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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. 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 Workbench A lean Mac terminal for working across many projects with Claude Code. Mac Open source GitHub 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

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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

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+ I need to enjoy more art You can't always be fully switched on. + Think bigger 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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Workbench is cooking

A couple updates have gone out for Workbench since my last update here, and while complete release notes are available