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Stay Curious
Every Friday morning I open up Apple Music on my iPad and I scroll through the new music that came
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My Current Keyboard (Vortex Race 3)
I wouldn’t say I’m a mechanical keyboard fanatic, but I do like to have a keyboard that looks
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How Long it Takes Me to Make a YouTube Video
If you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been putting a lot of time into YouTube lately. How much, you may
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How Much Money I Made Selling Wallpapers Online
A few weeks ago I started selling a collection of wallpapers, and today I've made a video showing
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It’s Hard to Write Nice Things
I think many people would use the word “nice” to describe me. I’m not controversial, I’m not actively
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My Custom Theme for Drafts
I was inspired by the latest update to Drafts that added some pretty powerful theming options, so I made a
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My "Here Comes the Sun" Wallpaper Pack
If you like what you see, you can buy the whole package for $5.
So I'm trying something
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I Still Love Blogging on Ghost (or why one man’s BS is another man’s essential functionality)
In December 2019 I moved BirchTree over to Ghost (and away from WordPress), and a big part of my reasoning
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Matt Goes Back to the Mac? Sorta.
Last month I made this video in which I showed how I make my YouTube videos, and sheepishly showed off
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Give People a Reason to Stick Around
If I had one recommendation to people launching new web projects, it would be that you need to present value
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My Side Hustle Plans for 2021 (The State of BirchTree)
We’re almost to the new year, and I wanted to do a quick overview of how my numerous side
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Birch Bark has Moved to Substack
Check out the first issue over there (#46 total) and you can subscribe there if you have not already.
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My Quantified Life: 2020
Every other year I set up a quike survey for myself to take every night to track a few things
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And the Award goes To…
When I worked at Target, there was a list of 16 or so “personal leadership qualities” we worked from whenever
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Inadvertently Load-Testing This Site
Yesterday I wrote an article that attempted to capture the feelings I've seen from a lot of people
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I’m Out of the Photo Comparison Game
One of my trademark pieces of content on this site over the past few years have been photo comparisons, usually
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🎂 BirchTree Turns 10 (so let’s look at my embarrassing old designs)
It’s been a hell of a 10 years, and I am looking forward to the next 10. But while we’re here, let’s look back on some of the old designs of this site and cringe together.
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Why Newsletters?
There is a definite trend of email newsletters becoming the primary medium for writers who “go indie” recently. In years