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.

I typically do tasks on two resolutions. Either very high level as important to complete the blog posts for the next week today or very detailed as in every single step I need to do.

I also find it useful to not have all of my projects and tasks in the task manager. Just to avoid clutter and overwhelm.

At the moment I have the stuff I’m actually working on and my checklists in OmniFocus. Inbox and things that I’ll get to later lives in Taskpaper files. And I keep goals and “plans” in Noteplan.

What I mean by plans is that I make a daily plan every day. Where I start by writing out a list of markdown tasks for all the things I’m doing today that would go into a calendar. Then I write 3-5 high level tasks I want to focus on.

Then I hide things in OmniFocus based on that plan.

Then at the end of the day or the morning after, I either move undoes stuff over to the next day or not. Depending on if I will focus on it or not.

Find it a very useful way of making it easier to keep focus on the right things.

Can I have a way to install PWA’s on iOS without having to have the icon on a home screen please? Drives me nuts to have a hidden Home Screen with all of them.

When you set up a focus mode you select if you want to block everyone, nobody etc. I can never figure out the right way of doing it to make sure I don’t silence calls. And it isn’t really intuitive how it works.

I just wish they had that as a yes / no dropdown until you actually added any contact to forbid / allow.

I love that Photos for macOS has smart albums. It makes the whole thing a lot more usable.

However.

I also hate how they aren’t even viewable anywhere else.

With iOS 18 Apple finally fixed a long running issue I guess most bilingual people have had: multi language keyboards.

Currently I think it works better than having to switch between keyboards all the time, but each of keyboards work better alone than together.

Hopefully this means that things will get better in a a few iterations of this.

Like, they are great. But there is one thing I hate about them: when the charging doesn’t work.

I wish it could detect it. As in, when they are in the case, should be charging, but doesn’t. And I wish there was better information on how to deal with it.

I’ve wondered this for years at this point: why the fuck can’t I re-order those damn things?! Not that important, but would make things a lot easier for me.