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Bruce Schneier: But if everyone uses it all of the time, encryption ceases to be a signal. No one can distinguish simple chatting from deeply private conversation. The government can’t tell the dissidents from the rest of the population. Every time you use encryption, you’re protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive.
Bruce Schneier:
But if everyone uses it all of the time, encryption ceases to be a signal. No one can distinguish simple chatting from deeply private conversation. The government can’t tell the dissidents from the rest of the population. Every time you use encryption, you’re protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive.
Mike Schmitz: Another great feature in Ulysses is versioning, which allows you to go back to a previous version of something you’ve written in Ulysses. This allows you to edit ruthlessly, as you can always go back and get that sentence you deleted a few days ago if you decide it really should be there.
Mike Schmitz:
Another great feature in Ulysses is versioning, which allows you to go back to a previous version of something you’ve written in Ulysses. This allows you to edit ruthlessly, as you can always go back and get that sentence you deleted a few days ago if you decide it really should be there.
Wow people are doing some really great stuff.
Wow people are doing some really great stuff.
Revising my OmniFocus contexts to make them less stupid, I mean to make them useful, of course.
I hadn’t touched my contexts inside of OmniFocus in, well, years. There was a ton of cruft in there stemming from various different techniques and ideas that I have tried over the years. Device based context, person based context, time based contexts, and location based contexts. For the better part of a year, all of my new tasks in OmniFocus simply went under the Mac context and — well — that’s not really using the tool very well.
But I struggled, because dicking around with my contexts is not productive, is tedious, and frankly it is quite annoying. More than any of that: I didn’t have a single idea of what to change it to.
So, anyone make a curved standing desk?
So, anyone make a curved standing desk?
Matthew Shettler responding to my Spoken post about paying attention to analytics: But I’ve decided on one thing to measure that will matter to me; something I can control: Did I post something today? Good response.
Matthew Shettler responding to my Spoken post about paying attention to analytics:
But I’ve decided on one thing to measure that will matter to me; something I can control: Did I post something today?
Good response.
Essentially, Google Chrome is listening into what your computer microphone hears. More information is here. (Glad I don’t have Chrome installed on this new MacBook.)
Essentially, Google Chrome is listening into what your computer microphone hears. More information is here. (Glad I don’t have Chrome installed on this new MacBook.)
A review of the 2015 MacBook.
Why did I choose this format for my review? Starting almost a month before the new machine and including such minutiae that you cannot believe it? I have no clue.
Below is a timeline of my thoughts, and actions that I took in the lead up to receiving my MacBook. Since the product was severely supply constrained, I was able to take more time to prepare for this change and for writing a better review than I typically have the chance to write.
The entirety of this review is not a chronological explainer, but the forward to the review is. The reason being: showing you my thought process should help you gain additional perspective on where I am coming from with this new MacBook. I took great care to try and best represent an easily comparable baseline for myself. Things like only using my MacBook Pro as a laptop in the lead up, instead of like a desktop, helped to reduce any shock I might have from the new machine being very much a laptop.
Don’t take people’s word for it, you need to know why before can consider any review.
Most reviewers only tell you why they have the perspectives they have. Saying why, in detail, they do or do not like certain things — or why they believe something is truly important. These reviewers tend to base too much on assumptions — assuming that the reader knows far more about their background than they likely do in reality.
The reviewer just asks you to trust them. They know.
Federico Viticci: User privacy is at the center of content blocking for both webpages and extensions. It’ll be interesting to see how many apps that just focus on blocking ads in Safari will be approved on the App Store (and how much they’ll leverage freemium models if so). Really looking forward to this.
Federico Viticci:
User privacy is at the center of content blocking for both webpages and extensions. It’ll be interesting to see how many apps that just focus on blocking ads in Safari will be approved on the App Store (and how much they’ll leverage freemium models if so).
Really looking forward to this.
Shibel K. Mansour: The Logitech K480 is an excellent multi-device keyboard. Those who use different operating systems will appreciate what it has to offer. Strictly as an iPad companion, however, this keyboard isn’t exactly a match made in heaven. I bought one of these keyboards too, also in white. Mansour is generous for it —…
Shibel K. Mansour:
The Logitech K480 is an excellent multi-device keyboard. Those who use different operating systems will appreciate what it has to offer. Strictly as an iPad companion, however, this keyboard isn’t exactly a match made in heaven.
I bought one of these keyboards too, also in white. Mansour is generous for it — and not wrong in it’s multi-device switching being great. But as a keyboard it is terrible. It’s not even the looks or the key feel of the thing. it’s the thickness, it absurdly thick. I really cannot recommend it unless you regularly need to switch between bluetooth devices when typing (it takes 2-5 seconds to connect to another device, which I was actually impressed with).
Big fan of Manton’s approach, and I adopted it myself not to long ago.
Big fan of Manton’s approach, and I adopted it myself not to long ago.
A little audio snippet I posted to Spoken.
A little audio snippet I posted to Spoken.
You've likely seen that Dark Sky version 5 is out. It's quite a change and it's awesome. Custom weather alerts. Push notification forecasts for the day. So many cool things. Do everyone a favor and head into the report button and turn on auto pressure reporting — a clever thing they are doing to improve…
You've likely seen that Dark Sky version 5 is out. It's quite a change and it's awesome. Custom weather alerts. Push notification forecasts for the day.
So many cool things. Do everyone a favor and head into the report button and turn on auto pressure reporting — a clever thing they are doing to improve accuracy for everyone. Love this app.
The only post I hope to have to write about writing.
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A lot of people only see me from the perspective of this website, and so to the readers of this site, I am a writer. Naturally then, a lot of the email from this site whittles down to: how do you write so much? ((For the record I do not think I write very much.))
So much?
Justin Blanton on notification badges: I look at it 1000 times a day to get stuff done and manage my time. He makes solid points, I’m turning back on some badges.
Justin Blanton on notification badges:
I look at it 1000 times a day to get stuff done and manage my time.
He makes solid points, I’m turning back on some badges.
Some useful things.
I’ve found myself traveling a lot more this year, and as such I’ve been able to test out some things that I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to in a true travel environment. In most cases I demand two things when I travel: small and reliable.
With that said, here’s a random list of crap that I’ve really liked when traveling this year.
Including a bottom navbar which means there is no logical reason for Twitterrific to not be your main Twitter client.
Including a bottom navbar which means there is no logical reason for Twitterrific to not be your main Twitter client.
Some time ago the New York Times reached out to interview me about pocket knives. I had no clue what they were working on, but here it is. Neat.
Some time ago the New York Times reached out to interview me about pocket knives. I had no clue what they were working on, but here it is. Neat.
