick
Politics
"These people do it naturally"
I've been thinking quite a bit recently about how the current state of the United States compares to
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"No"
Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon:
"Are you merging iOS and macOS?" "…No! Of course not"
Yet seven
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How the best Mac stacks up against the best gaming PCs
Apple's gaming ambitions have apparently brought them to the place where they've sent review hardware to
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Back to the future when tech was fun
Lee Peterson writing I miss the time when technology was fun:
I really miss the days when I enjoyed catching
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OpenAI releases their open source models (and they're really impressive)
OpenAI: Introducing GPT-Oss
The gpt-oss-120b model achieves near-parity with OpenAI o4-mini on core reasoning benchmarks, while running efficiently on a
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Wavelengths is one of the good ones
Brendon Bigley: Wavelengths 2.0: A Podcast and a Patreon
Wavelengths is video game news for the people who want
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I got this wrong about LLMs
Vidit Bhargava: Beyond Sparkles and Chat
AI is not a feature, it's one of the many technologies that
Death Stranding 2 is a whole new ballgame
This post contains zero story spoilers, but does discuss gameplay elements from all of Death Stranding and the first third
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Ollama's New App
Ollama's New App:
Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
This is awesome! Ollama
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5,090 days
Nick Heer: The Tim Cook Era Is Fully Cemented
On 16 September 1997, Steve Jobs became interim CEO of Apple.
Castro for Android is in the works
I was over here minding my own business, asking people how many of their home screen apps were available on
Network tokens, the payment tech you've never heard of
I very rarely talk about payments on this blog, but every once in a while I get to talk about
Quick Reviews 2.0 is out now
I'm happy to announce Quick Reviews 2.0 is out now for the iPhone and iPad. Here'
Jeans? Genes. Wait, what?
If you're online at all, you've probably at least heard of the American Eagle controversy around
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More Avatar? Bring it on.
Listen, I know there's a loud group of people who think the Avatar movies are dumb spectacles, but
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The Mac-ification of iPadOS
Harry McCracken writing for Fast Company: iPadOS 26 Is Way More Mac-Like. Where Does That Lead?
However, as someone who’