The Birchtree Newsletter, November 2022
The Birchtree Newsletter, November 2022
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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 š).
Birchtree Stuff
Alright, You Wore Me Down, Give Me macOS on an iPad*
For many years Iāve argued that macOS and iPadOS should remain separate, and that you donāt solve the iPadās 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 wasā¦
Matt 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 wasnāt really my intent. The iPad is Awesome I use a 2021 11ā³ iPad Pro daily, and itās the best
Matt 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.
Matt 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.