I've seen some weird hacky ways that people use to get text from Drafts to Editorial. They all seem to use the clipboard as an intermediary. I hate to use the clipboard in that way unless I have no other choice. Here is the right way to take a Draft and put it into Editorial:

editorial://new/[[title]].md?root=local&content=[[body]]

Here is the right way to take a Draft, put it into Editorial, and immediately run an Editorial Workflow.

editorial://new/[[title]].md?root=local&content=[[body]]&command={{Name of Workflow}}

I use this as part of my new Drafts -> Editorial -> Pelican workflow. It has replaced my Drafts -> Pythonista -> Pelican version. The old version worked, but it was hacky in its own right.

A gentleman pays for dinner.
A gentleman opens the car door.
A gentleman takes out the garbage.
A gentleman holds the door open.
A gentleman works.
A gentleman does not care if the world thinks he is old-fashioned¹.

A lady is perfectly capable of doing all these things. She has hands. She has a wallet. She has money. If she's with a gentleman, she shouldn't need to worry about it.

We are pregnant.

No. Your wife is pregnant. Maybe your girlfriend is pregnant. Maybe even your drunken mistake is pregnant. You, person without a uterus, are not pregnant. Stop it. It's not cute. It's annoying.

So begins 2015.

After seeing and not reading several detailed Baron Fig Apprentice reviews, I felt it necessary to write one of my own. Here it is:

It's a notebook. It's also oddly sized.

I hope that helps someone with this very important decision.

Here are my mobile deposit experiences with two banks:

Bank of America

• Funds Availability: Tomorrow. Probably.
• Check: Keep it for 14 days in case they need to verify information.

USAA

• Funds Availability: 100% available immediately
• Check: Shred it.

The message couldn't be more clear. USAA uses a combination of modern technology and trust. They, being a large bank, have the ability to know if a check is good or not. It's 2014, and the technology has existed for a while. In addition, they trust me as a customer. As soon as I complete the mobile deposit, the full amount of the check is available to me. I can spend it, withdraw it, or transfer it to another bank. My money is mine to do with as I please — what a crazy idea.

Bank of America, on the other hand, is a bit of a joke. Either they are not confident in their ability to determine whether a check will clear, or they do not trust me. I have been a Bank of America customer far longer than I've been a USAA customer. If anything, Bank of America has more reason to trust me.

This is just another one of those little paper cut things that will eventually lead me to cut ties with Bank of America. There just isn't much reason to continue putting up with silly things like this.

I listen to podcasts almost exclusively while I'm driving — particularly on the way to and from work. I use Overcast¹ and have a playlist set up to begin a new show as soon as one ends.

That's awesome, except when the podcast that ended is really good.

Let's say I'm listening to Connected, and Federico mentions an awesome new app. I can't download it now — I'm driving. No worries, Myke says that he's going to put it in the show notes. Super! I'll just check it out later in the day.

Except.

Connected ends on my drive to work. Analog(ue) begins. Everyone starts talking about their feelings, and I forget all about the shiny new app that I want to check out.

Best case scenario: I actually remember at some point in the future, and have to go hunting around in Overcast for the player episode's show notes. ¹

Worst case (read: most likely) scenario: I never remember to check out the show notes, and an app developer never gets his $.99. I also never get an awesome app.

The Solution

At around the five minutes remaining mark, Overcast should send a link to the show notes to my Instapaper account. That way, I never have to remember to look at the show notes — they are waiting in my Instapaper queue.

Why not subscribe to the show notes through RSS?

It's silly to read the show notes before I listen to the podcast. I often fall very far behind on podcasts, but not on RSS. I imagine that's pretty common.

Casey Liss on his biggest problem with Camel:

Am I missing any other obvious answers? Specifically, ones that don’t require me to rewrite Camel to use a different data store? I know I can go the virtual private server / self-hosted route, but I have zero interest in taking that on. What’s left?

I suspect that Casey knows the answer to his problem. It's a VPS. It solves all his problems in a very clear manner, and it takes less than an hour to set up. Seriously, less than an hour.

A Digital Ocean $5 VPS + Dropbox would make it simple to upload new posts from iOS. It's the basis of my system here. There isn't a better answer, and it isn't nearly as difficult as it seems.

All I want to do is run. I'm not good at running. I am not fast, and I don't run especially far. My knees positively hate running. They would be much happier if I sat down all the time.

I won't let them win, though. Running is like nothing else, really. Once I start running, all my thoughts and worries start to slip away. There is only pain. It gets easier after the first mile — ignored pain tends to fade, but it never lets me completely forget that it's there. It's building up in secret, just waiting for the right moment.

As soon as I run out of breath and have to walk, all that built up pain comes rushing back. My legs burn. My knees scream at me. For some reason, I love it.

I never want to stop running.

Or, of course it doesn't matter.

The latest phone from Apple's lab doesn't matter. It isn't important. There are literally people dying right now. How could a phone possibly matter?

Of course it doesn't matter. It's a phone. Nothing so trivial really matters. We shouldn't be talking about shiny new phones. We should be talking about civil rights infringements. Well, maybe we should be talking about sexism. What about all the awful diseases in the world? Then again, murder is even more important. And really, what is murder compared to war? Even war is trivial compared to genocide.

There is always, always something more important. No matter what you want to talk about, something else is more important. Well, unless you are talking about The Most Important Thing.¹ Nothing is more important than The Most Important Thing — it's right there in the name. If you are talking about anything else, you are wasting your time on the trivial and unimportant.

Except.

Do you want to live in a world where you can only express interest in one thing? One (most likely) horrible thing?

I don't.

So I talk about things that, in the big picture, don't matter. Of course they don't matter, and I like it that way.