I had to jump on a plane to go to Oslo a while back for dumb and boring reasons.

This bag is the best carry on bag situation I have ever had going on a train. I’m going to get to why. But first a little on how I do it when I on a very rare situation take a plane:

• I order tickets very early so I can get fully flexible tickets in boarding group a more or less the same price as the cheap tickets
• I only take carry on luggage
• Anything not permitted in carry on I just purchase when I get there
• And I limit their stuff I bring to what I actually absolutely need

So. When I go anywhere I always want two bags. One messenger bag with my iPad, some notebooks, headphones and some shit I bring when walking around. And the large bag containing my laptop, clothes and stuff like that.

What I love about this Tom Bihn BrainBag is that of the two large pockets, the back one where I also keep my laptop can fit my entire Tom Bihn Makers bag with all the things I usually have in it without any issue. So for this entire trip it have worked as my go out bag and as a packing cube.

I packed clothes for staying two nights. And no jacket since it’s warm and dry here. But it would not have been a issue to extend it to fit clothes for a week plus maybe some gym gear if needed. More if I unpacked the walk around bag or carried outside of the backpack.

This will without a doubt be my go to backing things for shorter trips in the future.

I’ve had the iPad Pro for about a year at this point. A little bit longer. I didn’t get all of the accessories at the same time, but more or less the same time. So close enough.

I like the iPad a lot, and the hardware is awesome. But the thing that limits how useful it is at the moment is software.

Sometimes because it is because it just can’t do some of the things that is so easy on the Mac, other times it is because the iOS apps are so unfit for power users it’s ridiculous; like for example OmniFocus.

The Magic Keyboard case is amazing, it brings the iPad Pro from a neat tool to a real almost laptop replacement.

The pencil on the other hand is awesome but it is not necessary, but I do love it. It is more like a fancy fountain pen. A $2 gel pen does the same job as a $200 fountain pen, but the latter is a hell of a lot more fun to write with.

At this point I just wish Apple would get its fucking act together and let the iPad shine.

Gyms should have better lighting for selfies

The previous post had a broken link to this post Login interfaces rant

I’m really sick of this shit.

For a long time now we have done all kinds of dumb shit to make login interfaces worse. And I have no idea why.

I do see the reason for having multiple steps in more involved registration / on boarding interfaces. Fine. I’ve built too many of them.

But these multi step signin forms got to fuck die. And fast.

Also: stop optimising for new users over old ones trying to sign in.

The good way to do a login form is to show an input for username and a input for password plus a button to log-in. Plus some forgotten password link. And if you use a password manager you typically click first at the extension and then some other button and you’re either sent to a OTP code interface or you’re logged in. If it is a OTP interface good password manager autofill it and you’re good to go.

But the way a lot of interfaces are these days are these ridiculous multi step nightmares.

Not sue where it started, but I think both Google and Amazon got on this anti pattern very early.

This is the kind of interface where you first fill in the username hit submit, then the password, submit, and then if required a OTP code.

It makes the whole thing takes 2-3 as much time and effort. And I see ZERO reason for it.

Rant over.

Fix your fucking login form.

And if you have one of these dumb e-mailing me a login link: fuck you.

Nothing screams boomer like setting your iPhones ring sound to be a old school phone ring

This one was a lot of fun https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7991608/