A Droplr lifetime subscription is available from StackSocial this week for $22. I let my subscription expire a while ago but this is a no brainer in my book. By way of @ttscoff

Ulysses for iOS just received a nice update with Dropbox syncing, background syncing, quick search, and several other features. There’s an arms race in the text editor market again and I couldn’t be happier. Unfortunately, the Dropbox syncing completely failed for me. I accept that I am a walking edge case with around 2000 plain text files but Ulysses deleted several hundred text files while attempting to sync. I’ve spent most of the morning restoring from Dropbox, which, incredibly is still as awkward and tedious as it was in 2012.

From the OmniFocus blog: But, with our latest updates today (OmniFocus 2.6 for Mac and OmniFocus 2.15 for iOS), your data will be completely encrypted before it leaves your device so that it’s encrypted on the server itself. This is a major improvement for me. I’ve always given the OmniSync server a side-eye for tracking tasks with sensitive information in them. This was especially true of tracking work tasks.

Speaking of ground breaking television, Stranger Things was a delight. One of the many reasons I loved it was the familiarity. There are many call backs to some of the best moves from the 70’s and 80’s and it just all felt so familiar but new at the same time. Ulysse Thevenson on Vimeo has a side by side comparison of shots from Stranger Things with shots from all the great movies.

We’ve been clearing a backlog of some episodes of Nerds on Draft but also our backlog of the excellent T.V. that’s continually rolling out on the internet. In the latest episode of our podcast, we gush about the non-traditional show Horace and Pete. It’s simply a work of art. We also drink G-Bot provided by one of our wonderful listeners. Cheers.

Scrivener for iOS is now available on the App Store for $20. This is a good year for iOS software.

It’s a long holiday this weekend in the U.S. Here are a couple of excellent articles about the “Moral Economy” to keep you busy during your travels and parties. What’s the moral economy? Well, read them. They aren’t just smart, they are well written and often humorous. The Moral Economy of Tech by Maciej (of Pinboard.in fame): As computer programmers, our formative intellectual experience is working with deterministic systems that have been designed by other human beings.

I think it’s fair to say I’m excited for the upcoming release of Scrivener for iOS. Between this and the new DEVONthink for iOS, 2016 is going to be a huge year for researchers and writers. Literature and Latte now has a series of preview posts on their blog that describe some of the Scrivener for iOS functionality. I’m giddy. It’s time to talk Syncing Outlines I’m hopeful that there will be more syncing options beyond Dropbox in the future.

David Batty at The Guardian has an interesting piece about using social media to bust rich deadbeats: Hall, a former lawyer turned corporate investigator, said most investigations were more complex, and involved using social media to map a target’s family and business networks. For example, they might use the metadata embedded in an Instagram post to identify their location, or use a Facebook “like” or tag to track down a proxy company.

Facebook is now using location to suggest potential “Friends” which just sounds like a terrible idea: Last week, I met a man who suspected Facebook had tracked his location to figure out who he was meeting with. He was a dad who had recently attended a gathering for suicidal teens. The next morning, he told me, he opened Facebook to find that one of the anonymous parents at the gathering popped up as a “person you may know.