Matt Birchler
birchtree.me
Matt Birchler
@birchtree.me
I'll tell you what. After doing a ton of iOS development over the past year, it is quite refreshing to have a customer report a bug on your web app and have the fix in production within minutes, not days.
February 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
iOS version should be rolling out shortly, but a really cool ChapterPod update just dropped that makes it way easier to lock in your chapter timings.

apps.apple.com/us/app/chapt...
February 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
🔗 + This one isn't a micro app… https://birchtree.me/blog/this-one-isnt-a-micro-app/
+ This one isn't a micro app…
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI
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February 1, 2026 at 3:10 PM
This would be pretty cool if it’s legit. Masking out parts of the screen at an angle is rad.

www.reddit.com/r/samsungga...
January 31, 2026 at 11:46 PM
How Sherman spends most days during the winter.
January 31, 2026 at 8:40 PM
After getting a shocking amount of interest in this micro-app when I talked about it a few weeks ago, I decided to polish it up and turn it into a real app anyone can use.

Here's Yearly Run Goals!

birchtree.me/blog/yearly...
January 28, 2026 at 1:04 PM
🔗 + Don’t call me a vibe coder https://birchtree.me/blog/dont-call-me-a-vibe-coder/
+ Don’t call me a vibe coder
I think I'm an early adopting into the future of mainstream development.
birchtree.me
January 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I recently disovered GitHub Pages, which lets me host several of my websites for free, and makes deploying changes to them as simple as pushing a PR to main.

To help others, I made a tutorial that walks you through the whole process, including DNS setup.

youtu.be/DB_PGpJFU1A
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I'm happy to announce ChapterPod, an app for adding chapters to podcast files, is now available to download!

I've been using this for about 6 months behind the scenes to do all the chapters for Comfort Zone, and it's easily the best tool for the job (for me, at least).
January 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The trouble with ads is that they're a money lever you can pull to generate free revenue gains.

They begin as a little thing here and there, then they multiply and start to look more like normal content. And you can never go back because line must always go up.

9to5mac.com/2026/01/16/...
Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and search results - 9to5Mac
Apple is testing a new design for App Store search ads on iPhone. Some users on iOS 26.3 are noticing...
9to5mac.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 PM