(not) solitaire
Despite its name, (not) solitaire is indeed solitaire (draw 2 cards, not 3 though), but with other people playing alongside
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I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.
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A beautiful read-later service for articles that matter.
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Quick Reviews
MacStories Best New App of 2025
Review the things you love and share them to social media.
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nonogame
Three fresh nonogram puzzles every day, in your browser.
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Birchfeed
Rock solid RSS syncing for the reader app you already use.
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Chapterize
Professional podcast chapters, made while you listen.
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Quick Subtitles
Fast, private, on-device transcription to text or SRT.
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Quick Notes
Voice to text with Apple's on-device language models.
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Yearly Run Goals
Yearly distance goals for running, cycling, and more.
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Weave
Typefully on iOS: threads, scheduling, publish everywhere.
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Best-o-Masto
Catch up without getting sucked in. Mastodon, efficiently.
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Blog
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+ Pastry is a privacy-focused clipboard manager coming soon
Yes, I'm working on a clipboard manager. I think it's pretty cool.
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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
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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,
Mac buttons over the years
This cool little site lets you scrub through the design of macOS buttons from 1984 through today. I gotta say,
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+ Tesla Cybertaxi first impressions
I rode in one last week. Here are my impressions.
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+ Do you want to cross the streams?
Obviously probably not, but also…maybe?