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December 2018

  1. Snack Pick of the Week: 12/31/18
  2. Sleeping Away From Devices, An Experiment
  3. Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World
  4. Best of 2018
  5. Snack Pick of the Week — 12/24/18
  6. Why a passcode is better than biometric access
  7. Leadership is about coaching
  8. Burnout and Shorter Work Weeks
  9. Zuckerberg Lie Files
  10. Microsoft was the real MVP
  11. We’ve Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong. Let’s Fix It
  12. Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home
  13. Here’s How Your Apps Reveal Personal Information To Facebook
  14. Snack Pick of the Week: 12/17/18
  15. Tom Bihn’s Shadow Guide
  16. Insisting on family friendly
  17. The Unwearable Lightness of Being: My Week Without a Smartwatch
  18. Every moment of every day, mobile phone apps collect detailed location data.
  19. I used all the best stuff for a week and it nearly broke me
  20. The best doesn’t exist. A psychologist explains why we can’t stop searching.
  21. Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source
  22. The Divide Between Silicon Valley and Washington Is a National-Security Threat
  23. Tech Companies Insist on Ruining Great Cities
  24. Starting from Scratch – Base Wardrobe, Steve on Everyday Wear
  25. Tom Bihn Road Buddy Duffels
  26. A Packable Bag For One Bag Travel
  27. Snack Pick of the Week — 12/10/18
  28. JIRA is an Antipattern
  29. I’ve tried logging my exercise and diet – but are health apps really a good idea?
  30. Fun with Shortcuts
  31. Google is Still Shady, Even If You Try to Dodge It
  32. Notes and LiquidText
  33. GORUCK MACV-1s First Impressions
  34. Getting in Shape
  35. Casio G-Shock GD350-1B
  36. TOLL, an action-thriller novel by Matt Gemmell
  37. Apple News is Secretly Really Great
  38. Snack Pick of the Week — 12/3/18
  39. Filtering Out Stress

November 2018

  1. Work-Life Balance
  2. Men’s Health on Standing versus Sitting
  3. NYT: Standing Desks are Overrated
  4. Orient Bambino Small Seconds
  5. Bond Travel Gear’s Travel Wallet
  6. The ‘Fuck All’ Nature of iPad Work
  7. Nik’s Minimalist Wallets from Tom Bihn
  8. Timex Expedition Scout — Inexpensive Field Watch
  9. Building Technology for Good
  10. Knit Velcro Patch Caps from All Day Ruckoff
  11. GORUCK Gear & Colorway Directory at All Day Ruckoff
  12. ProtonVPN
  13. 2018 Gift Guide: 10 Gifts Worth Giving
  14. GORUCK Black Friday Sale Week
  15. Using an iPad Software Keyboard Full Time
  16. Casio G-SHOCK DW5600E-1V — The Classic at a low price
  17. Casio MDV106-1AV — Inexpensive Diver
  18. The Big iPad
  19. iPad and Surface Competition
  20. We Are Overbuying Everything
  21. Pencil + Text Selection Prototype
  22. Initial iPad Impressions from Mr. Blanc
  23. GORUCK Veterans Day Sale
  24. Pados
  25. When a Business Insider Writer Doesn’t Realize They Don’t Use Computers the Same
  26. Believing without evidence is always morally wrong
  27. Making iPad into a Pro
  28. GORUCK GR1 Workshop and Tough Bag
  29. ‘Serious iPads’
  30. iPad Productivity Report — 11/5/2018
  31. Hamilton Khaki Field Auto
  32. Apple’s New Keyboard Folio
  33. Trayvax Ascent Wallet

October 2018

  1. The New iPad Pros – Everything I wanted and nothing I needed
  2. Pixelmator Photo
  3. New iPad Pros Are Coming, Hopefully…
  4. Urban European Journey with Tom Bihn’s Synapse 25
  5. GORUCK Bullet Ruck 15L
  6. Some Passing Thoughts on the 26l GR2
  7. iPhone XS Camera
  8. A Real Smart Watch
  9. CARROT Weather
  10. Instagram’s Harassment Problem
  11. The iCloud Lock In
  12. Casio G-SHOCK G-Steel GST-S130C
  13. iPad Productivity Report: 10/8/18
  14. iPhone XS: Why It’s A Whole New Camera
  15. ‘Pulling a Facebook’
  16. Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
  17. A Few Practical Tips for Packing Lighter
  18. Watches for Sale

September 2018

  1. Facebook is Abusing its Relationship With Users and Other Items of note
  2. GORUCK KR1 (versus the Echo too)
  3. Safari Content Blocker Evaluations – 9/26/18 Edition
  4. Voice Control and Device Addiction
  5. Small Backpacks, How to Pick
  6. New Mobile Photography Course
  7. Should We Stop Listening to Podcasts?
  8. A Tale of Three Tablets
  9. The Gerber Dime
  10. Location Data Being Shared to Make Money
  11. An iPad Future
  12. Adventures in productivity, notes, habit, and stuff like that
  13. GORUCK Price Increase — Some Thoughts

August 2018

  1. GORUCK Bag Organization Guide
  2. Put your phone in Do Not Disturb mode forever
  3. Great Deals on GR1s
  4. Intention and Digital Tools
  5. SureFire E1B-MV Backup
  6. Digital Distraction
  7. Tool Roll from BOND Travel Gear
  8. AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not
  9. Thin Devices
  10. Triple Aught Design OP1
  11. Piorama A10 Adjustable Bag
  12. 15L Bullet Ruck is Back
  13. The Tablet World
  14. Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason
  15. GORUCK Kid Ruck Impressions
  16. Small Triple Aught Design Pouches for Bag Organization

July 2018

  1. Road Trip Packing: Gear Additions and Subtractions
  2. GORUCK KID RUCK
  3. Pre-Road Trip Planning and a Select Look at Stupid Things I Insisted on Packing
  4. The Pull
  5. GORUCK Field Pockets
  6. The Vortex Core
  7. My M5 For Sale
  8. Noteshelf 2 Adds Handwriting Recognition
  9. iPad Productivity Report — 7/16/18
  10. Meditation under the microscope
  11. Mastering the Art of Caring Less
  12. These Academics Spent The Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening To You
  13. Massdrop x Ferrum Forge Gent
  14. Complex Controls and Complex Decisions
  15. Camping With Kids – Gear Thoughts, Season 2
  16. iPad Office Apps, and MacBooks
  17. Huge GORUCK Sale

June 2018

  1. WESN Microblade Review
  2. Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
  3. Mindfulness Meditation and Napping
  4. My Current Everyday Carry
  5. New GORUCK Bullet Ruck Out
  6. For Sale: Filson Tablet Briefcase (SOLD)
  7. Summer Things That We Buy
  8. No one is opening those emails about privacy updates, and marketers are getting nervous
  9. Triple Aught Design Transport Wallet
  10. Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia
  11. iPads, Watches, And Travel
  12. Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
  13. Backpacks for Kids
  14. Day After Thoughts
  15. Mobile Safari is holding the iPad back

May 2018

  1. Things Controlled by Keyboard
  2. Revisiting Standing Desks
  3. Ulysses 13
  4. One of My Favorite Lights Available: ReyLight Pineapple Brass AA Flashlight
  5. Here’s Amazon’s explanation for the Alexa eavesdropping scandal
  6. Travel Bags for People Who Don’t Pack Light
  7. Obscura 2
  8. Instapaper Temporarily Shuts Down
  9. Castro Podcasts
  10. Tech Optimism Battling Privacy and Ethics
  11. How Facebook Binds, and Shatters, Communities
  12. Handkerchief Everyday Carry Thoughts
  13. Details on a New PGP Vulnerability
  14. First Impressions
  15. Medium keeps killing off blogs in the name of saving the internet
  16. A Few Travel Essentials
  17. Subscription hell
  18. A Potpourri of Thoughts Largely Around iPad
  19. Facebook accused of introducing extremists to one another through ‘suggested friends’ feature
  20. The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
  21. The Royal Kludge Keyboard — A $40 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard
  22. A Good Summer Short Sleeve Henley

