The Birchtree Newsletter, November 2022

Hello! Work has been insane lately, so I've felt behind on all Internet Things recently, but of course there are still some goodies (including a font, I see you, fellow font fanatics 😉).

Birchtree Stuff

Alright, You Wore Me Down, Give Me macOS on an iPad*

For many years I’ve argued that macOS and iPadOS should remain separate, and that you don’t solve the iPad’s problems by just throwing macOS on there. I believed, and still believe, that the touch-first operating system with additional user protections, ease-of-use, and accessibility advantages was…

BirchtreeMatt Birchler

The iPad is Awesome, Actually

I recently wrote an article that had a pretty negative tone, which was only partially intended. Some people took this as me giving the iPad a well-deserved thrashing, and that wasn’t really my intent. The iPad is Awesome I use a 2021 11″ iPad Pro daily, and it’s the best

BirchtreeMatt Birchler

An Impossible Game

Apple currently sells 10 distinct Macs and 6 distinct iPads, which is way more than they did when Steve Jobs used the above grid to explain their computer strategy. The Game I need to do two things: 1. Trim the Mac line down to 4 machines to fit this grid.

BirchtreeMatt Birchler

Notable Links

• Are you a sicko who wants to make your next website look like Windows 98? There's a CSS library for that!
• Plain Text Sports gets you current scores and standing for a bunch of major sports for free and in, you guessed it, plain text.
• Nabla is a free isometric font that's also part of Google Fonts.
• DiffusionBee is by far the best way I've found to run AI image generation from your Mac (Apple silicon only).
• Did you play Nanosaur on a Mac in the late 90s. Now it's open source and you can get it on GitHub.
• Remarkable has some rad audiovisual scenes you can play while you work.

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