Dive deep enough into the world of Merino wool and ‘technical’ clothing in general, and you’ll soon find yourself on Outlier’s site. I’ve talked before about their Futureworks, Strongworks, S120 Pivot Shirt, and New Ways shorts, today I want to talk about one of the shirts they consider a “core” item, the Ultrafine Merino T-Shirt.
First, it’s $100. Know that going into this.
Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai:
In other words, 1Password really wants you to stop using its local storage version, though Hicks also added that the company is not planning to “remove support for local/Dropbox/iCloud vaults from the software,” at least for now.
It’s a bit confusing what the fuck is going on with 1Password, but it seems as though sooner or later you are going to be forced to 1Password.com. At which point, they will no longer be the app I use.
Shoot me your suggestions.
David Vo:
Then, travelers saw the light. The textile gods extolled the virtues of merino wool. Could a natural fiber beat laboratory-born inventions like nylon and polyester? And at a price point of some $60 just for a t-shirt, is it worth paying this high price of admission to enter Merino Club? Let’s get stuck into the details.
The only reason you’re not wearing merino all day, is because you haven’t tried it yet.
Om Malik on downsizing his device:
Over past few months, I have been experiencing increasing pain in my left wrist and thumb. Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night in extreme pain. I thought it was a broken bone or something like that. I mean it was painful and it forced me to visit my doctor According to my doctor is because of overusing my left thumb on the phone.
I love the argument he makes for buying a phone which fits your hands. I know exactly the pain he speaks of, because I had that with my iPhone 3GS. Those smaller phones always forced me to use just one hand, and my thumb felt like it was broke more than a few times.
Since switching to the larger plus model iPhones, I tend to use both hands on the device far more often — and I think that has alleviated this pain. I’ve only felt it once or twice in the past few years.
I do wonder what the long term solution here is.
I now have an entire family of GORUCK bags living in my closet, next to other bags. However only 5 bags are in active rotation, so here’s how I use my current bag rotation:
It’s astounding to me how many people are completely in love with the 10.5” iPad Pro. Be sure to [read my thoughts on it](https://brooksreview.net/2017/07/the-ipad-that-should-have-been/), if you haven’t already.
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The GR2 34L is an interesting bag — it sits in the area between something you might consider a large everyday bag, and something you also consider a small travel bag. I’ve always been fascinated by this, so when a friend decided to get rid of his, I jumped at the chance to take it off his hands.
Something I have been consistently hearing from people over the last couple weeks: “The 10.5” iPad Pro is really good, it’s every bit as big as you need it to be, without ever being too big.” (I am paraphrasing about 6 people, and countless “yeah totally” blog posts.) I feel this too, while it looks like only a tiny size bump, the 20% more screen makes all the difference in use.
Shawn Blanc:
My biggest quibble with Ulysses right now is the way it handles images. If the image is inline with a note, you see an
IMGmarkdown tag. Or, an image can be attached to a note, but otherwise not shown inline. It’d be great to be able to have images displayed inline.
I see this complaint a lot. I don’t disagree with it, but I also don’t agree with it. When I am focused on writing — not having to scroll by a bunch of images makes editing much easier. However, when I am editing, sometimes I like to see the images to make sure they flow properly.
You can do this with previewing the page, which is nice, but then you can’t easily edit the text (especially not on iOS). I’d propose something like Slack’s collapse command, where you can toggle showing images inline with a keyboard shortcut. That would be killer.
I’ve been using Forecast Bar for my main weather app for quite some time, but it started to feel dated. On top of that it wasn’t showing me data in the way I would hope to see it. I asked around and Justin Blanton pointed me to Hello Weather.
It looks a bit, umm, silly at first glance, but after using it for a couple months — it’s easily the best weather app on the market. I’ve tried a lot of weather apps in the past, but I can tell you right now this is the one to get. I immediately bought a lifetime membership for it.
This week I cover the basics of what you need for general computing on the iPad, and then I take a comparison look at scanning with Notes on iOS 11.
## Back to Basics
It’s been over 6 months now since I started writing these weekly posts, and in that time a lot of new members have joined (welcome, all) — it seems like a good time to step back from each week having a specific focus. So this week I want to go back to the basics of working on an iPad to talk about how I do many of the more general “work” things one does on a computer.
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M.G. Siegler:
In a weird way, I almost feel like the 10.5″ iPad seems more like a smaller 12.9″ iPad versus a larger 9.7″ one.