This is the most niche thing I've ever shared, but if you write about or talk about iPhone and iPad apps a lot, then App Bottlerocket might be just what you've always wanted. I built this simple website a couple years ago and have been using it to get info
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Every Friday morning I open up Apple Music on my iPad and I scroll through the new music that came out overnight to see what’s new. Hardly a week goes by where I don’t add something to my library. Sometimes it’s something new from an artist I
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I wouldn’t say I’m a mechanical keyboard fanatic, but I do like to have a keyboard that looks nice and is enjoyable to type on at my desk. So without waxing poetic for 1,000 words on what I’m using, I’ll just get to the details
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If you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been putting a lot of time into YouTube lately. How much, you may ask? Well, I had the same question, so I did what any good nerd does and installed Toggl to track my work. What I TrackedI didn’t want to drive
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A few weeks ago I started selling a collection of wallpapers, and today I've made a video showing the raw sales numbers from that pack, and I broke down some info on what customers were more or less likely to buy them. Here's the video flow: How much money these
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I think many people would use the word “nice” to describe me. I’m not controversial, I’m not actively out to get anyone, and for better or worse, I generally want everyone to like me. That said, I often find it hard to think of something to write about
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I was inspired by the latest update to Drafts that added some pretty powerful theming options, so I made a theme I’m calling Warm and Bright. You can download it directly from the Drafts theme directory here. The theme is based around red and purple accents, with all colors
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If you like what you see, you can buy the whole package for $5. So I'm trying something new as a way to supplement my revenue on side-projects, and of course that means sharing it here! I've created a pack of 3 wallpapers…with 3 color variants…at 3 sizes
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In December 2019 I moved BirchTree over to Ghost (and away from WordPress), and a big part of my reasoning was: While there was nothing really killer, [WordPress] was simply starting to feel like a giant train I was barely holding on the tracks. I don’t want this site
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Last month I made this video in which I showed how I make my YouTube videos, and sheepishly showed off my 2012 Mac Mini that was the heart of the operation. I said in the video that I was getting by with it, and that I did not want to
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