Matt Birchler
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
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Their wordsPeople are still creative – they will not stop making things.
↗+ How AI is pushing the open web into closed platformsbirchtree.me
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Their wordsBut today, everything has changed, and what we're asking these agents to do is far more complicated, and they are exponentially better at executing on these things.
↗Workbench is the best developer tool I've ever made (in beta now)birchtree.me
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Their wordsWhen I think about the Mac, I don’t see a single reason there couldn’t be a future device that looks a lot like an iPad.
↗Touch is the second most exciting part of the new MacBook Probirchtree.me
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Their wordsThe second thing, and the thing I think is even more important, is a version of macOS that fully supports touch. It doesn’t support touch only in a special mode, or for a limited set of interactions and UI elements. Touch is a first-class way to use macOS.
↗Touch is the second most exciting part of the new MacBook Probirchtree.me
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Our reading
Whatever is considered cool or cutting edge today will look silly a few decades from now.
Their wordsTo all the young people reading this, whatever you think is cool today or cutting edge today will look silly a few decades from now.
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Their wordsLast year, it really dawned on me how streaming music is basically socially-approved piracy. Unless you're an extremely successful artist, the payouts are so paltry, we may as well be pirating music.
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Their wordsSo yes, your corner of X may be very friendly, but the platform as a whole is not, and it's going to be especially unfriendly if you happen to fall into a category of people that the awful people on X don't like.
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Their wordsThis is certainly a compelling size for some people, but it's not a compelling size for everybody, and I continue to believe very strongly that an iPhone Duo Max is coming sooner rather than later.
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cybersecuritybehavioural science
Their wordsPasskeys are a very good solution, but people don't understand them and they're not something you can "hold in your hands", which has made passwords fundamentally appealing to a lot of people.
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Their wordsI can absolutely say that the algorithm has gotten way better over the last few months.
- 8 days earlier
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Their wordsin a world where it's impossible to make purely moral decisions in everything we do, we should all recognize where we're making trade-offs and not try to paint ourselves as being purely logical.
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Mastodon is experiencing a slow but steady decline in the number of people using the service.
Their wordsSince then, we've seen a slow but steady decline in number of people using Mastodon.
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Their wordsif your definition of "developer" only includes people writing all the code themselves, then you're not going to be able to call many people that for much longer.
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Their wordsThere's a chance, slim as it might be, that things won't go the way the've gone the last 30 years with digitization the moving to rental models for everyhing.
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Their wordsI really think a lot of iPhone owners are about to learn how a minor crease is not a big deal, and the "Apple will never ship a phone with a noticeable crease" folks will realize that a minor crease isn't a huge deal (even if it would be nice to totally eliminate one day).
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Their wordsI'm writing it simply to show that coincidences happen, correlation does not equal causation, and science is not anecdotal.
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Their wordsIf you're going to convince people that your phone is really listening to you and sharing every word you say with advertisers across the world, you need to do better than, "oh, there was this coincidence."
- 6 days earlier
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Their words2026 has been nothing if not a showcase after showcase of how angry (typically) right wing influencers and their social media lackeys are living in their own reality where they’re mad about things no one else is.
↗Resident Evil movie is widely adored and makes an ass-ton of moneybirchtree.me
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Apple's iPad app ecosystem gives the iPhone Duo an advantage over Android-based folding phones.
Their wordsApple's big advantage here compared to other folding phones on the market that are based on Android was the iPad ecosystem.
↗What my apps look like on the iPhone Duo with zero code changesbirchtree.me 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsapp developers don't have to start from square one and reconceptualize their apps for larger displays because a lot of them have already done that by supporting the iPad.
↗What my apps look like on the iPhone Duo with zero code changesbirchtree.me 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsiPhones always start out really high, and then after a couple minutes will throttle down and settle somewhere.
↗The iPhone 18 Pro is a transcription monsterbirchtree.me 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsthe MacBook Pro just starts going and will literally just keep in the same performance window from now until the end of time.
↗The iPhone 18 Pro is a transcription monsterbirchtree.me 2nd of 2 in this piece