The journey and the destination
If you’re a painter, do you just enjoy having the painting finished, or do you also get joy from the process of creating
Hi, I'm Matt. I *make apps* and *write about tech*.
I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.
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Quick Reads
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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Workbench
A lean Mac terminal for working across many projects with Claude Code.
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Open source
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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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Any RSS reader
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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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Picked by me
Workbench is the best developer tool I've ever made (in beta now)
Agentic coding has grown quite a bit since I started dabbling in this two years ago. We used to request tiny changes to functions
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+ I need to enjoy more art
You can't always be fully switched on.
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What what was once hard becomes easy, what do you do?
+ How AI is pushing the open web into closed platforms
People are still creative – they will not stop making things. Where they make those things is an open question.
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My mental trick to not buy things
Maybe this is dumb and I'm literally the only person who this is effective for, but I wanted
The journey and the destination
If you’re a painter, do you just enjoy having the painting finished, or do you also get joy from
Micro app 22: Settling In
I got a new Mac a couple days ago and I had that age-old question that people have when
Workbench is cooking
A couple updates have gone out for Workbench since my last update here, and while complete release notes are available
+ I need to enjoy more art Members
You can't always be fully switched on.
PROLED is here and I'm touching it
I have one of the new MacBook Pros in hand, and today's podcast is all about what stood