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

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+ The impossible LLM standard

28 Dec

Apple

This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines. You can

28 Dec

Apple

This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines (iPhone, iPad,

27 Dec

Today I learned something amazing: Safari supports higher than 60Hz refresh. It's the only mainstream web browser that

26 Dec

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Andru Marino writing for The Verge: It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’ In 2026, instead of trying

26 Dec

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In which I calmly explain what I think caused all of the problems with the Star Wars sequel trilogy.

20 Dec

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From the Anthropic blog: A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size It remains unclear how far

19 Dec