Markham Heid:
One recent study examined the links between Facebook use and wellbeing. “We found that the more you use Facebook over time, the more likely you are to experience negative physical health, negative mental health and negative life satisfaction,” says study author Holly Shakya, assistant professor and social media researcher at the University of California, San Diego.
Good article.
Interesting review given that he is coming from my top bag choice, the GR1. If there’s one complaint I heart about the GR1, it’s the weight, but that weight is what makes it so damn good to carry. You don’t notice the weight on your back, but you do notice it when you pick up that damn bag.
Minaal is a brand I’ve never used and one I am constantly asked about. In reading Arslan’s review, I was surprised he concluded by liking it. Though, I’ll admit, the Star Trek comment made me want to try it.
Fantastic set of testing for blade steels. Really interesting to see where things like S30V and S35VN fall in comparison to M390 (my current favorite steel). Be sure to read part 2 as well.
Eugene Kan:
In the words of Abe: “We don’t see ourselves as a lifestyle brand. We don’t focus on it too much. Apple doesn’t care who buys it, they focus on making the best possible product. You can do whatever you want with it. It’s not like if you buy it you’ll look like a surfer or the hottest skater. You buy Outlier to open the range of your possibilities. We’re not selling an identity or way of life. We let you choose your own life. You can do what you want and the clothes will follow you and work.” It’s an interesting take when most strong brands in the modern era are predicated on selling a particularly idyllic way of life.
For those thinking it’s nuts I love Outlier clothing so much, this article explains it well. You can go from a hike to a nice dinner in the same clothes, and socially fit in both places, all the while being comfortable in both places.
I may not use the Mac anymore, but Transmit is one hell of an app. This one adds Rackspace support, which gives me oh so much hope that this support with come to iOS.
Lily Hay Newman:
“It can process 12 billion transactions per day on one machine. If you take something like Cyber Monday there’s probably about 30 million transactions that go on,” says Barlow. “So one of these machines can process that kind of crazy workload without even breaking a sweat in less than a day.”
Woah.
Some jackass:
“Youngish people need structure,” he said, adding that they have small apartments and might not have a good place to work, anyway. He still offers flex time and lets workers leave at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays.
“I think people have to be trusted,” Laermer said. “But the working-from-home thing has to be on a per-person basis, and it can’t be very often. It just doesn’t work.”
So instead of having employees he can trust, he has them come to the office so he can watch them?
Om Malik:
And I can’t believe that in 2017 and the notifications have stayed dumb, and are still be used as away to goose daily active user numbers. And these are from companies that paint a future controlled and shaped by artificial intelligence.
I hate most non-messaging notifications with a passion.
Dave, for AgileBits:
And you need not worry about 1Password 7 for Mac, either, as it will continue to support standalone vaults just like version 6 does today.
Whew? This post would have been so much better if it weren’t for all the hyperbole to start the post. I’ve read this post several times now and all I can say is this: they are hell bent on pushing people to 1Password.com — just look at the amount of “yet” phrasing used throughout.
I’m going to start looking elsewhere. Not interested.
Om Malik:
It is time to let go of dogmas that have corrupted how our system itself works.
MIT Technology Review:
Teleportation has become a standard operation in quantum optics labs around the world. The technique relies on the strange phenomenon of entanglement. This occurs when two quantum objects, such as photons, form at the same instant and point in space and so share the same existence. In technical terms, they are described by the same wave function.
So you’re telling me Transporters are actually suicide machines‽
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.
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.
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.
Patrick Lucas Austin:
Participants with phones in another room greatly outperformed those with phones in pockets or on desks in all tasks.
Wow.
Tracy Chou :
It worries me that so many of the builders of technology today are people like me; people haven’t spent anywhere near enough time thinking about these larger questions of what it is that we are building, and what the implications are for the world.
And maybe just visit an area which isn’t the “Bay Area” every once and a while. I dunno.
Cory Bohon on the 10.5” iPad Pro:
Nearly every task I do with the iPad and the attached Smart Keyboard feels magical and natural — this is clearly the future of personal computing.
The Surface line has taken off like gangbusters in the past because it was the middle choice — it’s not really a tablet, but it’s not really a laptop. It’s for that very reason the device sucks. As this article points out, Windows is the problem with Surface devices.
But, Windows is also the only reason Surface devices have been adopted as fast as they have been. It’s why iPads run iOS, and not macOS.