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.

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.