April 2018

  1. At first life without a smartphone was terrifying. Then it was beautiful
  2. I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t
  3. Twitter Sold Data Access to Cambridge Analytica–Linked Researcher
  4. Instagram, Watches, VPNs, Battery Backups for Travel
  5. Overcast Privacy Update
  6. Amazon Alexa Has Got Some Serious Skills—Spying On Users!
  7. 1Blocker X for iOS Review at MacStories
  8. The ‘Guru’ Trap
  9. dumber phone
  10. Westport Beach Weekend Testing Sunlit
  11. Say Hello to 1Blocker X
  12. Entertaining Yourself on Flights, and Social Media
  13. Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
  14. Apple Should Make an Instagram Clone
  15. Way More Than 87 million People
  16. Writing on my iPad at home
  17. 1Blocker X on Pre-Order
  18. Toiletries Kit Setup
  19. Arrogance Peaks in Silicon Valley
  20. A Big Phone
  21. Engadget’s Article ‘How to actually get work done on an iPad’ misses the mark
  22. The New Cheap iPad Is All the iPad You Need
  23. Casio G-SHOCK GPW-2000 ‘Gravitymaster’
  24. Instagram ranked worst social network for young people’s mental health
  25. A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter
  26. Smartphone AI is still useless: here’s how it can improve
  27. App Odds and Ends
  28. Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data
  29. Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised
  30. Machine Era Field Pen
  31. 1.1.1.1 — the Internet’s Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver
  32. Allow me to introduce Charles
  33. GORUCK GR1 Workshop

March 2018

  1. What smartphone photography is doing to our memories
  2. The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour
  3. Lum-Tec B38 GMT
  4. Fooling Facial Recognition with Infrared Light
  5. Watch Water Resistance
  6. Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing
  7. Facebook and Russia Have a Deep Connection
  8. Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro 2 review: a typing hipster’s dream
  9. Why I Love Compact Mechanical Keyboards and You Will Too
  10. iPad Productivity Report — 3/26/18
  11. It’s About Care
  12. Facebook’s Surveillance Machine
  13. Mark One from Studio Neat
  14. First Look: Aer’s Tech Pack
  15. Airlines and Airports
  16. EVERGOODS CPL24 Initial Thoughts at Red Teams
  17. Better News Using an iPad
  18. Farhad Manjoo Didn’t Unplug
  19. You Can Set Up Slack To Be Less Distracting–Here’s How
  20. For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned.
  21. Things 3 From an OmniFocus and TaskPaper User
  22. Flowfold Conductor Limited – 40L Duffle Bag
  23. A Modern Watch

February 2018

  1. Triple Aught Design Context Organizer
  2. iPad Productivity Report — 2/26/18
  3. Good vs. Better at Bad
  4. The Case Against Google
  5. Alto’s Odyssey
  6. The #1 reason Facebook won’t ever change
  7. Impressions: OmniOutliner 3 for iOS
  8. Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids
  9. Rising Early
  10. Facebook is pushing its data-tracking Onavo VPN within its main mobile app
  11. Tim O’Reilly Eyes The Future Of The Tech Industry By Peering Into The Past
  12. All the Things Productivity Course and Things 3 Tutorials
  13. Aerogel Insulation at Everyday Wear
  14. Thoughts on New iPads
  15. Living in a Smart Home
  16. Smart Home is a Home that’s always spying on you
  17. The House That Spied on Me
  18. What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death
  19. Namisu X-01 Brass Pen
  20. The Indie Blogging Problem: Money
  21. Mark Zuckerberg: People are spending 50 million fewer hours on Facebook a day
  22. Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net
  23. Bluffworks Gramercy Pants – Everyday Wear
  24. I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great
  25. Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be

January 2018

  1. The Latest Data Privacy Debacle
  2. iPad Diaries: ‘Type to Siri’ as a Smart Command Line
  3. Deleting Every Social-Media App From My Phone Is the Best Thing I’ve Done in 2018
  4. How the Mom Internet became a spotless, sponsored void
  5. Using iPad for Long-Form Writing
  6. First Impressions: Triple Aught Design’s Context Organizer
  7. My EDC Setups
  8. Keep Your Head Up: How Smartphone Addiction Kills Manners and Moods
  9. Uber, Lyft & the roads of hell
  10. “This Is Serious”: Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral
  11. Maybe It’s Time To Regulate Gadgets And Apps Like Cigarettes
  12. How AI Could Help the Public Sector
  13. RUCKPLATE Mod (video)
  14. GORUCK GR1 21L v 26L
  15. Rucker 2.0
  16. Smartphones, Sanity, Health, and Stuff
  17. It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech
  18. GORUCK 21L GR1
  19. Merino Wool Abrasion & GORUCK Bags – Everyday Wear
  20. The Reviewer’s Fallacy
  21. iPadding: Kids Edition
  22. Twim
  23. Filson Tablet Briefcase
  24. iPad Productivity Report — A New Stand
  25. Jack Dorsey Puts His Foot Down: Twitter Will Never Ban Trump
  26. How Antivirus Software Can Be Turned Into a Tool for Spying
  27. Social Media, and Me
  28. GORUCK GR1 26L v 34L GR2
  29. Rise of the Robots
  30. The Best Outdoor Knife: Wirecutter Reviews
  31. App Review: Pocket

2017 446

December 2017

  1. The GORUCK GR3 First Look Preview
  2. Reading Your Critics
  3. Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter
  4. Alexa, Where Art Thou?
  5. Steinhart Ocean One Vintage Military
  6. iOS X
  7. How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
  8. The Evolution of an Accidental Meme
  9. Merry Last Christmas, Jack Dorsey.
  10. Brief Note on Packing Cubes for GR1s
  11. 5 Out of More Than 100: Ulysses 12.2 Now Available
  12. Alteryx S3 leak leaves 120m American households exposed
  13. Apple addresses why people are saying their iPhones with older batteries are running ‘slower’
  14. Scientists wake up to coffee’s benefits
  15. Some First Impressions
  16. iPad Productivity Report — 12/18/17
  17. Zuckerberg Is Coming After Our Kids. This Worries Me
  18. Uber Engaged in ‘Illegal’ Spying on Rivals, Ex-Employee Says
  19. GORUCK Rucker versus GORUCK GR1
  20. The Binge Breaker
  21. This is what a news organization built on reader trust looks like
  22. 512 Pixels: What’s in my Tech Bag
  23. iPad Productivity Report — 12/11/17
  24. Top-selling handgun safe can be remotely opened in seconds—no PIN needed
  25. A Rucking Side Effect
  26. Thoughts on Camera Gear
  27. Some thoughts on the Blog Post Bribe Scandal
  28. Amazon Prime Video app rolling out to Apple TV App Store
  29. MarsEdit 4 Is Here
  30. iPad Life: My iPad Pro Usage post-MacBook Pro Purchase
  31. Stop Messing About With Crap
  32. iPhone X Home Screen (December 2017)
  33. Things Blog
  34. iPad Productivity Report — 12/4/17
  35. Car subscriptions: Ford, Volvo, Porsche, and Cadillac offer lease alternative
  36. You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real

November 2017

  1. Finding a New Watch
  2. Reylight Pineapple Flashlight
  3. Move over iPhone X, Apple just got a patent for a foldable phone
  4. iPad Productivity Report — 11/27/17
  5. The 6 Laws of Technology Everyone Should Know
  6. Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise
  7. New Ulysses Update: iPhone X, Revised Object Editors, and a New Theme
  8. GORUCK Black Friday Deals
  9. We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself
  10. Android Phones Always Track You
  11. Mainstream use cases for a microblog
  12. Outdoor Research Sequence L/S Zip Top – Everyday Wear
  13. iPad Productivity Report — 11/20/17
  14. The devious art of lying by telling the truth
  15. Twitter will remove verification badges from accounts that break rules
  16. DEVONthink vs iCloud Drive and iOS Files
  17. iPad Productivity Report — 11/13/17
  18. The New York Times Magazine Struggles to Explain a Parent Company
  19. How to do Everything
  20. Against Productivity
  21. Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human weakness
  22. How to resist technology addiction
  23. Thoughts on the iPhone X – Anxious Robot
  24. Fuck Twitter
  25. Bluffworks Gramercy Blazer
  26. Something is wrong on the internet
  27. Twitter Sidestepped Russian Account Warnings, Former Worker Says
  28. Everyday Wear – Better clothing for life.
  29. State of Bags: The Best Choices to Make
  30. Tech Goes to Washington
  31. Lizzie O’Leary Describes Sexual Harassment in Journalism
  32. Year of Gear: October 2016 – October 2017

