Where Apple are really good at software is anywhere they can just grind on the UX and reliability until it makes sense and works great.

Less so (most of the time) when you need to make sure it works well in all kinds of data combinations or network situations.

For example how terrible the Shortcuts app handles many Shortcuts or ones with a lot of blocks. Especially on macOS.

Or how bad MobileMe was and iCloud have been in periods from Europe (and I presume in the rest of the would outside of North America).

This is kind of the same problem you have with AI.

You have have non-deterministic part in there. Like networks or LLM’s. Apple have never been that great at it, and they kind of requires more how Google and friends are doing constant updates all the time instead of Apples big monolithic updates.

The way most weight tracking apps etc handle averages is that they take the number of weigh ins last week take the sum of the weights and divide that by the number of weigh ins.

Makes sense.

But this isn’t really a good representation of my average weight that week.

If I step more times on my smart scale during one day than another, something I often do when I work from home, then what my weight those days were will affect the average much more than the days where I just weighed in after my morning workout and before dinner.

I like how Happy Scale does it, where they only keep the “best” weigh in for a day.

I’d also like for apps that do a general average to have a better understanding of the samples. Like if you have a bunch of weigh ins very close to each other first make an average of them. Then continue that process from minutes to hours. Before you do the same for the entire day. Use that for the week and month, year.

When I got my iPhone 16 Pro I enabled the 80% charging limit, and have for the most part been fine with it.

A big part of why it works for me is that it charges really fast compared to older models.

I don’t think I have gotten very close to using all my battery more than a handfull times in close to two months.

There are a few things I wish were different with the implementation of it though.

I wish it was more obvious by looking at the screen that I have fully charged to the limit. I also wish there was a way to tell the phone to charge to 100% once (instead of the until tomorrow thingy). Plus that I could turn either the “tomorrow” or “once” setting on through the control center.

I’m using Windows again at my current job.

As always: it is a mess. At least for the kind of stuff I care about. In addition: I suck at Windows.

But also, Windows 10 seemed to work much better. While 11 is to me more like “pretending to be Apple by just painting over shit”.

Also after a year and a half of Apple Silicon Macs: Intel CPU’s feels ancient.

Finally having an iPhone with USB-C is great. I love it way more than I thought I would.

Partly because in anticipation of this change all of my lightning cables have been in really sorry state for a while. But so great having one single cable that can charge most of my things (except my Apple Watch). I will probably bring the same number of cables the next time I travel, but all of them being USB-C will make things more flexible.

For the longest time I’ve had two USB-C bricks and two cables where I sit in the couch, really enjoy having that reduced to a single one.

New job, new iPhone.

This time I went with a iPhone 16 Pro, not a “big” phone for the first time (except for when I had the Xs that was kind of in the middle) since the iPhone 5s.

The first thing I noticed about it was that the smaller size is really enjoyable. However, I also really notice the difference in battery life.

So not sure if this is a one time deal or a one off.

For the first time ever I have an office, with a door.

Feels so weird, and arcane. It’s nice. But I’m not sure if I prefer an open office or not.

Things happened fast.

After spending more time without an assignment than in one at my old consulting job over the last year and a half. I was kind of looking into a more regular developer position in the start of the year. But suddenly in the middle of being in the final stages of three other processes I landed a 12 month contract through a different consulting company.

Because I wasn’t in any projects I was free to leave when ever I wanted.

Interviewed for the project at 10:30, had a job offer before 14:00. Signed and resigned before lunch the day after. And started the new project the Monday after that.

Everything is in shambles though, because both my iPhone and MacBook had to be re-installed because of this.

With the previous iteration the Apple Keyboard auto correct got a lot better, this time it seems to be a lot worse, at least part of the time. Or is it just me?

Might be because I use a multi language setup. Not sure.