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If you celebrate, Christmas is a time for spending time with family and friends. I'm spending the weekend with my family and am thrilled to be able to see people who I only ever get a chance to see this time of year. Sometimes it's easy to look at holidays like

Some people think that New Year's resolutions are stupid, but I really like them. It's good to take stock of what you're doing once in a while, and assess if you're doing the right things. I've gotten off to a slightly earlier start to this

Today marks the sixth anniversary of BirchTree 🎉. I'm frankly shocked this little hobby has lasted as long as it has, as the web is littered with old blogs I started and wrote 1-3 posts before giving up. I started this site when I was 24 years old, was just out of college

When I launched Today Weather back in August, I did so with the intention of using the web app as a proof of concept and understand 2 things: 1. Could I create a product people liked? 2. Was there interest out there for another weather app? The answer to both of these (thankfully) was yes.

I released my first major non-blog website on August 1 this year. It's called Today Weather and it's had a fairly good first 60 days. It got linked to by a few big tech sites and had a truly insane first couple of days. Usage has leveled off at a

The new iPhone will be announced tomorrow, which means many millions of us will be going online in the coming days to pre-order a new phone. Many of us bought a phone last year, just as we did the year before that and the year before that. I personally have owned every iPhone since

I’ve been producing less content for the site over the last few weeks, and I thought that deserved a quick explanation. I’m still working on creating the best content I can, but that work has shifted recently from generating daily articles about tech towards more long-term projects that don’t see the