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Some Very Small UI Tweaks I'd Love to See in Mona
Mona is currently in beta, it's launching officially in May, and in most ways I think it'
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After Years of Feeling Like a Downer on Tech, I'm Finally Excited Again
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.
* Crypto has a shitty culture
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Quick Reviews 2.0 is Out Now
Quick Reviews is a little passion project of mine. It's one of those apps that someone makes to
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Let People Like Things
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 been tempted to get into
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Introducing Nineties Kid Gaming!
Today I'm excited to announce my newest project which is…a YouTube channel! It's called Nineties
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An Unyielding Advocate for Users
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 papers against him”? The only way
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I'm Turning Off Twitter Cross-Posting
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'm also not terribly
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Doubling Down on Subs I Love, Leaving Others behind
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 in 2023, as well as
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Steam Deck is My 2022 Product of the Year
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 me it's more
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Why the Hell am I Watching 100 Movies in 2022?
I started chronicling my quest to watch 100 movies in 2022 over on Twitter and have picked it up on
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I'm Done with Musk, See You Later, Twitter
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 agree with almost anything he
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The Argument for Excess Battery
I posted the above photo to Twitter last night:
Going to bed after a long day where I used my
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Two Twenty Two: Wallpapers for iOS 16
It's been nearly a year since my last wallpaper pack…inspiration just wasn't striking me, but
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I Don't Understand Ad Tech
The internet likes to make us all experts on anything. You see this all the time on social media where people post with the confidence of experts on things they just learned about 5 minutes prior. In the Apple community, it's amazing how many people go from being experts on UX to cars
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Absolutely Do Not Change Your Blogging Platform (unless you have to)
The image at the top of this post shows a general timeline for this blog in terms of what blogging
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In Praise of Ghost's Native Search Feature
I've been waiting years for Ghost to add search as a tool I can use on my site,
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Vivaldi is a Hyper-Power User Browser
You're truly over on The Sweet Setup:
Vivaldi takes a “more is more” view of features, as the defining characteristic of this browser is that it has everything you can think of (and probably more). What makes Vivaldi fundamentally appealing is that you can change almost everything about it, often in ways that
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My Most Popular YouTube Videos
I've been running A Better Computer for 2 years now, and I've published around 260 videos