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Matt Birchler

@matt_birchler@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-16

Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/ABetterComputer
Birchtree:
https://birchtree.me
Comfort Zone Podcast:
https://www.macstories.net/comfort-zone/

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Matt Birchler
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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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Matt Birchler
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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

This hits hard.

@hey.tones@www.threads.com

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026
In our community, we talk quite a bit about how Tim Cook seemingly likes Donald Trump, but Ben Thompson is out here doing the hard work every single time Trump does anything controversial to defend it. When the FCC was threatening to take away CBS's broadcast license because of Jimmy Kimmel's speech, Ben Thompson chose to say nothing about that and instead wrote an article about some very minor request a Biden staffer made to Twitter years ago.
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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

I hope one day that people who think "oh man, I didn't think this would get political" realize that they're just not in a marginalized group.

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

I continue to think, despite my wish there was some scrappy smaller company doing it better, that Google has the best calendar (and email) service out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9NY88Hf1Ns

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

The apps “nobody wants” are now the top 3 apps on the App Store 👀

Grok, of course is 15th, which is the go-to chatbot for creeps who want to undress women and live in an alternate reality.

https://birchtree.me/blog/that-thing-nobody-was-asking-for/

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

New members post just dropped where I talk about why I think the Tim Cook quote about not turning the Mac into a combination refrigerator/toaster is actually a rejection of what makes the Mac great.

https://birchtree.me/blog/tim-cooks-refrigerator-toaster-combo-quote-is-irrelevant-today-stop-using-it/

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

RE: @ikenndac@mastodon.social

The trouble with wanting a good Mac app is that you quickly learn just how awful other password managers’ Mac apps are. Truly, you’re not prepared 🫠

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

A completely different title that also would have worked for my "Apple will kill iPadOS" post.

https://birchtree.me/blog/soon-everything-will-be-an-ipad/

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Feb 13, 2026

Also just a reminder that you can easily adjust chapter timings in the transcript editor. This works on the iPhone and iPad as well.

Anyway, download ChapterPod here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chapterpod/id6757309769

And read the full release blog here https://birchtree.me/blog/chapterpod-1-3-is-out-now/

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social I actually read to myself. I have my text-to-speech implementation in Drafts set to use my personal voice. https://docs.getdrafts.com/docs/editor/text-to-speech
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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social I actually don't agree that Apple's voices are that bad though. At least if you download the "enhanced" versions
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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Jan 30, 2026
@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Maybe I need to update how I'm playing back the audio or something. I had ElevenLabs and Groq implementations working, and swapped in Apple's voices when I saw the real cost of using those. Maybe there's some user error here I haven't noticed yet.
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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social the founder of Kind is a beloved alum of where my kid is at college. I was starting to think free Kind bars were available everywhere.
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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Dec 15, 2025
@agiletortoise@mastodon.social They just gave them away? That’s a nice perk, but yeah, doesn’t exactly set realistic expectations 😅
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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social

Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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Product manager/designer at NMI, YouTuber, writer, and podcaster

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social · Nov 15, 2025
@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe Reaaaaly enjoyable!
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