October 2017

  1. Review of Apple’s iPhone X at Disneyland
  2. OneThirtySeven / PR
  3. Tote Bags for Grocery Shopping
  4. You Have To Find Your ‘There’
  5. The iPad Pro as main computer for programming
  6. iPad Productivity Report — 10/30/17
  7. Things I’ve learned from doing yoga
  8. This Could Be the End of Facebook
  9. WTF is sexual harassment
  10. Darwin and AI on Anxious Robot
  11. Scoble Denies Everything
  12. Rucking Gear
  13. Interview with Abe Burmeister
  14. Twitter Doesn’t Care
  15. The Radical Vision Behind One Company’s Unstoppable Pants
  16. iPad Productivity Report — 10/23/17
  17. Thinking More About Apple Watch
  18. Ulysses Update: Image Previews, Drag and Drop, iOS 11
  19. Rucking as a Workout
  20. App Camp 2020: Help us expand to 3 new cities!
  21. Intrigue in the online mattress review world
  22. First Look: Meridian Dress Shirt from Bluffworks
  23. One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end
  24. Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
  25. Mobile Internet Security
  26. iPad Productivity Report — 10/16/17
  27. What Facebook Did to American Democracy
  28. Ev Williams Wants To Save Media — Again
  29. Triple Aught Design’s Admin Panel
  30. iPad Productivity Report — 10/9/17
  31. Forget Russian Trolls. Facebook’s Own Staff Helped Win The Election.
  32. Triple Aught Design Azimuth Backpack
  33. iPad Productivity Report — 10/2/17
  34. Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook

September 2017

  1. Fragility of Free, a Redux
  2. Frankly Inadequate
  3. Change is hard, even in Silicon Valley
  4. Flowfold Optimist Limited 10L Mini Backpack
  5. Wool T-Shirt Review
  6. iOS Default File Associations
  7. Apple is looking for terrible web sites
  8. Benchmade Griptilian
  9. Science confirmed: text replacements do not sync
  10. iPad Productivity Report — 9/25/17
  11. Mystery Ranch Urban Assault Review
  12. Facebook, Elections & the Spin
  13. iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review: India
  14. Triple Aught Design SERE Pouch
  15. Arcade Belt
  16. Review: The iPhone 8 is a look into the augmented future of photography
  17. Keyboard Maestro 8.0: Work Faster with Macros for Mac OS X
  18. What Is Trump Worth to Twitter? One Analyst Estimates $2 Billion
  19. iPad Productivity Report — 9/18/17
  20. Advertisers are Super Mad
  21. Say Hello to Darkroom 3
  22. AmpliFi
  23. Wirecutter, but for Everything
  24. Steve Jobs’ legacy & The iPhone X
  25. iPhone X leaked benchmarks match MacBook speeds and destroy Android
  26. A Unique Marketing Problem for Apple
  27. Knife Steel Roundup v2! Best, Worst, Overpriced, Versatile etc
  28. Spyderco Paramilitary 2
  29. iPad Productivity Report — 9/11/17
  30. Facebook Wins, Democracy Loses
  31. U.S. House unanimously approves sweeping self-driving car measure
  32. Hard Work or Easy Clicks
  33. Soulver Updated with Split View Support and File Management Features
  34. Stop Faking Service Dogs
  35. The Bag Advice: Dad / Diaper Bag
  36. Triple Aught Design SERE Pouch (video)
  37. iPad Productivity Report — 9/4/17
  38. Bradford Guardian Knives

August 2017

  1. Interview with Ev Williams about Medium
  2. The Acquired Taste of Fucking Up
  3. Learn Ulysses
  4. New Membership Options
  5. Bunch of Stuff (video)
  6. Natural Deodorants
  7. iPad Productivity Report — 8/28/17
  8. Why Men Don’t Believe the Data on Gender Bias in Science
  9. Things 3
  10. Wading Through AccuWeather’s Bullshit Response
  11. Woom Bikes
  12. Eno Billow Air Lounge
  13. iPad Productivity Report — 8/21/17
  14. Subscription Attrition
  15. An Interview with Louis Rossetto, co-founder of Wired
  16. Unobstruct Clears a Path to a Better Web Reading Experience
  17. The new Ulysses subscription plan is a wonderful idea
  18. Triple Aught Design Recon RS Jacket
  19. Subscription Software
  20. Three Pocket Knives
  21. Subscriptions
  22. Ulysses Moves to the Subscription Model
  23. iPad Productivity Report — 8/14/17
  24. Site Note: new host/server
  25. The Member Sale
  26. Fixed Blades (video)
  27. Aer Fit Pack 2
  28. Morakniv Eldris
  29. Aer Duffel Pack 2
  30. Ulysses Switches to Subscription
  31. ESEE Izula
  32. A Good Bag versus a Bag I Use
  33. iPad Productivity Report – 8/7/17
  34. Mystery Ranch Urban Assault
  35. Social Media Making Me Miserable
  36. Aer’s New Backpacks
  37. Flowfold Wallets
  38. iPad Productivity Report — 8/1/17

July 2017

  1. Magpul Daka Wallet
  2. Minaal Daily Bag review by Fatih Arslan
  3. iPad Productivity Report — 7/22/17
  4. Slimfold MICRO Wallet
  5. Cedric and Ada’s Steel Test and Results on Everyday Commentary
  6. Removing Barriers — Outlier’s Approach to Fashion
  7. Skinth Mondo Shield
  8. Apple Leather Sleeve for iPad Pro
  9. Car Camping (video)
  10. Transmit 5
  11. Outdoor Research Ferrosi Pants
  12. IBM’S PLAN TO ENCRYPT UNTHINKABLE AMOUNTS OF SENSITIVE DATA
  13. The Rise and Fall of Working From Home
  14. Still living in a Notification hell
  15. iPad Productivity Report — 7/17/17
  16. AgileBits Responds About Local Vaults
  17. Outlier Slim Dungarees
  18. Tech needs Emotional Intelligence
  19. 10.5 iPad Pro (video)
  20. First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit
  21. Outlier Ultrafine Merino T-Shirt
  22. Major Changes to 1Password
  23. Virtues of Merino Wool
  24. Why I had to switch to iPhoneSE
  25. Current Bag Rotation
  26. iPad Productivity Report — 7/10/17
  27. GORUCK GR2 34L
  28. The iPad That Should Have Been
  29. Initial Thoughts on Some Research and Notes Apps
  30. Hello Weather
  31. iPad Productivity Report — 7/3/17
  32. The New iPad Pro Before It Goes To 11

June 2017

  1. Your Smartphone Is Making You Stupid
  2. Tech Workers Need a Humanities Education
  3. My New Favorite Computer
  4. Swiss Army Knife Cadet
  5. Microsoft’s New Surface Pro Tablet Is Stellar Hardware Weighed Down By Windows
  6. The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
  7. Laptop Replacement
  8. Giving the iPad a full-time job (warning, Medium link)
  9. Panobook from Studio Neat
  10. iPad Productivity Report — 6/26/17
  11. “The Last Mile for the iPad”
  12. 10.5” is the Ideal Size for the iPad Pro
  13. App Update Sizes
  14. The Very Best Things
  15. Uber’s CEO is out because of pressure, not some ethical epiphany from the board
  16. Apple goes after clones and spam on the App Store
  17. Apple just created, and killed, a generation of AR businesses
  18. Social Cooling
  19. Surveillance Capitalism and Google
  20. F-Secure FREEDOME VPN
  21. Some Important Changes at Cloak
  22. iPad Productivity Report — 6/19/17
  23. Anker PowerCore+ Mini
  24. One Way to Fix Uber: Think Twice Before Using It
  25. Message Startup Slack Said to Draw Interest From Amazon.com
  26. Which cloud storage option gives you the most bang for your buck?
  27. The iPad
  28. End-to-End Encryption in Day One
  29. The 2017 iPad Pros
  30. The 10.5” iPad Pro: Future-Proof
  31. An iPad Pro 10.5″ Not Review
  32. The iOS 11 App Store redesign story
  33. iPad Productivity Report — 6/12/17
  34. Manspreading
  35. Outstanding Performance of the iPad Pro 2017
  36. Analytics Coming to Podcasts
  37. The Second Coming Of iPad
  38. Information Density and the New App Store Design
  39. Tim Cook on Apple AI
  40. How to Make $80,000 Per Month on the Apple App Store
  41. Erin Shot a Wedding
  42. How statistics are twisted to obscure public understanding
  43. Tablet Mode on Windows
  44. Life without a Car
  45. An Art Form of Brevity
  46. iPad Productivity Report — 6/6/17
  47. Beacon
  48. A Quick WWDC Tip: Compeed
  49. Will it Fit? (Video)
  50. Outsourcing Your Online Presence
  51. Passwords at the Border

