Editing The Pen Addict 89/transcript (section)

== Layout Engine 2 ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' One, they introduced Layout Engine 2, what, about two weeks ago now? Actually... Something like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think it rolled out slowly, but it kind of... So maybe not everyone has it. Yeah, they have it now. Everybody has it now as of last week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay, so I've had it for a couple weeks, and it's really nice. They've done a good job. I was a little bit confused at first on how to use it, because it was funny. They rolled it out like I got mine before they even launched the blog post on their site.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, see, I didn't have it until the blog post went live.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, I had it like a week before that. So I was a little bit confused. I couldn't figure out exactly how to do stuff. In the end, I think it works better for me than how it was set up before. You can manipulate things a little bit better. So that's worked out well. And secondly, the iOS app, oh, man, it totally works. The previous app in Squarespace knew this, and they would have no problem admitting that it was literally garbage. It was unusable. It just flat out did not work. This new app, I'm actually able to edit and mark down links, which I wasn't before, and save them on the fly on my phone. Like if someone says, hey, I've got a typo, or hey, my links, I had some bad formatting, some self-inflicted bad formatting and some links like a week ago. And I was able to fix them on my phone in about a minute. And before on the app, I would never have been able to get that working without a huge amount of frustration. And I was actually nervous going in. I was like, all right, I'm going to test this thing out and see if it works. And it was kind of like an aha moment. It just worked, and it was awesome. So hallelujah to those iOS apps actually being able to work now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, when they upgraded to their version 6, the apps had some problems. Yep. But they pushed some updates out, which fixed a bunch of stuff, but they decided they needed to go back to basics of it again, which they've done. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it just works now, and it's actually a useful tool instead of exercise in frustration.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Also, it's also more in that it's like a useful tool as opposed to just the only option you have when on the go. Yeah. So instead of the iPhone app being just like, oh, this is all I can do, it's now like actually this is just generally good to use.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, no, I could actually write a full blog post in there if I was comfortable doing so without hesitation, where before you had no shot of accomplishing something like that. And now it's really great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So one of my resolutions, my main pen resolution of the year is to help someone in my life find the perfect pen for them. And I have somebody in mind that I'm trying to get this through with. So over the weekend, I took a selection of pens, a selection of fountain pens for this person to try out. And I took notes. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to run through, Brad, the pens that I was able to get, that we were able to try out together. And then run through some sort of overall comments. Okay. Because I need help. Okay. To find this pen. So I need the pen addict listeners to be as awesome as they are and help me on this treasure hunt. Maybe you will just be able to give me the answer. We'll see. So the pens that we tried out were a Kaweco Sport Mini. Sorry, Medium, I meant to say. A Kaweco Sport Medium Nib. A Vanishing Point Medium Nib. The Parker Vacumatic. In whatever size nib that is. Nobody knows. An Edison Perlette. The TWSBI 540 ROC, which is a fine nib. The TWSBI 540 in a medium nib. The TWSBI Mini Stub Nib. The Platinum. Because I just figured why not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The Pilot Metropolitan. I'm going to put links to all these in the show notes, by the way. In case anybody's new to these. Pilot Metropolitan only comes in a medium nib. The TWSBI 1010. The TWSBI 1010. The TWSBI 1010. Which is why I was using it. A Pilot Pereira in medium nib. An AG Spalding pen in medium nib. The Lamy AL Sport in medium nib. That's the list of pens.