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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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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
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Touch is the second most exciting part of the new MacBook Pro

A few days ago, Apple released a new product: a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen. But I think they actually released two things, and to understand what’s going on, you need to distinguish between them. The first, of course, is a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen. That’s a first for the Mac, which
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+ I can prove touch on a laptop is 100% additive

The iPad says hello.

🎙️ Apple finally did it

I didn't know what to write, so I decided to just talk into the mic for 10 minutes about my feelings after Apple finally actually did what I knew they'd always do: release a Mac with a touch screen.
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+ My custom terminal

+ My custom terminal

The radically more expensive iPad mini

I've been borderline fixated on the cost of the iPad mini for the past few years. The price has been creeping up, and every rumor about the next-gen models always suggested they would get even more premium (and bring bigger price tags). This fixation got another hit of dopamine today as Apple