I won’t say that I have tried all the wipes out there, but of the ones that I have tried, I like these. They have three things going for them:
Both my wife and I prefer these to any other wipes we would buy.
I finally picked a couple of these up for the family and they are super nice. That’s why I am telling you about them now that picnic season is well over. Hmm.
Anyways, I thought the biggest issue would be folding them back up into the little pouch, but that’s no issue. The blanket has little guides sewn in which work really well. Very happy with this blanket.
Best of all, I can keep two of them in the car and you wouldn’t know it.
Bradley Chambers:
For a service I pay for, Evernote had become quite annoying. Instead of making its core features even better, it adding features like Work Chat, and became seriously annoying with notifications about explaining new features….over and over again.
Note: This item was provided to me from Incase for the purpose of this review.
There’s really two extremes to bag design, the first is a big vast pit in which to throw things — like a duffle bag. The other end of the spectrum is bags that have a pocket for each specific thing, perfectly tailored to those items: pens, business cards, laptop, charger, Kindle, tablet, and the list can go on and on.
Most the the bags which I have tested to date, fall on the side of being a large open bag. They typically are not well structured bags, and they typically are not solely designed to carry electronics.
Over on The Syndicate, we published the second part of Nick Keppol’s deep dive on San Francisco — and man did I learn some stuff about the typeface.
Neil Hughes:
The only time you should force an app to close is if it becomes unresponsive or erratic.
Preach it.
The events of the past few days have brought to light, and to my personal attention, many new facts and stories I did not previously know about the person going by the name “Samantha Bielefeld” and because of this new evidence I have a much different take on the situation. I still believe many valid points were made by this person, and that gendered and personal attacks are never warranted — I stand by that.
However, given what I now know I cannot in good conscience continue to defend this person. I apologize for my misplaced trust and hope to elaborate on this more at a later time. I have a long standing policy of not deleting posts once they are published, and that policy still stands. Again, my apologies. You all trust me, and in this circumstance I have failed you.
Often, as writers, we end up with a mix of: good, mediocre, and sometimes bad stuff out there in the world for others to see. I know I have my fair share of it on this site. What usually follows the mediocre and bad, is a sense of regret.
I cannot stand to have something wrong on this site. Even if at the time I thought I was dead right, it bugs me knowing it is there, and regret sets in. That doesn’t mean I regret having ever written something, but that I regret being wrong. It’s certainly an egotistical view, but I think it is true for most who publish online, whether in tweets or on a blog.
Matt Gemmell:
That was a shitty thing for me to do, because having a following doesn’t just make patronage work, or let you take creative risks in product monetisation; it’s also a responsibility.
Now, that sucks, because you can’t possibly be held accountable for the actions of every sociopath who happened to click the Follow button on your Twitter profile. You can’t.
I am so glad he wrote this. I’ve been struggling with a similar post, but Matt has said it far better than I could have. Well done.
UPDATE 11-25-15: As with the other posts on this matter the new evidence coming forward calls into question the motives of the individual in such a way that I no longer feel as many people were, or are, in the wrong as they were.
Over the years of writing here, I have tried just about every analytics package I could get my hands on. WordPress analytics, Google analytics, Reinvigorate, Clicky, Gaug.es, Mint, Piwik — the list goes on. Honestly, it doesn’t really matter what the list is — I think most people assume that if you run a website, you need analytics on it. You need analytics to negotiate with advertisers, or because everyone else does it. I’ve never seen any other concrete reasons why.
Great post, summarizing the irrational attacking of a writer for sharing level-headed criticism. Welch calls out many here who should be ashamed.
You absolutely need to read this.
If I’m honest, I’m ashamed I did not catch what was going on until it was far too late. I like to think that I could have helped more.
UPDATE 11-25-15: While the analysis of this linked article is still valid, the attacks made against this person — attacks which did not center around gender — look in hindsight to be rational given recent events.
I've been using Notes.app since I installed the first iOS 9 beta. It's truly good. (Though that texturing and text shadows look hideous.)
Fantastic read.
Cerebral Gardens has released Rudoku which is a crazy number game. I’ve been lucky enough to have been playing it, and it is equal parts frustrating and amazing. Frustrating in that you think you are about to win and then — nope.
I love the game and it is well worth your time to check out. It’s fast to learn and anything but mind numbing. It’s one of the few games I keep on my iPhone.
Another great title from a co-worker. Go get it.
Samantha Bielefeld:
The issue isn’t that Marco is successful, there are many app developers who would love to be in the same position. He has earned his time in the spotlight, and it’s only natural for him to take advantage of it. Though to state that anyone can simply do the same thing and be successful, is just plain wrong.
Some great points in here, something about Overcast’s new pricing model has felt off with me since I read about it. I think a lot of it is encapsulated in Bielefeld’s post.
Launching apps, even if you have a name, is incredibly hard. What helps Arment is not so much that he can get the press coverage, but that his core audience is larger than most people’s. And it is that core audience which will spend money on whatever you do.
(BTW, if you aren’t reading Bielefeld’s blog, there’s no better time to start.)
UPDATE 11-25-15: While I think this linked post still makes very solid points, I can no longer in good conscience recommend reading the original source content’s author.
For posterity the original link point to: http://samanthabielefeld.com/journal/the-elephant-in-the-room
I used to keep a page on this site to sell this stuff, but I really wanted a better storefront for it. So, of course I had to get a new domain. I am super proud of the domain.
A few items on there now, more to be added later this week.
Oh, this is going to be fun to watch play out.
I wonder if this is the signal that moving forward, Apple will be all TSMC chips.
A common refrain when people try to encourage others to buy mobile apps is to say things like: look your Starbucks “latte” cost you $4 and you will finish it inside of 30 minutes (one hopes), but this app is $1.99 and you will use it for months — if not years. Clearly the better value is the app, not the Starbucks.
That’s the common argument.
I’ve already shown you how I have used a Nock to carry cables, and another small snippet about the GORUCK Wire Dopp. The truth is that I have been really struggling to find a good way to hold my cables since I started carrying a computer regularly — that’s about 2000 or so.
Everything option out there is just odd. It’s like a clear glass desk — as I have written before — they look fabulous, but they suck in practice. Likewise, every case is too big, too small, or too poorly designed, but most look cool.
I also use a small bag most of the time, but need to scale up to larger sized bags when I travel. I am a mess. I am all over the place. And because of this I have amassed a large collection of cable carrying things.
I figured why not take a look at all of them.
Mitchel Broussard:
The takeaway from Morrison and Evans’ videos today seems to be that while intense cases like synthetic Geekbench tests designed to push devices to their limits revealed as high as a 22% difference in battery life between devices using the two chips, real-world impacts may be much smaller depending on the mix of activities. In these specific usage patterns shown above, battery life differences between the two processors ranged from 6% to 11%.
Still glad I have the TSMC chip. Wonder if this is the nail in the coffin for Samsung making AX series chips for Apple.
Stephen Hackett on the best pocket computer on the market:
The 5.5 inch, 401 ppi display isn’t just beautiful, but I find the additional space (and increased battery capacity) useful as this is the most-used device I own. Thankfully, every year, my pocket computer gets better, right on schedule.
He gets it.