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Using Zapier to Automate My Life Just Enough
I’ve never gotten into Zapier, mostly because it was too expensive (free plan, but you probably want to pay
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Use ScreenFlow Like a Pro with a Few Simple Tips
One of the most valuable apps on my Mac is ScreenFlow, which is a screen recorder and powerful video editor
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My Home Screen: May 2020
It’s been what feels like years since I’ve done one of these, so let’s do a deep
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6 Months Using Ghost for Blogging
It's been almost 6 months since I switched this site from WordPress to Ghost. It was the first
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Introducing Quick Inflation Calculator
I’m happy to announce my 2 day project, Quick Inflation Calculator!
I got the idea for this Wednesday night
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Enjoy Your HomePod Apple Music Playlist
Back when the HomePod was new, I made a playlist with a bunch of songs I thought would sound great on Apple's then new speaker. Since then, I'm not sure a day hs gone by without me getting a notification that someone has added that playlist to thier library. The thing
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Birchtree.css
Today I’m excited to announce Birchtree.css!
Birchtree.css is a a single, tiny CSS file you can use
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Quick Apple Weather + Dark Sky Mockup
I've had the itch to mock up something for a little while and Apple's recent acquisition
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COVID-19 and BirchTree (in four parts)
It’s an interesting time for tech blogging right now. A part of me is like “I’m going to
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Buying a Coffee
I wouldn’t say BirchTree has a business model. I run ads on this site through Carbon, which is pretty nice, especially for the slippery world of online ads, but my podcast, newsletter, and YouTube channels are all completely ad-free: I do these because I enjoy them, not because they’re financially lucrative.
In
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How I Build My Weekly Newsletter on an iPad
The third issue of my email newsletter, Birch Bark, will be hitting peoples’ inboxes tomorrow, and I wanted to take
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My PC Diary: Week 2
Well, it’s been almost 2 weeks since I got my new PC and wanted to give an update. Specifically, how well is it doing compared to the 4 primary needs I had for it?
1. $1,000-sh price tag
2. Great performance, specifically for Creative Cloud apps
3. Top shelf gaming potential
4.
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Birch Bark, Privacy, and Plans for the Future
Some stuff I probably should have covered when launching last week, oops! No surprises here though, so hopefully everything is exactly as you assumed it was.
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Not Selling the Computer I Want
Dude.
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Introducing Birch Bark: An Email Newsletter Experiment
Sign up here!
I’m not a big fan of putting substantial writing in newsletters (way to kick off a
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Recent Podcast Appearances
You know this already if you follow me on Twitter, but in case you don’t I wanted to share a few podcasts I’ve had the pleasure of guesting on in the past week.
A Slab of Glass
Chris, Jeff, and I talked about how we use our iPads and tried to cram this
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Something I Love About Books (there isn’t a Tomometer)
The recent debut of Apple TV+ gave me a chance to publicly roll my eyes at Rotten Tomatoes for the way I feel it reduces all semblance thoughtful criticism into a puree of thought replaced by a singular score. While I do use the site sometimes to get a ballpark on how a movie was
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My Shortcut for Writing Quick Link Posts in Ulysses
Download the Shortcut here.
Writing link posts isn’t that hard, but it does involve a lot of manual copy