Another 6 months means another iteration on the design of Birchtree! This is 100% a meta post, but I’ll try to keep it as interesting as possible! Font UpdatesMy Hoefler&Co subscription was about to renew, and I just didn’t want to spend the money on fonts.
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I think it's fair to say I share more of my life online than the average person. You can Google me easily, and I post all sorts of things across this blog, my YouTube channel, and social media (mostly Twitter). I even share a ton of photos across Twitter, Instagram,
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A little over into a year of doing YouTube, I’ve invested in the channel a good amount, in terms of time, energy, and money. On the money front, the biggest single investment by far has been my camera. When I started the channel, I didn’t expect to do
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One year ago today, yours truly: Save this for later, but I would be absolutely shocked if we don’t see major changes to either the App Store or non-App Store install options by this time next year, I’ll be shocked.Well, well, well, wasn't I surprised when this
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There are some tech things where I want to buy the best, there are others where I want to get the best thing at a reasonable price, and there are other things where I just don’t care that much and just need something. A network attached storage (NAS) is
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This is one of the oldest screenshots in my photo collection, and I wanted to do a deep dive into what’s there and what it tells The Device and OSThis screenshot was from September 19, 2013, so this would have been an iPhone 5. The iPhone 5S was being
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How about something totally not technical for once!? I think I’d rather use an Android phone than stop drinking coffee, so I thought it might be fun to look at my real addition: coffee. Let’s get deep. The BeansThe most important part of the coffee making process are
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Get them here! Wallpaper Weekend continues with a second set of wallpapers, this time inspired by the awesome grass wallpaper in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Apparently Steve Jobs took that photo, so I'm not going to suggest mine are better, but I will say that mine are higher
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Pick up the pack today! Today I'm excited to share my new wallpaper pack, Vibes. This collection of 11 wallpapers is designed to look great for people who like a bright wallpaper (or a dark one if that's your speed). I'm partial to vibes-5, but I think more people will
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This is really niche, I know, but if you are lurking on tech Twitter and want to start growing an audience via social media, writing, or video, I have one piece of advice I’d give to everyone: make your content additive, not negative. I don’t mean to say
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