I have an ancient Kindle Paperwhite. Looking through the order history it seems like it was a Kindle Paperwhite 3 released in 2015, bought in 2018.

Slow as fuck at this point. Otherwise I’m fine with it.

The plan for about two years have been to replace it with an iPad mini when money allows it.

Weird how long these things lasts.

This have annoyed me about loads of native apps for years. There are no progress indicators or spinners in most apps. It used to be better when iOS had a global spinner in the top back in the day.

Things may have been instant when the feature was made, but it might take longer for some users; either because of older hardware, slower connections or way more data; or even if they’re located far from where your cloud infrastructure is located.

We’ve done this in web apps since like forever. Show that something is happened. It could be a spinner or even just disabling the button when it is clicked.

I love this app. It is just a super simple app to dump an audio file on to get a transcript from it.

Been using it for at least a year at this point. Really great when you want to go back and reference something in a podcast instead of having to skip-search for it etc.

It isn’t a fast process, even on my M3 MacBook Pro, to transcribe a long podcast episode. But still prefer it to re-listening etc.

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.