May 2017

  1. What If the iPad Smart Keyboard Had a Trackpad?
  2. County Comm Goods
  3. Trickle-down workaholism in startups
  4. Route to Air Travel Discomfort Starts on Wall Street
  5. iPad Productivity Report — 5/29/17
  6. Machine Era Brass Pen
  7. Bug Out Bag (video)
  8. Thinking About Shared iCloud Photo Libraries
  9. The Disappearing Computer
  10. 3 Reasons Why Second-Wave Tech Is Intensely Personal (Plus Incredibly Useful)
  11. Hey, The iPad Just Got PC-Style Drag And Drop–But Not From Apple
  12. Hacking Fingerprint Readers with Master Prints
  13. An Interview with Manton Reece
  14. The BMW 850CSi Was Magic
  15. The Arcido Faroe
  16. Instagram is the most harmful social network for your mental health—but YouTube has a positive effect, a new report says
  17. iPad Productivity Report — 5/22/17
  18. Facebook’s Ability to Target “Insecure” Teens Could Prompt Backlash
  19. Do You Need a Headlamp?
  20. iOS 11: iPad Wishes and Oh God Please No, Not That
  21. WHY I DELETED MY INSTAGRAM
  22. IBM Goes Non-Remote
  23. A Fresh New Look
  24. Google’s Perfect Future Will Always Be Just Around The Corner
  25. Home Network Tips
  26. My social media fast
  27. Future of Journalism relies on YOU, the reader
  28. Twitter Drops Do Not Track
  29. From Shared to Personal to…
  30. Things 3: Beauty and Delight in a Task Manager
  31. Back to the Apple Watch for a Week
  32. iPad Productivity Report — 5/15/17
  33. News has never been pristine, always entangled in time
  34. Everything you need to know about the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware
  35. Trump must be impeached. Here’s why.
  36. HP laptops covertly log user keystrokes, researchers warn
  37. Hackers Hit Dozens of Countries Exploiting Stolen N.S.A. Tool
  38. technochocolate: wireless
  39. When It Comes to Culture, You Can Be Right, or You Can Be Successful
  40. Some Knives for Sale
  41. PDF Expert 6 Adds Powerful Editing Tools and More
  42. Death Wish Coffee
  43. Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI
  44. First Look, Arcido Faroe (video)
  45. iPad Productivity Report — 5/8/17
  46. Apple’s China Problem
  47. Tim Cook’s CEO Status
  48. Apple’s (AAPL) dividend alone is enough to buy a third of the companies in the S&P 500
  49. Major apps abandoning Apple Watch, including Google Maps, Amazon & eBay
  50. A Pen Video
  51. Meet the new Surface Laptop
  52. Streamlining my Day to Day Wardrobe
  53. iPad Productivity Report — 5/1/17

April 2017

  1. Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz!
  2. N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
  3. iPad Diaries: DEVONthink’s New Advanced Automation
  4. Folsom & Skinth (video)
  5. The James Brand Folsom Knife Review
  6. The XTS Titanium Pocket Pen + Stylus
  7. Killing the iTunes Affiliate – BrettTerpstra.com
  8. In the Mobile-First Era, Don’t Forget the PC
  9. iPad Productivity Report — 4/24/17
  10. Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire
  11. xkcd: Survivorship Bias
  12. The Whale
  13. Bose Wireless Headphones Spy on Listeners, Lawsuit Alleges
  14. Google Plans Ad-Blocking Feature in Popular Chrome Browser
  15. Finding a Flashlight Part Three: Flashy Lights
  16. Random Notes from a recent trip to Japan
  17. The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
  18. iPad Productivity Report — 4/17/17
  19. seriously, the guy has a point
  20. The Mac Is Turning into Apple’s Achilles’ Heel
  21. 5 Stars, or GTFO
  22. Triple Aught Design Axiom X25
  23. Samsung says Bixby voice assistant won’t ship with Galaxy S8
  24. Maxpedition EDC Mini Pouch
  25. Earthquake early-warning system comes to Washington — but it’s not for the public yet
  26. Hacking Attack Woke Up Dallas With Emergency Sirens, Officials Say
  27. San Francisco cost of living pricing out tech companies, workers
  28. iPad Productivity Report — 4/10/17
  29. Walt Mossberg is retiring in June
  30. Back to Safari Reading List
  31. Ulysses 2.8
  32. Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal—no access required
  33. The Best Everyday Backpack Is the GORUCK GR1
  34. Samsung’s Android Replacement Is a Hacker’s Dream
  35. Wrights Notes
  36. The iPad Turnaround Is Coming
  37. Samsung Galaxy S8 facial recognition tricked with a photo
  38. Cars and second order consequences
  39. iPad Productivity Report — 4/3/17

March 2017

  1. Bose QC35s
  2. Right, About VPNs
  3. Stormcrow
  4. Fastmail
  5. iPad Productivity Report — 3/27/17
  6. Burned once, publishers are wary of Medium’s new subscription offering
  7. Uber Self-Driving Vehicle Involved in Arizona Crash
  8. Samsung’s New iPad Pro Is Just Fantastic
  9. How to hide annoying page elements
  10. Apple’s New Workflow
  11. Social Networks are a Feature
  12. The “new” iPad (5th Generation)
  13. Should Have Posted this Yesterday
  14. iPad Productivity Report — 3/20/17
  15. GORUCK 10L Bullet Ruck (version 2) Review
  16. Getting Great iPhone7+ Portrait Mode Shots
  17. New Stuff Day Two (video)
  18. Adventure Core Nano Wallet
  19. iPad Productivity Report — 3/13/17
  20. EDC Pouch (video)
  21. Some comments on the Wikileaks CIA/#vault7 leak
  22. GORUCK GR1: Revisiting the Ultimate Backpack
  23. Finding a Flashlight Part Two: Everyday Carry
  24. Secure computing for journalists
  25. iPad Productivity Report — 3/6/17
  26. How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide
  27. New Stuff Day (video)

February 2017

  1. The CLIF Bar Might Be The Best Energy Food Bar For Survival Kit
  2. Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings
  3. The Tablet Computer is Growing Up
  4. Finding a Flashlight Part One: My Life Depends on It
  5. Twitter, Live, and Luck
  6. 3 Ways to Roll Up Your Sleeves
  7. iPad Productivity Report — 2/27/17
  8. GORUCK 10L Bullet Ruck version 2 (video)
  9. Outlier S120 No Pocket Pivot
  10. For a bigger iPad to work, iOS needs some interface improvements
  11. Using the iPad for: Taking notes and planning
  12. Not owning a cellphone gives you time to ruminate and to rest
  13. Yohann iPad Stands (video)
  14. Brooks Review: Video
  15. Op-ed: Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto is a political trainwreck
  16. Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
  17. iPad Productivity Report — 02/20/17
  18. iPad Diaries: Advanced File Management and Research with DEVONthink
  19. The Filson Original Briefcase
  20. ‘Unbelievable Turmoil’
  21. Marshmallow Run Game by Design Code Build — Kickstarter
  22. Signal Messaging App Rolls Out Encrypted Video Calling
  23. The myth of Apple’s great design
  24. iPad Productivity Report — 2/13/17
  25. Building a Bug Out Bag
  26. iBooks Author — What Could Have Been
  27. Todoist
  28. Owning Your Content Matters
  29. Secret Service Unlocking Phones
  30. World’s Saddest 45 Rally Draws Just 8 Supporters
  31. 45 and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles
  32. iPad Productivity Report — 02/05/17
  33. Remote Work Emergency
  34. Federal workers turn to encryption to thwart Trump
  35. Ulysses Does it Too
  36. This Here iPad Sales Thing

