I change my task systems fairly often. And I kind of think it is a good thing.

My experience is that what works well for me is based on the amount of things that are going on. And where I feel like my current complexities and pressure are.

When things are going well and I have a lot going on OmniFocus works really well for me.

But when I have to hit the breaks and simplify Things + NotePlan often works well.

Other times it works better to just use paper.

I’ve had ones with both of my current iPads since I got them. The M1 iPad Pro and the iPad mini.

I usually don’t use it that much for drawing or handwriting. But sometimes I do.

The main use for a pencil for me is because it is a really good pointing device that I find much more ergonomic than using your fingers.

There are always trends I fucking hate. In the past it has been things like or piss me off

• Infinite scrolling
• Paging without updating urls
• Anything in a web apps you navigate to without having a url to it
• Having entire fucking sub-apps inside modals
• Having modals for dumb reasons
• Not letting me control / command click links to open in new tabs properly; as in either they don’t work at all or that even when I control click and it opens in the new tab the main tab still goes to that location
• When links only work when you click to open in new tab
• Tracking all over

Because I prefer to have money and eat I have made most of the bullshit above, except the bugs, those I’ve fixed a billion times without telling anyone. But I always let everyone know all the problems with it and refuse to be a part of any “praise” for implementing it.

I’ll do it, but not silently, and everyone knows how I feel about it.

Often a good thing when it blows up in UX / product owners face.

My approach to all this fancy machine learning crap that I refuse to call “artificial intelligence” because there is no link between intelligence and statistics is to use it where it is useful. But I’ll still call the duck for a duck, and I’m not quiet about all the bullshit related to it.

The funny thing about using these tools is that they are really useful like 75% of the when you’re good at asking questions. Something a lot of good experienced software developers are good at. But bad ones or inexperienced ones suck at.

I finally bought myself an iPad mini after having it on my list for 2-3 years.

I got one without cellular, because availability. Would most like have gotten with cellular if any had been available anywhere close. Also got one of the new Pro Pencils.

Also ordered a Otterbox case for it.

It’s great for having all the things I don’t want to have on my phone for distraction related reasons on something very portable.

The case is awesome because it keeps the pencil more locked in than just magnets.

I think pencils with the iPad is awesome because sometimes I want to write on it, other times I like to use the pencil as a pointing device.

Not a must, but makes the whole thing so much better.

Let’s say you’re just going to reset an old Mac and re-install the OS, or setting up a new one. And you have at least 5 other logged in functioning Apple Devices close by.

Why can’t I use them to authenticate and transfer the wifi code by scanning some QR code or whatever?

I get that it has some security implications, and I’m fine with confirming it in a safe way. But I just want to not manually type my long as fuck Apple ID password multiple times. Or my wifi code.

Let’s say you’re look at some App Store listing on your Mac or or whatever.

Why can’t I click “Install this on my iPhone 16 Pro, my iPad mini and my other Mac”?

My sleep is always weird, never long enough, and usually kind of weird. I guess my ADHD plays a big role in it.

The interesting thing about it is that even when I don’t sleep a lot most of the time, let’s say around 6h. My restorative sleep is typically where it should be. As in minutes and not percentage.

And when I sleep more I usually either have similar amounts of restorative sleep or way less.

I often find myself in this spot where I think both sides of arguments have some valid points and some that I find ridiculous.

This is kind of my problem with everything we end up in this us versus them rhetoric.

Funny thing.

I’ve used Kindle since like 2010, and had a Kindle on and off since 2011.

And still to this day all the people that comment on me having a Kindle that isn’t a typical geek give me a look and ask what I’m reading, before the conversation switch to them using theirs for smut or something really filthy shit.