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The ‘59 Sound (365 Albums)
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The First Nostr App Is Out. WTF is This?
First off, Nostr is "a decentralized network based on cryptographic keypairs and that is not peer-to-peer, it
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The Birchtree Newsletter, February 2023
Hey everyone! Every month I think I'm going to run out of stuff to link to in this newsletter, but there's always more than enough to go around!
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An Unyielding Advocate for UsersJamison Foser: The New York Times Invents a Biden Scandal -- And the Public’s Reaction Stop and
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Love You To Death (365 Albums)
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Before the Waves (365 Albums)
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The Midnight Organ Fight (365 Albums)
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (365 Albums)
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Burn Down the Exclusive Podcasts, Burn Them All Down
Tyler Aquilina: Podcast Exclusivity Is Quickly Becoming an Outdated Strategy
Contrary to film and TV streaming, it seems, content is not king in the podcasting space. If large numbers of listeners will not follow even popular shows to an exclusive platform, such deals will look less and less attractive in a declining market, and the
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An Unyielding Advocate for Users
Jamison Foser: The New York Times Invents a Biden Scandal -- And the Public's Reaction
Stop and think about that for a second. Why would this be true? If the two cases are “markedly different,” why would Democrats “have a hard time using Trump’s mishandling of classified papers against him”? The only way
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (365 Albums)
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I'm Turning Off Twitter Cross-Posting
For as long as I can remember, this blog has automatically posted to its @_BirchTree account on Twitter so that people could follow my site without following all the other things I would tweet about on my @mattbirchler account.
Times change, and I'm no longer using Twitter. I'm also not terribly
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Transparent Things (365 Albums)
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Good UX Needs More Than Data, It Needs Some Taste
Chris Welch: Instagram Showed People Too Many Videos Last Year, Admits Adam Mosseri
Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, now believes that the platform put a lopsided emphasis on videos and Reels last year — and traditional photo posts were worse off because of it. In one of the answers from his weekly Q&
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The Constant Anger Brigade is Angry Again
Gizmodo: Republicans Are Outraged Over a 'Green' Xbox Update
Some Republican pundits and politicians did not like the announcement one bit and are using it as the latest front in the culture war. “Now the woke brigade is after video games all in the name of climate change,” conservative group Young America’s
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The Shocking State of Enthusiast Apps on Android
I recently commented on Mastodon that I thought when it comes to third party apps, iOS is remarkably far ahead
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Vampire Weekend (365 Albums)
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Benchmarks, Good When I Win, Bad When I Lose
Derek Wise: 2023 MacBook Pro SSD Has Performance Drop Similar to M2 MacBook Air
A quick look inside the base-level M2 Pro MacBook Pro revealed something I hadn’t expected to see – or, rather, something I HAD expected to see that was missing. Like the base level M2 MacBook Air, the base level of
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XO (365 Albums)
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