I love things that age gracefully. This was a tweet from 9 October 2018:

Got these great vegetable tanned leather gloves from Ondura. I love the pocket knife from them which my parents gave me as a birthday present. Can’t wait how these gloves evolve. They feel absolutely lovely!

This is what these gloves and the knife look like now. I’ve used the knife almost daily and the gloves probably 150 days each year since then.

Needless to say, I can recommend these products. The gloves are called Rider Gloves (tan) and the knife is the Ondura Pocketknife (olive).

A few days ago, I recommended the Traveler’s Notebook to my friend Halefa, who was looking for a notebook to use as a D&D campaign journal. She has now bought one and wrote a very in-depth blog post on her setup and plans for the notebook, which is well worth a read:

→ Using a Traveler’s Notebook as TTRPG campaign journal, Halefa.com

I’ve worn a pair of Red Wing Iron Rangers almost every day since October and I absolutely love them. If you are looking for some really well made shoes that haven’t been produced under atrocious working conditions, these are well worth the money. For one thing, I’ve never worn any boots this long without the sole even approaching to look like it needs to be re-heeled. One warning though: The nails in there tend to absolutely freak out airport security. Nobody is used to shoes actually being properly made anymore these days.

I’ve spent ten bucks to attach my new mechanical keyboard to my iPad and it’s a great typing experience. It’s like a modern typewriter! Absolutely amazing! That’s what I call transformational technology.