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Hi, I'm Matt. I *make apps* and *write about tech*.

I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.

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Quick Reads A beautiful read-later service for articles that matter. Web iOS Extensions Web Quick Reviews MacStories Best New App of 2025 Review the things you love and share them to social media. iPhone iPad Mac App Store nonogame Three fresh nonogram puzzles every day, in your browser. Web iPhone Web Birchfeed Rock solid RSS syncing for the reader app you already use. Web Any RSS reader Web Chapterize Professional podcast chapters, made while you listen. iPhone iPad Mac App Store Quick Subtitles Fast, private, on-device transcription to text or SRT. iPhone iPad Mac App Store Quick Notes Voice to text with Apple's on-device language models. iPhone iPad App Store Yearly Run Goals Yearly distance goals for running, cycling, and more. iPhone App Store Weave Typefully on iOS: threads, scheduling, publish everywhere. iPhone Web Best-o-Masto Catch up without getting sucked in. Mastodon, efficiently. iPhone App Store

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My daily Workbench update

Workbench is in beta and is currently on a near-daily release cycle, so here's today's update. Split tabs Maybe you want to have Claude doing something while you monitor the terminal. Now this is possible with a simple Command+D press. You can click between to update your focus or

Workbench for iOS is in public beta

Workbench for iOS is in public beta
Earlier this week, I released Workbench for the Mac, the best (if I dare say so) way to use Claude

A few updates to Workbench

A few updates to Workbench
I launched Workbench yesterday and the response has been fantastic. Thank you to the many people who tried it and
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+ How AI is pushing the open web into closed platforms

People are still creative – they will not stop making things. Where they make those things is an open question.

Workbench is the best developer tool I've ever made (in beta now)

Workbench is the best developer tool I've ever made (in beta now)
Agentic coding has grown quite a bit since I started dabbling in this two years ago. We used to request
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Pro workflows benefit from touch too

Jason Snell: Quick thoughts about the new MacBook Pro one portion of Apple’s intro video showed a developer using Xcode to test an iOS app, and they were touching the app in the iOS simulator. That… is a really cool use case. For the first time, developers will be able to touch their apps

Fixing Letterboxd's cast list on the web

Fixing Letterboxd's cast list on the web
I love Letterboxd, but I hate how they show you the cast on the web app. Here's the