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Anyone who’s worked at a whiteboard knows that it’s a great place to experiment with ideas. Being able to quickly get rid of mistakes is just as important as capturing a thought. You know your fingers will be dirty at the end of a good session.

You can snag Linea here. It’s a really well done app with great UI controls. I think the whiteboard analogy is apt. It won’t replace apps like Procreate for many, but it is probably the first drawing app any iPad Pro user should buy.

Swati Khandelwal:

This is the second time in around two months when researchers have discovered flaws in Netgear routers. Just last month, the US-CERT advised users to stop using Netgear’s R7000 and R6400 routers due to a serious bug that permitted command injection.

I love the new Netgear routers, but I wouldn’t use one at this point.

Laurel Raymond reporting on the reaction to Democrats delaying nominations:

“We did not inflict this kind of obstructionism on President Obama,” said Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), one of the other two senators in the room. Toomey labeled the Democrats’ boycott “a completely unprecedented level of obstruction. This is not what the American people expect of the United States Senate.”

Is that true?

Senate Republicans refused to hold a vote on Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, for nearly 11 months.”

Oh, that’s right. Glad to see Democrats realizing that the rules of the game have changed. Now, can they keep up?

Jim Brunner:

State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said he will file a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to invalidate key provisions of President Trump’s executive order temporarily barring all refugees and immigration by citizens of seven majority Muslim countries.

I’ve been particularly proud of how Washington State politicians are reacting to Trump. From the Governor, to the Seattle Mayor and now the AG.

Philip Bump:

My colleague Aaron Blake has a running tally of where Republican members of Congress stand on the most immediately controversial of those issues: the immigration travel ban. We’re going to take that a step further. Using the Sunlight Foundation’s tool to identify legislators by Zip codes, we’re detailing where the people who represent you have stood on the vote to limit Obamacare (part of a budget bill passed in mid-January) and Cabinet picks (if in the Senate). On top of that, we’ve rolled in Blake’s list of who is where on the immigration ban.

Fantastic.

Aaron Bycoffe:

The Trump score is a simple percentage showing how often a senator or representative supports Trump’s positions. To calculate it, we add the member’s “yes” votes on bills that Trump supported and his or her “no” votes on bills that Trump opposed and then divide that by the total number of bills the member has voted on for which we know Trump’s position.

One way to get politicians to act is to not reelect those who stand idly by — this Trump Score metric is a great way to hold their feet to the fire.

One thing people seem to have missed is that “make American great again” doesn’t mean the same thing to Trump as it does to literally anyone else in the world. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Michael Nutter:

We see all of these purposely hurtful, distracting and egomaniacal tactics for what they are — publicly available literature would indicate that you may apparently be displaying signs of malignant narcissism and narcissistic leadership .

Apparently?

This is terrifying. And no, it’s not talking about removing power from fuckface.

This isn’t the crazy Silicon Valley prepped post everyone has been sharing, no this is a far more realistic take on the matter. Michael McGrath for GQ on his Bug-Out-Bag:

My BOB organizes my anxiety; it gives shape and focus to my dread. It reminds me not to take things for granted, and underlines the difference between necessities and luxuries.

Humorous post all around.

Jamelle Bouie:

This isn’t just cause for schadenfreude; it is an important revelation: constant, high-profile criticism works. Protest works.

Yep, you should see my two year old freak the fuck out when I just keep telling her “no”.

Ken Case:

One of the ways in which we can do that is to improve the way we interact with the apps to have a more efficient user experience. For example, we can make better use of iPad Pro’s larger screen by replacing some of the popovers in our interface with slide-in panels on the left and right (as in the screenshot above), so you don’t have to keep opening and closing them every time you want to use them. (This will debut later this year in OmniGraffle 3 and OmniOutliner 3 for iOS.)

I am so looking forward to OmniOutliner 3, I think OmniOutliner is the best product The Omni Group makes. It is also, by far the best outlining app on iOS.

But it has quite a way it can go.

Marius Masalar on OmniFocus users:

The second group of people manage their tasks like monks manage their religion. Completing tasks is almost an unhappy occurence for them, because the more they get done, the less they have to tag, file, order, annotate, schedule, and otherwise micromanage.

As far as I can tell, this second group are who OmniFocus works best for.

Spot on.