4 Jan 2025 - 2 min read

A quick, incomplete thought about Squid Game 2

This one thing about Squid Game really sticks in my craw…

3 Jan 2025 - 2 min read

My lil' Ghostty terminal config

I wrote about Ghostty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)

31 Dec 2024 - 6 min read

Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want.

2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a damper on the year right from the jump: a health issue and a radical increase in monthly spending. I won't go into the details here, but over the course of

30 Dec 2024 - 1 min read

More YouTube goodies? More YouTube goodies.

Here we go again!

30 Dec 2024 - 7 min read

2025: The year of fitness (members post)

2025 is upon us and my goals for the new year are very clear: I need to get my fitness in order. Here's the plan…

30 Dec 2024 - 9 min read

Apple’s 2024 report card: Vision Pro 👓

This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Vision Pro report card here. Year one of Vision Pro This is a bit of a can

29 Dec 2024 - 1 min read

OpenAI is early Googling late-stage Google

Chuck W. Nelson: Google's Search Results Are Infested, and Open AI Is Using Google's Playbook From the 2000s In order for Google to keep its crown, it needs to remember what it was in the 2000s and a bit of luck. Seeing Google grow from the

29 Dec 2024 - 5 min read

Apple’s 2024 report card: Apple Watch ⌚

This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Apple Watch report card here. Series 10 It’s always fun when we get a new Apple Watch design, and

28 Dec 2024 - 6 min read

Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻

This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Mac report card here. MacBook Pro The MacBook Pro continues to get a relentless stream of updates, as the only

27 Dec 2024 - 1 min read

Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now

Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming: With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0 achieves all

27 Dec 2024 - 1 min read

That time Apple made Audio Hijack way worse, but eventually made it better for everyone

Paul Kafasis: The Developers Who Came in From the Cold I’m delighted to say that we have completed our transition to ARK, and it now powers all of our audio capture apps on MacOS 14 and higher. Our glorious hassle-free future has finally arrived, and you can get started

27 Dec 2024 - 5 min read

Apple’s 2024 report card: iPad

This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPad report card here. iPad Pro I'm so happy I get to say it was a big year

26 Dec 2024 - 8 min read

Apple’s 2024 report card: iPhone 📱

This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPhone report card here. iPhone 16 Pro I really, really liked the 15 Pro lineup, and I would place it

24 Dec 2024 - 6 min read

Grading my 2024 Apple predictions

First off, merry Christmas! I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main product lines, iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, and the soon-to-be-released Vision Pro. I’ll be doing that again over the last few days of the year, but in the interest of keeping those

23 Dec 2024 - 2 min read

Starship is a late contender for favorite new things in 2024

I don't have a huge love for Star Fox 64. I mean I played it with friends and I still have the cartridge all these years later, but it's not as big a part of my childhood as Ocarina of Time was. That said, the Ocarina