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# The Birchtree Newsletter, August 2022
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/newsletter-115/
- Published: 2022-08-01T17:30:45.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-01T17:30:45.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: newsletter, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

The Birchtree Newsletter is now monthly! I've fallen off the wagon recently, and I still want to bring you guys fun stuff, but doing that every week became too much, but monthly works so much better, so I hope you enjoy it as well. Here's what we'll cover each issue:

1. **Birchtree Stuff:** things I made this month I think you should check out in case you missed them.
2. **Notable Links:** games, fun sites, fonts, design, and whatever else.
3. **Good Videos:** some of the best YouTube from the past month
4. **On Repeat:** music I can't stop listening to.

## Birchtree Stuff

[How to Write a Good Pitch Email to YouTubersI get a lot of of emails from companies asking me to try their product and make a video about it. I don’t respond to most of these emails, but a few do catch my eye and make me check out the product. Today I wanted to share a![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/06/Birchtree-Logo.png)BirchtreeMatt Birchler![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2021/11/Artboard-1.png)](https://birchtree.me/blog/how-to-write-a-good-pitch-email-to-youtubers/)

[My Dumb HobbyThis is my keyboard, the Keychron Q1, and I’ve been using it for about a year, but it’s changed a good deal from the product I originally got in the mail. I’ve gone more and more down the rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards, and the Q1 was a great keyboard![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/06/Birchtree-Logo.png)BirchtreeMatt Birchler![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2022/07/IMG_4909.81a213ce1e7d4e9eaec8500e05779918.jpg)](https://birchtree.me/blog/my-dumb-hobby/)

[Blogging Like It’s 20102 weeks ago today I decided that I wasn’t having fun on Twitter anymore, so I took a break, and outside of posting a couple movie and book reviews, I literally have not gone on to see what’s happening (if you’ve @’d or DMd me, I’m![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/06/Birchtree-Logo.png)BirchtreeMatt Birchler![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2021/11/Artboard-1.png)](https://birchtree.me/blog/blogging-like-its-2010/)

## Notable Links

- I've been trying out [Raindrop.io](https://raindrop.io/?ref=birchtree.me) as a more modern, more easilty-automated way to save web pages for the long haul.
- [MegaBlock](https://megablock.xyz/?ref=birchtree.me) lets you provide a bad tweet, and block the person who sent it as well as every single person who liked it.
- [Gail Myerscough](https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/?ref=birchtree.me) has some amazing artwork.
- [Mr. Squarepants and the Dumb Starfish](https://soundcloud.com/user-395153821/sets/mr-squarepants-and-the-dumb?ref=birchtree.me) is objectively stupid, but it's worth at least a few minutes of your time.
- [Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/?ref=birchtree.me) looks like a rad place where you can get high-quality ebooks of tons of books in the public domain.
- Lego's new Minifigure Factory is rolling out slowly, but it lets you create custom minifigs of you, your loved ones, or basically anyone you want. I got one and it was pretty good, but I hope they add a ton more options in the future. I'm thinking something on the level of the [Xbox Design Lab](https://xboxdesignlab.xbox.com/?ref=birchtree.me).

## Good Videos

twitter is a collective hallucination

Building a Next-Level Camera

The Makita Coffee Machine: A Bizarre Battery-Powered Brewer

Bloodborne PSX: Recreating Bloodborne as a PlayStation One Game | Noclip

## On Repeat

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2022/08/2022-08-Music.jpg)

- Maggie Rogers burst onto the scene in 2019 with a few incredible singles, and while her second record, [Surrender](https://album.link/i/1616063370?ref=birchtree.me) doesn't achieve as many of the same highs as that debut, a few songs like *Want Want* stand out on this very solid follow-up.
- ODESZA makes prime nighttime drive music, and their latest, [The Last Goodbye](https://album.link/i/1612664558?ref=birchtree.me), continues that trend.
- GRMLN is the solo project of Japanese musician Yoodoo Park, and while his latest record is [Lost Days In Lake Biwa](https://album.link/i/1628428436?ref=birchtree.me), this is his second LP out this year, and his eighth since 2019(!!), so just pick up whenever you want in his discography (2014's Soon Away is a highlight too).