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Taking the Week Off
I'm on a business trip in Whitefish, Montana this week, so don't expect much, if anything
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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
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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
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Recession…Revitalization
2019 was the first year ever that BirchTree saw fewer visitors than the year before.
Needless to say, after 8
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21 Books in 2019
I set out to read 20 books in 2019 and today, on the final day of the year, I have
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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BirchTree is 9! (belated)
I’m so bad at celebrating BirchTree’s anniversaries, so this post on a Tuesday night 12 days after the
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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
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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
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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
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My Own Claim Chowder
John Gruber’s “claim chowder” is one of my favorite running gags in the Apple blogging world, and I thought
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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
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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
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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'