Welcome to Birchtree

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

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Financially secure Sony shuts down a great game studio they acquired, seemingly just to ruin

Brendon Bigley: Bluepoint Games Shuttered by PlayStation for Some Unfathomable Reason Are we sincerely supposed to believe that in a

22 Feb

I've used Plausible for my analytics since 2021, and I've been quite happy with it. It

21 Feb

Apple

How's this for a hot take to start the weekend: I think Apple is going to discontinue iPadOS.

21 Feb

There will be a Quick Subtitles update out soon that adds OpenAI's Whisper model to the app as

20 Feb

I watch the occasional Kyle Hill video, and his latest about data centers in space being a bad idea got

20 Feb

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Claudio Nastruzzi: Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation When an author uses AI for "

19 Feb

I live in worlds where .SRT is the g0-to subtitles format, but other people have different needs. There is an

19 Feb