My ex-wife passed away recently. We’d been divorced for many years and haven’t kept in touch, but we share a daughter, so we never completely lost touch. While going through her mom’s things, my daughter found the sign that started our whole relationship. I was working construction in her neighborhood at the time. She would drive by a few times a day and we’d make eye contact. Eventually, I gathered all the courage I could muster, wrote “HOW ABOUT DINNER” on the back of a blueprint, and held it up as she drove by.

I’ve never found a better reminder utility for the command line than Dianne Skoll’s Remind. I used Remind for years. I was reminded (ha!) of Remind today when Dianne announced a new version (I still subscribe to the mailing list). It’s the first update in three years. My favorite way to use remind was with a curses front end called Wyrd. It’s a powerful combination, but I haven’t been able to find a way to download Wyrd recently so I’ve not been using either.

I’ve always been a fan of fast lenses. I enjoy a photo with a narrow depth of field in which the subject “pops” out of the background. I say “bokeh” a lot. But, I think maybe we’ve taken things too far. I’ve come to realize that while a narrow depth of field can make a good photo better, it can’t make a bad photo into a good photo. So many photos (including mine) are nothing more than a demonstration of what a fast lens looks like wide open.

Craig Mod: The iPads of today are a far cry from that oddly rounded, difficult to hold, heavy, low-ish resolution first version of the iPad released in 2010. These new iPad Pros are, from a hardware perspective (whispering with hedged hyperbole), quite possibly the most impressive, certainly most beautiful, consumer computers ever made. And so expectations should be high for what we can do with them. We should expect to do more, more easily.

The Leica Q-P matches the critically acclaimed technical specifications of the ongoing Leica Q and pushes the design further forward to new heights of stealthiness and refinement. With its fast Summilux 28mm f/1.7 lens, easy and intuitive handling, the Leica Q-P gives the photographer the creative freedom that makes the difference. And of course I just bought a used Leica Q a month ago. The good news is that the new Q-P only offers a few (admittedly nice) cosmetic updates.

Nilay Patel, The Verge …either you have to understand the limitations of iOS so well you can make use of these little hacks all over the place to get things done, or you just deal with it and accept that you have to go back to a real computer from time to time because it’s just easier. And in that case, you might as well just use a real computer.

Francisco Mejia Uribe: But it is not only our own self-preservation that is at stake here. As social animals, our agency impacts on those around us, and improper believing puts our fellow humans at risk.

I sometimes think having only one journal would be ideal, but that’s not likely to happen. I know me, and I’ll never stick with just one. Currently, my primary (non-paper) journals are kept in Day One and Org Mode. Day One is a pleasure to use. It looks great and makes journaling quick and easy on every platform I use. It automatically adds location and weather data to each entry, which is a nice bonus.

Leah Finnegan, The Outline: …more and more I am questioning the news cycle and my relationship to it. There is so much news, and almost none of it is important, but you would not know that from a visit to social media, the grotesque excuse for a piazza where we are supposed to connect with people who are yelling at us, or any of the 24-hour websites that provide us with an overwhelming deluge of inanity.

According to Merriam-Webster’s Time Traveler, these words were first used in print the year I was born (1964): uncomputerized dweeb point-and-shoot barf bag It could almost be construed as predictive.

Leica-camera.com: The Leica M10-D brings the unique experience of analog photography back into the digital world. While modern photography encounters an overwhelming number of features and functions, the M10-D is a bold statement of a conscious focus on the essentials of both the philosophy and function of photography. With no rear display, minimal yet effective controls, and an extremely quiet shutter, the Leica M10-D focuses on the desires of many photographers to concentrate solely on the act of making pictures.

Third Man Photo Studio: Third Man Photo Studio specializes in high-quality photographic film development and analog print processing. First a vinyl pressing plant, now a darkroom and film processing lab. Go Jack!