January 2017

  1. Introducing Linea
  2. Check If Your Netgear Router is also Vulnerable to this Password Bypass Flaw
  3. Democrats boycott hearings of two cabinet nominees, demand the truth
  4. Washington State AG Filing Suit Against Immigration Ban
  5. Where your elected officials stand on Trump’s immigration order and Cabinet picks
  6. iPad Productivity Report — 1/30/17
  7. Introducing The Trump Score
  8. Trump’s Muslim Ban Isn’t Just Inhumane—It’ll Make America Dumber
  9. President Trump, we know what you’re up to
  10. Trial Balloon for a Coup?
  11. Textastic 6
  12. The Life-Changing Magic of Doomsday Prepping
  13. Protest Works. Trump’s Meltdown Proves It.
  14. Improving OmniOutliner on iOS
  15. It Was Not A Great Start to the Week for My iPad
  16. The Omni Group in 2017
  17. OmniFocus Users
  18. DU/ER 5 Pocket A/C Pants
  19. iPad Productivity Report — 01/23/17 🔒
  20. Full Time VPN
  21. My Morning News Routine
  22. iPad Productivity Report — 01/16/17 🔒
  23. MiniVan Programming Guide -for Mac
  24. Why would Apple release a 10.5″ iPad?
  25. Reprogramming the MiniVan on Mac
  26. The MiniVan Keyboard
  27. iPad Productivity Report – 1/9/17 🔒
  28. The difference between Google Assistant and Siri
  29. Microblogging on Kickstarter
  30. iPad Productivity Report – 1/2/17

2016 278

December 2016

  1. The Internet of Very Small Computers Masquerading as Things
  2. Evolving iPad Desktop Usage
  3. How Signal Is Evading Censorship
  4. iPad Productivity Report – 12/26/2016
  5. Yohann Stand
  6. Canopy Keyboard Cover and iPad Stand Review
  7. What I Learned about My iPhone After Switching to the Google Pixel
  8. iPad Productivity Report – 12/19/16
  9. The Curious Case of iPad Headphone Jacks
  10. Our Favorite Mechanical Keyboards
  11. Giving up on PGP
  12. Oliver’s Porter Hoodie
  13. A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad Pro
  14. Clothing Arts Cubed Travel Jacket
  15. As Trumplethinskin lets down hair for tech, shame on Silicon Valley for climbing the Tower in silence
  16. What’s in Bri’s Bag? Lightweight Longterm Women’s Backpacking List
  17. iPad Productivity Report – 12/12/16
  18. US-CERT: Stop using your remotely exploitable Netgear routers
  19. Thoughts on Ulysses and Scrivener
  20. Best Buy vs. The Apple Store
  21. The Pok3r
  22. My ‘he will keep telling other people about this stuff’ Gift List
  23. United Airlines will charge extra fee for use of overhead bins
  24. Basic Privacy
  25. Analyzing How People Type
  26. Twitterrific Gets Better
  27. iPad Productivity Report – 12/5/2016
  28. Misen

November 2016

  1. The Compass 1 versus Compass 2
  2. iPad-only: Month One
  3. Clarks Desert Boots
  4. iPad Productivity Report – 11/28/2016
  5. Android Encryption Woes
  6. Ive at Apple
  7. The Wrist
  8. iPad Productivity Report – 11/21/2016
  9. Outlier Strongworks
  10. Feeling Hamstrung
  11. The iPhone 7 Plus is my only computer
  12. When traveling, my iPad is essential and my Mac is the add-on
  13. iPad vs Surface
  14. iPad Productivity Report – 11/14/16
  15. What’s Wrong With Apple TV?
  16. Social Media and Elections
  17. Revising the Membership and Paywall
  18. Strongbody Apparel
  19. 2Do is Free
  20. A New Waxy.org

October 2016

  1. Convince Me iPad Pro is Better
  2. The Apple of Your Eye
  3. Microsoft Surface Studio
  4. Xiaomi Mi Mix
  5. Power of iMessage
  6. KODAK EKTRA Smartphone
  7. Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after going to war
  8. Stale Macs and A-Series Chips
  9. The Nock Lanier
  10. OUTLIER Strongworks
  11. Cords
  12. From Dropbox to iCloud Drive: a review and some thoughts
  13. Changes to 2Do Pricing
  14. This is How Trump Lost $916M and Avoided Tax
  15. Innovation in Photography
  16. Real work on the iPad
  17. That iPhone Portrait Mode Post Everyone is Sharing
  18. Nebo’s Handwriting Recognition Elevates Your Notes
  19. Providing the best possible App Store experience
  20. Apple Restricts iPhone 7 Reservations to Upgrade Program Members
  21. The Hero’s Journey

September 2016

  1. The Value of a Smaller iPad Pro
  2. RAW iPhone Photo Apps
  3. The Nock Lanier – Initial Thoughts
  4. Freudian Slip
  5. The Lanier Briefcase
  6. Thoughts on the iPhone Upgrade Program, and Buying iPhones in General
  7. Samsung S7 Edge explodes in teacher’s hands in middle of busy cafe
  8. Adblock Plus Is Now Going To Sell Ads
  9. iOS 10 is A Major Shift for iOS
  10. Apple of the Future
  11. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 Recall Is a Nightmare So Far
  12. Just Glass
  13. Dropping Dropbox
  14. What a Week
  15. Special B&B Throwback Episode: The iPhone 7 Event
  16. How My Friends Described Some Colors To Me When I Couldn’t See
  17. So This Thing About Files on iOS
  18. Fastmail, end of an era
  19. How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence
  20. Automated Killing Machines
  21. Why Do “Women in Tech” Communities thrive, while Women in Tech don’t?

August 2016

  1. Is Calendar Based Productivity a Fad?
  2. New Bullet Ruck
  3. Nvsbl
  4. Vesper to Ulysses
  5. Vesper No More
  6. Why do pull quotes exist on the web?
  7. What Exactly Fits in a GORUCK GR1
  8. Failing
  9. Ultimate Merino T-Shirt List
  10. Canvas #17: 2Do with Ben Brooks
  11. Autonomous SmartDesk
  12. To-Do Lists Don’t Work
  13. Unnecessary Adjustments
  14. Castro 2 is Now Available
  15. This Should Be A Lot Easier Than it is
  16. The writing class I’d like to teach
  17. In 2007, Trump was forced to face his own falsehoods
  18. Microsoft Secure Boot key debacle causes security panic
  19. Frequent Password Changes is Bad Advice
  20. Fuck Yeah, Profanity
  21. Outlier Quadzip Review
  22. The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’
  23. Ulysses 2.6
  24. Travel Light: Outlier Futureworks
  25. Your 2 Cents

July 2016

  1. The New Desktop Linux
  2. Credit card companies are blowing it with chip payments
  3. Setting up My iOS Only Environment
  4. Does the Snapchat Generation Even Know What Yahoo Is?
  5. State of Desktop iPadding
  6. Traveling the World with One Backpack
  7. Razer Mechanical Keyboard Case
  8. Traveling Light: Merino Ankle Socks
  9. Traveling Light: Warm Weather Gear
  10. Summer Remote Work Schedules
  11. It’s About the Commute
  12. Multitasking and Mental Acuity
  13. Default Outcome
  14. A Precious Hour
  15. The Arcido Bag Review
  16. Towards More Minimal Travel
  17. Toward a Smarter Software Future
  18. Dividing the Work Between Two iPads
  19. The iPad Pro 9.7″ Smart Keyboard Cover
  20. We tested over 60 different nail clippers to find the best
  21. Are We at the Start of a Tech World War?
  22. Morning Brain Dump

June 2016

  1. Comparing iPad Pros
  2. Daydreaming of an iPad-only future
  3. Finding a Good Apple Pencil Handwriting Note App
  4. 20 Best Carry on Backpacks 2016
  5. Items for Sale
  6. An Osprey Farpoint 40 Review at Scientifics
  7. The Primary OS
  8. Aer Travel Pack
  9. Photo Walk Recap by Erin Brooks
  10. GORUCK GR Echo
  11. The End of Apple Man
  12. Traveling Light: Packing It All Up
  13. Traveling Light: Everything Else
  14. The Great Content Blocker Showdown
  15. 1Blocker for Mac
  16. Aer Travel Pack on Kickstarter
  17. iOS 10 Security Wishlist
  18. Traveling Light: Shoes
  19. Heading to the Coffee Shop
  20. Crafting My Home Office

