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I've devoted a lot of my online presence in recent years to talking about movies and music. I've always been passionate about these things, but my perspective on them has changed over the years. When I was younger (like many people) I felt like I could
I've been doing my 365 Albums project for 7 months now, and sometimes people ask how I create these posts. Do I automate it? Do I use an app that generates the headers? How do I track everything? Well, I decided to do a quick walk through of
Back in 2019 I wrote The Biggest Change to Birchtree in 5 Years, which explained my move from WordPress to Ghost. 4 years later, I'm still very happy with Ghost, but I'd worked myself into a bit of a "thermal corner" if you will.
Mona is currently in beta, it's launching officially in May, and in most ways I think it's the best Mastodon app for me. I love the customization it offers, and its sync features are extremely quick and reliable. But I still find myself using Ivory sometimes
It feels like it's been ages since I was really excited about a new technology category. If you've only(!) followed this blog for the past 5 years, you may think "this guy doesn't like anything," and I don't blame you.
Quick Reviews is a little passion project of mine. It's one of those apps that someone makes to solve their needs, and they release it just in case someone else finds it useful. I'm happy to report that numerous people use the site, but I am
I saw this article about $30 million worth of Funko Pop figures needing to be destroyed pass by in my feed today. I don't own any Funko Pops and they've just never quite appealed to me. I see them everywhere, but I just haven't
Today I'm excited to announce my newest project which is…a YouTube channel! It's called Nineties Kids Gaming, and if your formative years playing video games were in the 90s and early 2000s like me, then I think you're going to love it. The
Jamison Foser: The New York Times Invents a Biden Scandal -- And the Public's Reaction Stop and think about that for a second. Why would this be true? If the two cases are “markedly different,” why would Democrats “have a hard time using Trump’s mishandling of classified
For as long as I can remember, this blog has automatically posted to its @_BirchTree account on Twitter so that people could follow my site without following all the other things I would tweet about on my @mattbirchler account. Times change, and I'm no longer using Twitter. I&
We've come to the end of another year, and due to decisions I've made over the years, I have a ton of subscriptions come up for renewal right around Christmas (this very domain renews today!), so here's what I'm doubling down on
Looking back on the year, there's no question in my mind what product connected with me the most; the Valve Steam Deck is triumph. There were a ton of very good tech products that came into my life this year, so what makes the Steam Deck special? For
I started chronicling my quest to watch 100 movies in 2022 over on Twitter and have picked it up on Mastodon recently, and one question no one asked, but I feel compelled to answer here near the end of the year is: why the hell am I trying to watch
I think it was the moment I saw Elon use a tweet to mock the employees he just fired that I was done with Twitter for the foreseeable future. I'm just not interested in further enriching the richest man in the world, especially when I don't
I posted the above photo to Twitter last night: Going to bed after a long day where I used my phone a ton and never charged it up...54% battery left. I want the smaller iPhone, but this battery is going to be hard to give up. One reasonable response