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    On Quality Software

    Ā«A happy snobĀ» is very much how Iā€™d categorise my own taste in software. šŸ‘ŒšŸ»

    Lovely package in the mail today: I brought three of their garments back to Northern Playground, as they had gotten some holes. Today I got them back, after getting a free repair - including two caramels. šŸ‘ŒšŸ»

    Green package with a note that says what I say in the caption. Thereā€™s also two caramels.

    Ā«Thanks for rapairing. Together, letā€™s stop making piles of garbage. Come back when the garment is worn out, and weā€™ll recycle it.Ā»

    Black wool longs with two neat repairs in the croch.

    They also repaired two T-shirts!

    I donā€™t really use read-it-later apps. But if you do, check out Omnivore! I agree with this review.

    Open-source, great text-to-speech, iOS, Android, Mac and Web.

    IPhone and Mac screenshots of Omnivore

    Ooh, thatā€™s a neat little animation in an unexpected place: the Aliexpress app.

    The Worldā€™s Best Sneakers?

    Closeup of me wearing the sneakers in my garden. Theyā€™re pretty sleek black leather sneakers, and Iā€™m wearing gray socks and a black denim jeans with white selvedge ID.

    Adidas has made their Stan Smiths since the 70s, and you can see them everywhere all summer. They are good-looking shoes, but where the earlier versions were made in France and had high quality, you canā€™t quite say the same about the newer ones made in India. They canā€™t be fixed, uses synthetic materials and someone would prefer a bit more modern design.

    One white and one black pair of Stan Smiths.

    Common Projects

    In later years, Common Projects, with their golden lettering, has taken the sneaker world by storm. With a more modern, minimalistic design, Italian leather and good Margom rubber soles, they arenā€™t cheap.

    One white and one black pair of Common Projects. Theyā€™re very sleek and minimalistic.

    But when you pay well over Ā£300 for a pair of Italian designer shoes, you can expect excellent quality, right? Well, itā€™s superior to the Stan Smiths, but for the price you could do so much better. The YouTube channel Rose Anvil goes into detail in this video, but the short version is that, while the shoes have some premium features, both the material and construction is pretty mediocre. In this article, Iā€™d like to point at a brand that gives you a more premium sneaker, at a (slightly) lower price.

    But in the end I will also share why I still understand why someone would opt for the Common Projects!

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    Great Baseball Cap From Poten

    Lenke til norsk versjon

    This is my favourite cap (and headgear in general) of all time. And this is also a good example of something I love in general: Simple products, made extremely well.

    These caps are made at the same factroy that does caps for the Japanese baseball league. Several brands have tried to get the factory to produce caps from them, but without success. According to Self Edge, Hiro (the man behind Poten, who also has a huge baseball card collection) had to visit the factory several times, over three years, to show them that he cares enough about baseball to have them produce caps for him. Lucky for those of us who don’t play in the NPB! But what’s so good about these caps then?

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