Mastodawn

Reaching the "just ship the damn thing" point with a big project. For someone with a bunch of apps out there, this one makes me more anxious than any of them for some reason.

Matt Birchler 6h ago

I'm not the most heated liquid glass critic, but shit like this is why it riles people up so much. This is straight up barely-legible garbage.

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Matt Birchler 7h ago

Obviously, performance should always be on our minds as devs, but the incredibly performant hardware we tend to be working from can mask issues. Getting developers working on slower systems acts as a bit of a forcing function to get them to pay more attention to this, so that's nice.

Matt Birchler 7h ago

Here's a nice side effect of a bunch of developers falling irrationally in love with the MacBook Neo: performance optimization might be more front of mind.

I'm working on a little personal app that works great on my M4 Pro, MBP. Yesterday, I built the project on the Neo and suddenly realized that the performance is not nearly good enough on that device. This has led me to dive deeper into what the bottlenecks are and how I can improve them, and now the app is just faster everywhere.

Matt Birchler 20h ago

Jury Duty was great, and Company Retreat is the second season I didn't think was possible, but is somehow better than the original.

Matt Birchler 1d ago

People called me crazy in 2022 when I said side tabs were the best thing ever. Today, all browsers have them, including Chrome, and they've all basically copied Arc's homework on how to do them right.

https://birchtree.me/blog/chrome-gets-side-tabs/

Chrome gets side tabs

David Pierce: Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them The good news here is, you don’t have to take my word for it. Switching browsers is hard, and maybe you don’t want to do it just for vertical tabs. But update Chrome, right-click the tab

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Samsung is discontinuing it's messaging app…helping iPhone users get encrypted RCS

https://birchtree.me/blog/samsung-is-discontinuing-its-messaging-app-helping-iphone-users-get-encrypted-rcs/

Samsung is discontinuing it's messaging app…helping iPhone users get encrypted RCS

Last month, I wrote about how Apple is working on adding support for encrypted RCS messages between Apple Messages on iOS and Google Messages on Android. At the time, I said I hoped Apple would make this work with Samsung's messaging app as well so that basically all Americans could

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Matt Birchler 1d ago

Google ships their own Quick Notes 👀 https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/907778/google-ai-edge-eloquent-launch

Google has launched a free, offline AI dictation app that will automatically polish your speech.

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Matt Birchler 3d ago

I had to get a screenshot of it myself to make sure it was real.

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Matt Birchler 3d ago

Movie #31: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

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