May 2016

  1. Top Gear Is Officially Dead From Gear Patrol
  2. A FujiFilm X-Pro2 Review
  3. Traveling Light: Pants
  4. Last Reminder: Membership Drive & Giveaway
  5. Traveling Light: Electronics
  6. Avoiding BlackBerry’s Fate
  7. A Path to Better Upgrade Pricing
  8. Readdle Updates PDF Expert With Apple Pencil Support and WiFi File Transfers
  9. Traveling Light: Dress Shirts
  10. The Verge’s Overview of the Google I/O 2016 Keynote
  11. Membership Drive & Giveaway
  12. A Couple Great Non-Travel Clothing Options
  13. How it Makes You Feel
  14. Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t
  15. Traveling Light: Undershirts
  16. New Yorker App and News Apps
  17. Moving From OmniFocus
  18. Traveling Light: Jackets
  19. My Tablet Has Stickers
  20. Traveling Light: Toiletries

April 2016

  1. Traveling Light: Socks
  2. Traveling Light: Packing Aids
  3. Looking at the Future
  4. Traveling Light: Bags
  5. iOS 10: Wishes and Concept Video
  6. Five Weeks
  7. Traveling Light: Underwear
  8. Taking Risks
  9. What Is the Apple Watch Good For?
  10. He Who Holds the Data
  11. Replacing TextExpander With Keyboard Maestro
  12. Poor Apple Watch
  13. Patience and Impatience in the Tech Industry
  14. Silicone Case for iPad Pro
  15. U.S. Chamber of Commerce Goes for the Extreme
  16. Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing
  17. 3D Can’t Touch This
  18. The iPad Pro Out Paces My Usage of Any Past Mac
  19. The TextExpander 6 Update
  20. 3 Packing Methods
  21. Macminicolo Merges With MacStadium
  22. That Awkward Phase
  23. Predicting the iPad Pro
  24. Speirs’ First Thoughts on Apple Classroom

March 2016

  1. How My Kid Leaving for College Forced Me to Take My iPad Seriously
  2. Observations on iCloud Photo Library
  3. Introducing Aether Fabric Packing Cubes
  4. Testing Apple’s 29W USB-C Power Adapter and iPad Pro Fast Charging
  5. Tom Bihn’s Sprout Backpack: A Review
  6. My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT
  7. Tomoe River Paper
  8. Two iPads Pro on Initial Charge
  9. The Astonishing File System
  10. It’s Not About the Tools
  11. Sticking With the Big iPad Pro
  12. Two iPads Pro
  13. What the iPad Pro Teaches Us About User Experience
  14. Can We Save the Open Web?
  15. Why Uber & GM (& CarCos) Will Have a Head-on Collision
  16. Going All GORUCK
  17. The GORUCK GR2
  18. Two Ulysses “Problems” People Have
  19. Ulysses Mobile
  20. How to Really Port Your Mac App to iPhone
  21. Power of Medium
  22. How The Navy SEALs Prepare For Extreme Cold Weather Survival, And How You Can Too
  23. Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors
  24. The Evolution of Linkblogging
  25. This Documentary Will Make You Proud to Be Part of the Instagram Community

February 2016

  1. The James Brand County Pocket Knife Review
  2. 43 Words You Should Cut From Your Writing Immediately
  3. Android Encryption
  4. Dumbshit got hacked mid-air while writing an Apple-FBI story
  5. The $500 Freewrite Word Processor Is Pretentious Hipster Nonsense
  6. The Upside of Changing the Way an Apple Pencil Works
  7. iPad Arm Fatigue
  8. Reign of the Algorithm
  9. We Are Now at Peak TED
  10. Instagram Ads: Too Much?
  11. Thoughts on Twitter
  12. Studying Business
  13. Finding Good Content
  14. Quartz News App
  15. A Samsung Printer
  16. On Medium’s Release Notes
  17. Control Centre Is Fine
  18. iPads for Writing
  19. Fifteen Hundred Words and Stop
  20. Shot on iPhone 6s World Gallery
  21. On Your Cute Release Notes

January 2016

  1. Michael Rockwell on Why iOS Works
  2. Building a Newsletter With Ulysses
  3. Most Secure Messaging Apps For Texting
  4. Why iOS is Compelling
  5. iPhone Only
  6. Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar
  7. Thoughts About Words
  8. Moving to 2Do
  9. Finding Our Way
  10. Slicks Travel System
  11. The Better iPad Pro Apps
  12. Using Workflow as a Static Site Generator
  13. The End of Privacy
  14. Encryption Is Good for America
  15. Apple’s Tim Cook Lashes Out at White House Officials for Being Wishy-Washy on Encryption
  16. IT Security and the Normalization of Deviance
  17. Together Alone
  18. The Post Mobile Era
  19. Twitter and the Cost of Links
  20. New X-Pro 2
  21. Centerstage
  22. Lodinatt Backpack and Shoulder Bag
  23. A Month With Two iPads
  24. I Don’t Miss My Apple Watch
  25. Tool Pen Mini by Mininch
  26. Why No One Blogs Anymore
  27. Why Ulysses Is My App for Notes and Writing
  28. GQ and Forbes Go After Ad Blocker Users
  29. Incase City Compact Backpack
  30. Some Follow Up on Newsletters
  31. Looking Back to NaNoWrimo

2015 444

December 2015

  1. LPT Request: Is There a Comfortable Position for Reading a Book in Bed?
  2. Outrage of the Week
  3. The All-in Party
  4. Ginter’s iPad Pro
  5. More Gun Taxes in Seattle
  6. Touch ID Is Too Good
  7. Opting Out
  8. Newsletters in 2015
  9. RNI Films- an App Review
  10. Powered by WordPress, Proudly or Not
  11. The Future of Computing Is in These Three Computers
  12. Fujifilm X100T- a Camera Review
  13. THE BROOKS REVIEW’S WEEK IN REVIEW FOR 12-11-2015
  14. The Microsoft Surface Pro 4
  15. Standard’s Carry-on Backpack
  16. Ulysses Beta
  17. iPad Pro vs. Surface Pro 4 Comparison
  18. The Tom Bihn Daylight Briefcase
  19. Study Finds Quitting Facebook Makes You Happier and Less Stressed
  20. Authors Ask Supreme Court to Overturn E-Book Ruling Against Apple
  21. Content Blocker Update (December 2015)
  22. That Syncing Feeling
  23. Leaving the Mac App Store
  24. The Many, Um, Misstatements of Donald Trump
  25. The Apple Pencil Enhances Note-Taking on the iPad Pro
  26. The Wrap Up Post

November 2015

  1. Can the MacBook Pro Replace Your iPad?
  2. Full Time iPad Pro
  3. iPad Pro Bags
  4. iOS Shortcomings
  5. The Ever Resilient WordPress
  6. Needing Another iPad
  7. On Appropriating Gender Identity
  8. Drowning in Information Overload
  9. The Smart Keyboard
  10. The iPad Pro as an iPad
  11. Mysteries
  12. Some Important Updates
  13. Which Do You Enjoy More?
  14. Apple Pencil
  15. My Cat
  16. Publishing Articles to WordPress With Workflow on iOS
  17. iPad Pro in the Clasroom
  18. Using iPad Pro as a Laptop Replacement
  19. iPad Pro Review: No Country for Old Macs
  20. Apple Pencil Review
  21. On Mac Content Blockers
  22. Looking at the Better iPad Pro Apps
  23. Handwritten Notes
  24. Where did all the analytics go?
  25. Jimmy Iovine: Women finding music comment draws apology
  26. Markdown and Automation Experiments with 1Writer
  27. Shooting at 35mm Only
  28. Get Your Sleep Now
  29. Blogs by Women
  30. Designing the Front Page of Your Site
  31. Exposure versus Money
  32. Is Using iOS As Your Primary OS, Masochism?
  33. They Never Even Tried For Value
  34. Some Cheap Bluetooth Headphones
  35. I No Longer Backup, In the Traditional Sense
  36. Developing for the iPad Pro
  37. Elyxir
  38. Writing a Video Game Using SceneKit in a Month
  39. A Smattering of iPad Pro Thoughts Twenty-Four Hours Later
  40. Slack is My World
  41. On the lack of a flagship iPad Pro app from Apple
  42. The Completionist
  43. Living with a 12” Screen
  44. Why Android One Flight Failed to Take Off?
  45. ‘Day One In Depth’
  46. Anxious Robot on Medium
  47. My Love-Hate Relationship with ‘Hey, Siri’
  48. The Constant Thinning of Electronic Collections
  49. Flying with Toddlers
  50. Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs
  51. IKEA Desk Lamp
  52. A Brief History of Backpack Back Panel Fabrics
  53. Tom Bihn Daylight Backpack
  54. How Apple TV Turned Me Into a Game Developer
  55. PageFair and The Economist
  56. The Netgear Nighthawk R7000
  57. Apple Watch Band Colors
  58. John Moltz Still Wears His Apple Watch
  59. Tom Bihn Yeoman Duffel
  60. Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
  61. Who are you reading this for?
  62. Where in the House Am I?
  63. Dialing Down
  64. Fine Tuning Keyboards
  65. My NaNoWriMo Challenge
  66. Sleeps to Christmas 2 Premium
  67. Tac-Tics for tvOS

