meta Taking the Week Off I'm on a business trip in Whitefish, Montana this week, so don't expect much, if anything 21 Jan
meta Tracking My Movies and Books in 2020 with Letterboxd and GoodReads Part of my “New Year’s resolutions” (for lack of a better description) was to track what media I consumed 17 Jan
meta How I’m Using Notion to Track my Life in 2020 I know articles and video on Notion are a dime a dozen, but after years of being totally befuddled by 01 Jan
meta Recession…Revitalization 2019 was the first year ever that BirchTree saw fewer visitors than the year before. Needless to say, after 8 31 Dec
meta 21 Books in 2019 I set out to read 20 books in 2019 and today, on the final day of the year, I have 31 Dec
meta Today’s “Podcast”: Take a Minute to Think I love podcasts and audiobooks. They help me learn about the world and be generally entertained effectively all the time. 19 Dec
meta The Biggest Change to BirchTree in 5 Years In 2015 I moved BirchTree to WordPress. I had danced with Squarespace and some static site generators before that, but 13 Dec
meta My 10 Favorite Movies of the Decade As you get older, it’s harder for movies to have the same impact on you that they did when 15 Nov
meta My Favorite Video Games of the Past Decade 1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild I’ve said a lot on this game already, so seriously, 08 Nov
meta My 10 Favorite Albums of the Decade It’s the end of the decade and I love lists, so today I’m starting a series of lists 03 Nov
meta BirchTree is 9! (belated) I’m so bad at celebrating BirchTree’s anniversaries, so this post on a Tuesday night 12 days after the 29 Oct
meta The Delicate Nature of Comparing Smartphone Cameras and a Dash of False Equivalence Here’s how most smartphone camera comparisons go: 1. Frame up two phones with the same shot 2. Take photo 14 Oct
meta How to Make a Quick and Dirty Dark Mode for Your Website You can find this all over the web these days, but dark mode is important and I figured I’d 30 Sep
meta A Downside to All These Dang Streaming Services Apple Arcade Seems Like The Future Of Gaming, For Better Or Worse - Kotaku Maddy: I have guilt about these 27 Sep
Links My Own Claim Chowder John Gruber’s “claim chowder” is one of my favorite running gags in the Apple blogging world, and I thought 09 Sep
Links A New Look for Quick BIN Lookup Most of you probably don’t know, but I run a small, but shockingly popular credit card BIN lookup site 10 Aug
meta Feeling it Again (Summer Break is Over) In the middle of June I mentioned on my podcast that I was going to take a bit of a 27 Jul
Game Why Breath of the Wild is Absolutely Brilliant: Part 1 https://youtu.be/WYEcRWpXFdc I'm taking a break from the Persona series to talk about what I' 20 Jun