A collection of 207 posts
It's been nearly a year since my last wallpaper pack…inspiration just wasn't striking me, but the iOS 16 lock screen customization was just the kick I needed to get another pack out there. I'm really happy with how this turned out, especially on
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
The image at the top of this post shows a general timeline for this blog in terms of what blogging engine I used for it over the years. The Years of Chaos The first 5 years of this site was absolute chaos. I moved from host to host and platform
I've been waiting years for Ghost to add search as a tool I can use on my site, and I had basically given up on it ever coming, but surprise, surprise, an update last week added this! Not only does this solve my problem, it solved it with
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
I've been running A Better Computer for 2 years now, and I've published around 260 videos at this point. As with any creative endeavor, there's a range of success each of these videos have achieved, but what may surprise you is that 4 of
This is my keyboard, the Keychron Q1, and I've been using it for about a year, but it's changed a good deal from the product I originally got in the mail. I've gone more and more down the rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards, and
It’s been 18 days since I’ve used Twitter, and I think I’ve hit the point where I feel like I’m missing it enough to venture back. In those 18 days I’ve posted here a ton, have made great strides with figuring out what I want
2 weeks ago today I decided that I wasn’t having fun on Twitter anymore, so I took a break, and outside of posting a couple movie and book reviews, I literally have not gone on to see what’s happening (if you’ve @‘d or DMd me, I’m
I'm pretty solidly in the Apple camp across my phone, tablet, watch, and desktop, and Apple's ecosystem famously makes that experience better the more you go all in on their products. There's nothing wrong with this, and it's a big reason for
I was super happy when I got to write this for The Sweet Setup! We love keyboards here at The Sweet Setup (proof here, here, here, and yes, here), especially mechanical keyboards, so today we’re going to walk through the basic things you need to know when shopping for
Welcome to the latest look for Birchtree! I wanted the site to get a bit more adventurous, maybe even a bit more divisive. I hope most of you like the new look, but I'm honestly okay with some people not digging it. If this site were a big
The world is tough if you are someone who is prone to switch apps. It seems like there's something new every week that someone wants you to get excited about, and even I, someone who runs a YouTube channel dedicated to explaining new things, find it impossible to
I'm not really convinced when people say that things like Discord or Slack are a good replacement for Twitter. "Angry about Twitter? Why not find a good Discord?" I keep hearing this, but no thanks. This has nothing to do with Discord being bad, I use
I moved Birchtree from Wordpress to Ghost back in December 2019 and just over 2 years into the move, I can say I'm exceptionally happy with my decision. I don't have a big article to back this up, and I don't think Ghost is