October 2015

  1. The Magic Keyboard and Trackpad
  2. Cosmos – Infinite Space on the App Store
  3. Ben Brooks /now
  4. Review: GORUCK Bullet 10L
  5. Alto’s Adventure is out on Apple TV
  6. Mextures, Snapseed and Pixelmator
  7. Write Like You Talk
  8. More Amazon Stuff: Amazon Elements Baby Wipes
  9. Amazon Item: Matador Pocket Blanket
  10. Fixing Evernote
  11. Incase ICON Backpack
  12. Arriving at San Francisco
  13. Stop Force Closing Apps on Your Iphone
  14. Regret
  15. Responsibility
  16. Death to Analytics
  17. Samantha and The Great Big Lie
  18. Notes on Notes.app
  19. On Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage
  20. Rudoku from Cerebral Gardens
  21. The Elephant in the Room
  22. Buy My Old Stuff
  23. Apple Claims TSMC vs Samsung A9 Chip Variants Result in Only 2-3% Difference in ‘Real World’ Battery Life
  24. Stop Comparing App Prices to Cups of Starbucks
  25. On-the-Go Cord Management
  26. Samsung and TSMC iPhone 6s Chips Show Smaller Real-World Battery Impacts Compared to Benchmarks
  27. iPhone 6S Plus Review
  28. Microsoft Announcements
  29. Thirteen Days With an iPhone 6s Plus
  30. Does your iPhone have a good or bad A9 CPU?
  31. The Surface Book is a laptop, and tablet
  32. Apple’s Clever Tech Makes the iPhone 6s Nearly Waterproof
  33. Hiding the Menubar
  34. Line of Trade Shoulder Bag
  35. So far in 2015, we’ve had 274 days and 294 mass shootings
  36. Adamant for Safari
  37. The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites
  38. What It Means to Be Great

September 2015

  1. The iPhone 6s Plus Video is Amazing
  2. Reeder 3 for Mac
  3. What it means to be great
  4. Content Blockers Testing Update No. 334.71
  5. These Pictures of You
  6. Live Photos are Great
  7. Is the iPhone 6s Faster Than a Mac?
  8. Updated Content Blocker Results
  9. Propelled By Apple, Ad Blocking Cottage Industry Emerges
  10. Why the ‘Queen of the Mommy Bloggers’ had to quit
  11. On bias, dishonesty, and native advertising
  12. Making money along the way
  13. What Would Your Ideal Workspace Look Like?
  14. Native Advertising is a Bad Solution
  15. Why the iPad Pro will be my laptop of choice: Accessibility
  16. Ye Olde Content Blocking
  17. Obi – A Smart Laser Toy for Pets
  18. Ads are dead, long live ads!
  19. Saving 30% or More of Your Data Transfer With Content Blockers
  20. Disruption is better when it’s other people’s jobs
  21. Ad blocking
  22. A Few More Thoughts on My Top Three Content Blockers
  23. Ad Blocking, Ad Networks, & Your IP Address
  24. iOS Pro
  25. ‘Enabling of Ad Blocking in Apple’s iOS 9 Prompts Backlash’
  26. Which iOS Content Blocker is the Fastest?
  27. Good Advertising
  28. Adamant
  29. Why Peace 1.0 blocks The Deck ads
  30. Cloak’s super-simple VPN
  31. I’ve seen the future, and I want it now
  32. Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock
  33. Nine great things about iOS 9
  34. Random Thoughts and Tips for iOS 9
  35. Thoughts on Annual iPhone Upgrades
  36. Adamant
  37. Initial Thoughts on iPad Pro
  38. Apple Pencil vs. Wacom Cintiq
  39. Finally
  40. Hands-on with the iPad Pro’s Smart Keyboard
  41. On the iPad Pro and the Constraints of iOS
  42. Hypertext: iPhone 6 vs. iPhone 6 Plus
  43. Summer– Disney World
  44. Initial Thoughts: MacBook v. iPad Pro
  45. A Look at NetNewsWire 4
  46. Removing Mental Overhead on Your iPhone
  47. Fuji Fun Vs. Sony Specs
  48. The EZGO Slim 2.0 Wallet

August 2015

  1. Apple’s content blocking is chemo for the cancer of adtech
  2. AT&T Hotspots: Now with Advertising Injection
  3. The Fave Knife
  4. The Tom Bihn Cadet
  5. What mobile ad blocking looks like in the real world
  6. The Shinola Pocket Knife
  7. You Can’t Do Squat About Spotify’s Eerie New Privacy Policy
  8. Building Better Defaults
  9. Acorn 5
  10. The FluidStance Level
  11. Inside Amazon
  12. How Relay FM Proves That Podcasts Aren’t An Overnight Success
  13. The increasingly long lives of old Macs
  14. Creating a kill-switched VPN on Mac with PIA and Little Snitch
  15. Quickertek-USB Type C Products
  16. Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
  17. Thoughts on traveling 17,000 miles with the Aeronaut
  18. Quick Tip: Disconnect from an existing Wi-Fi network on your Mac
  19. Vertical Videos Are the Future…
  20. Crossing the iPad Rubicon
  21. The Ethics of Modern Web Ad-Blocking
  22. Please Don’t Buy a Digital SLR
  23. Google announces plans for new operating structure
  24. Android Needs to Address It’s Security Issues
  25. The adblocking revolution is months away
  26. Fujifilm X30 Review from Don Craig
  27. Chrome vs Safari vs Firefox web browser efficiency
  28. The Evolution of Twitter
  29. Back on Instagram
  30. MacBook as New Computer Class
  31. SENSATIONAL: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs

July 2015

  1. Goodbye, Android
  2. Marco Arment and Context
  3. The Security Flaw Google Built Into Android
  4. The GORUCK 10L Bullet Ruck
  5. Things will not change
  6. Short Term Memory with Due
  7. Luma Legacy
  8. Day One as Running Diary
  9. The Verge’s Mobile Web Sucks
  10. Keyboard Maestro 7.0
  11. A Simple Toiletry Trick — Updated
  12. Apple Retina Laptop Shootout
  13. Let It Be
  14. Never trust a computer you can’t lift
  15. Coda for iOS
  16. Importance of Sleep
  17. Ulysses 2.1 for Mac and iPad
  18. A Simple Toiletry Trick
  19. Push-Triggered Sync in OmniFocus
  20. Quote of the Day: Shawn Blanc
  21. How to Cut Children’s Screen Time
  22. Close your laptop. Handwriting could make you smarter.
  23. Daily Summary Email from OmniFocus
  24. Nox
  25. Getting my Daily To Do List Out of OmniFocus
  26. The problem with calories
  27. Personal Journaling
  28. Starting Fresh
  29. GPS in Airplane Mode
  30. A Pixel-To-Pixel Showdown
  31. Design of a Site Meant to Be Read: Part Two
  32. The Quiet
  33. On Writing – Audio Follow-up
  34. Negativity

