Mastodon
Birchtree
Developer and creator.
⌘K
Subscribe Sign in
Birchtree
Welcome to Birchtree

Welcome to Birchtree

I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.

My Apps

View all
Quick Reads A beautiful read-later service for articles that matter. Web iOS Extensions Web Quick Reviews MacStories Best New App of 2025 Review the things you love and share them to social media. iPhone iPad Mac App Store nonogame Three fresh nonogram puzzles every day, in your browser. Web iPhone Web Birchfeed Rock solid RSS syncing for the reader app you already use. Web Any RSS reader Web Chapterize Professional podcast chapters, made while you listen. iPhone iPad Mac App Store Quick Subtitles Fast, private, on-device transcription to text or SRT. iPhone iPad Mac App Store Quick Notes Voice to text with Apple's on-device language models. iPhone iPad App Store Yearly Run Goals Yearly distance goals for running, cycling, and more. iPhone App Store Weave Typefully on iOS: threads, scheduling, publish everywhere. iPhone Web Best-o-Masto Catch up without getting sucked in. Mastodon, efficiently. iPhone App Store

Blog

View all

Smart person derangement

I'd like to coin a term: smart person derangement. There are people who are very smart. Sometimes they're smart in a specific field or they are just generally pretty damn intelligent. Either way, they're clever and importantly, they've become aware that they're smart. This on
Links

How to become a mark for con artists

Hank Green in a video about Theranos: We should not be complacent about the ways in which our world sucks. But if we're convinced that everything sucks and it's because people are terrible and nothing works when that's obviously not true, then we become the marks for con artists.
Meta

Birchtree is 16 years old today (and the nicest thing someone said to me this year)

Today marks 16 years since my first post on Birchtree. I was a scrappy 24-year-old who was stuck in a mindlessly uninteresting and low-paying job, but I loved technology. 16 years later, I don’t exactly know why I pulled the trigger on creating this blog, but I definitely know I’d

(not) solitaire

(not) solitaire
Despite its name, (not) solitaire is indeed solitaire (draw 2 cards, not 3 though), but with other people playing alongside
Members

+ Pastry is a privacy-focused clipboard manager coming soon

+ Pastry is a privacy-focused clipboard manager coming soon
Yes, I'm working on a clipboard manager. I think it's pretty cool.
Links

I don't care what other kids are doing

Lex Friedman: A few more thoughts on why embracing X is wrong “The Ellisons are bad, too” is a great argument for paying attention to the Ellisons. It’s not an argument for X. I remember one time as a teenager my parents sat me down in the living room to discuss something bad I
Links

Why does this chart just go down?

Why does this chart just go down?
M.G. Siegler: Twitter is Back. Shhh… Magic Dance! But it's also not really a surge in usage,