A collection of 207 posts
Intro First things first, I am a strong believe in the idea of “offloading your brain” into a task management system. This means everything I need to do in the future, and I do mean everything, gets logged as a task in my task manager. I find this frees up
The internet enables us to talk to each other about anythings we want at all times. You have the unusual pleasure of having access to the world’s information at all times, giving you opportunities to learn, to grow, and to share that growth with others. You have the freedom
I’ve never gotten into Zapier, mostly because it was too expensive (free plan, but you probably want to pay for the premium tier) and it didn’t make sense to use when free services like IFTTT existed and I felt did the same thing. Well, I recently started using
One of the most valuable apps on my Mac is ScreenFlow, which is a screen recorder and powerful video editor rolled into one. I love this app, and I use it basically every single day at my day job to make video tutorials or even tiny GIFs that I use
It’s been what feels like years since I’ve done one of these, so let’s do a deep dive into my iPhone home screen. And before you ask, I can’t in good conscience share the wallpaper, but you can get it by supporting The Iconfactory on Patreon.
It's been almost 6 months since I switched this site from WordPress to Ghost. It was the first platform change I had made in like 5 years, and it was a non-trivial task that worked out in the end, but had some turbulence along the way. I chronicled
I’m happy to announce my 2 day project, Quick Inflation Calculator! I got the idea for this Wednesday night and did about 3 hours of dev work on this seriously MVP site, but I think it’s already better than all the other sites out there for this basic
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
Today I’m excited to announce Birchtree.css! Birchtree.css is a a single, tiny CSS file you can use to add some quick, easy style to your web page. This if far from something like Bootstrap, and if you’re building a full website, then that will do you
I've had the itch to mock up something for a little while and Apple's recent acquisition of Dark Sky was the perfect inspiration to do something in the weather app space. This is a quick mock up, and took about 2 hours this afternoon, so no,
It’s an interesting time for tech blogging right now. A part of me is like “I’m going to be working from home for the foreseeable future, and going out is frowned upon, so I’ll have tons of writing time,” but another part of me is thinking “there
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’
The third issue of my email newsletter, Birch Bark, will be hitting peoples’ inboxes tomorrow, and I wanted to take a bit of time to show how I build the email every week. Requirements I need to have a block of HTML that I can paste into a MailChimp template,
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
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.