June 2015

  1. Throw the Southpaws a Bone
  2. The Opportunity for the iPad
  3. Love
  4. Moving to Spotlight
  5. Technology and Art
  6. Why We Encrypt
  7. Our Favorite Pro Writing App for Mac
  8. Four Microblogging Community Tips
  9. A New Context
  10. Paperback
  11. The Perfect Workspace (According to Science)
  12. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Metrics
  13. Do you have Chrome installed?
  14. The Continuing Pursuit of a More Perfect Computer
  15. A Context For Computer Reviews
  16. WebKit Blog on Safari Content Blocking Extensions
  17. Logitech K480 Keyboard: A Review
  18. Microblogging with WordPress
  19. Spoken: Negativity
  20. Dark Sky 5
  21. On Writing
  22. Badge That App
  23. Travel Apps & Tools
  24. Twitterrific 5.12 Adds a Host of New Features & Improvements
  25. It’s a Jungle Out There? Carry a Pocketknife
  26. Privacy, Security, and User Experience
  27. Initial Thoughts on iOS 9’s iPad Multitasking
  28. The Apple Watch
  29. The World Says No to Surveillance
  30. The Note
  31. Micro Snitch
  32. Re:quest — Get Answers Fast
  33. Visualize a Photo Before You Snap
  34. Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy
  35. Capturing Light

May 2015

  1. The Myth of More (Not Just Another Fuji X100T Review)
  2. A Shit Storm of Speculation
  3. Apple Watch Sport Band
  4. Quote of the Day: Shawn Blanc
  5. Beyond Productivity “LIVE” with Mike Vardy
  6. The Fujilmfilm X100T
  7. Those Motherfucking Printers
  8. Thoughts on the New MacBook
  9. My Minimal Kit
  10. The best calendar app for Mac
  11. Sync Update: Search & New Column Options
  12. The MacBook Review
  13. Mistake One
  14. Hurricane Ridge
  15. Multiple Workspaces and The Myth of the Sit/Stand Desk
  16. The DDC Stuff Sheath
  17. Litely
  18. Horizon 3
  19. The Discreet Watch
  20. Photos Field Guide
  21. Quote of the Day: Jeff Abbott
  22. These Apple Watch settings make me less annoying
  23. BitTorrent Sync vs Dropbox
  24. The Creative’s Workspace
  25. Samson Go Mic
  26. GORUCK for Sale – SOLD
  27. Lockdown
  28. A Review of the Livescribe Smart Pen
  29. The Man Who Deleted All His Tweets
  30. UnderFit: Incredibly Comfortable Undershirts
  31. Safari Reading List
  32. ‘Distractions’

April 2015

  1. The New MacBook Review
  2. The first batch of USB-C adapters and cables, tested
  3. Put on a Watch
  4. Apple Watch and Hands Free Computing
  5. Confirmation Bias
  6. QuickSwitch
  7. Face management in Photos.app version 1.0
  8. Losing my religion for equality
  9. Project Fi
  10. I’m Shooting JPG Only Now
  11. SwiftKey Report on Emoji Usage
  12. Managing Across Time
  13. The Wirecutter Travel Guide
  14. Quote of the Day: Matt Gemmell
  15. Define Watch
  16. Yard Maintenance
  17. The GORUCK 15L Shoulder Bag
  18. The Bag Struggle
  19. Quote of the Day: Brittany Tarvin
  20. Apple’s new laptop is the future
  21. iPhone and iPad Cases for Kids
  22. Post to WordPress from Ulysses
  23. My Travel Bag, or Why I Use a Backpack as a Carryon
  24. Quote of the Day: Justin Blanton
  25. U.S. Directs Agents to Cover Up Program Used to Investigate Americans
  26. Why Capacity Measurement Is Meaningless
  27. Apple Releases OS X 10.10.3 with Photos App
  28. South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man’s Death After Video Surfaces
  29. Female Voices
  30. Padbury Clock
  31. Picking the Right Bag for a Trip: A Simple Set of Rules
  32. Can They See My Dick?
  33. Highball
  34. ‘Well, I switched to the iPhone 6 Plus’
  35. ‘An iPhone 6 owner lives with the iPhone 6 Plus’
  36. Short Trips and Which Bag
  37. “Tablet”
  38. A Few “Standing Desk” Best Practices
  39. Obvious Button States
  40. “Blogging” with Twitter and Instapaper

March 2015

  1. Desk PM
  2. Tim Cook’s Leadership
  3. New Version of Napkin
  4. Filters for iPhone
  5. Fantastical 2 for Mac
  6. Homemade Mini Donuts
  7. Fear of Apple
  8. Scenery for Mac
  9. MagSafe Has Never Been Great For Light Laptops
  10. The Future of Bad Watch Predictions
  11. The Billionaire’s Typewriter
  12. For Bloggers
  13. How People Sleep When They’re Not Surrounded by Electronics
  14. OmniOutliner for iPhone
  15. The Fuzzy, Insane Math That’s Creating So Many Billion-Dollar Tech Companies
  16. Quote of the Day: Jason Snell
  17. Pebble Time is not a serious Apple Watch competitor
  18. The Lack of MagSafe
  19. The Upside Of Slower
  20. Ulysses for iPad
  21. Ben Brooks’ Morning Routine on My Morning Routine
  22. New Google Calendar iPhone app
  23. Obligatory Apple Watch and MacBook Thoughts
  24. 14 Things That Are Obsolete in 21st Century Schools
  25. 10 Under Appreciated Leadership Qualities
  26. How The iPad Empowers Grandparents
  27. My iPad Week
  28. BitTorrent Sync 2.0
  29. Optimization Without Thinking
  30. Workflow Field Guide

February 2015

  1. The Status Page
  2. Fcc Votes for Net Neutrality, a Ban on Paid Fast Lanes
  3. The Dangers of Misinformation
  4. Why Standing Doesn’t Work
  5. Relevance Engine
  6. Accessibility Showdown: iPhone 6 vs. iPhone 6 Plus
  7. Welcome to 1984
  8. Disintegrating Baddies
  9. The Paper Method
  10. The Canon AE-1 Program
  11. Wishlists on The Newsprint
  12. The iPhone 6 Versus the iPhone 6 Plus
  13. Lenovo Installs Adware on Customer Laptops and Compromises All SSL
  14. Alto’s Adventure
  15. What We Want Next
  16. Darkroom for iPhone
  17. The Analog Aspect
  18. Newsletter Issue 1
  19. My Newsletter
  20. Darkroom
  21. I’m Brianna Wu, And I’m Risking My Life Standing Up To Gamergate
  22. Quick Tip: Give group messages a name in iOS
  23. The Pocket Pens
  24. Panasonic Lumix 20mm f/1.7 Pancake Lens
  25. Alto – Trailer
  26. To a Bigger iPad
  27. Quote of the Day: Tom Wheeler
  28. Why the iPad Became Viticci’s Main Computer
  29. Nikon FE – A Camera Review
  30. The Smart Tool With Stupid Features
  31. The GORUCK GR1 on Tools and Toys
  32. Get your loved ones off Facebook
  33. Baby Stuff We Use
  34. Outlook for iOS and Email Security

January 2015

  1. Why WordPress Should Be Your Only Choice
  2. Chili history: There are no beans in San Antonio’s specialty.
  3. An interview with Ben Brooks
  4. The Library for Work
  5. The Tom Bihn Parental Unit on Tools and Toys
  6. Great iPhone Photos
  7. Long-Term Review of Côte & Ciel’s Isar Rucksack
  8. Shifts
  9. The Ona Bowery
  10. The Otherside of the Fixed Lens Argument
  11. Alibi – A witness for every moment
  12. The Perfect Laptop
  13. Travel Laundry Stuff Sack (video)
  14. ‘Your Best Work’
  15. The Great Glass
  16. The Address Book Paradox
  17. It’s About the Camera
  18. The Fight Between Aesthetics and Ergonomics
  19. Walk in a Park
  20. The Trade
  21. Whittling Down The MacBook To An iPad
  22. Reminder: Photo a Day Project
  23. Unique Photos
  24. It’s Compulsion, Not Obsession
  25. Jitouch 2
  26. The IKEA Wall-mount Table/Desk
  27. Photo Stitching without Photoshop
  28. Photo a Day – 2015
  29. The Future Shock

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