So, I was looking at the weight of the various iPad models the other day.

I guess the short version is that I really enjoy having an iPad below or next to my Mac when I work, because it is nice to have some reference documentation there or to look in a todo manager without changing focus.

The weird thing is that it is heavy enough that I notice the difference. My iPad Pro 13 with Celluar I 685 grams, and if I got the same just the newest model it would be 582 grams, or 444 grams if I went down to the 11 inch without Celluar or 293 grams for the iPad Mini. Hopefully the next generation mini would be even lighter. All the other models are the same weight ish or heavier than my current iPad

I think that weight wise the 11 or Mini are the only ones that would have enough of a difference to matter, the mini is the most likely because I’m going to get one for other reasons. But the 11 would be the better option for this use case.

This have been a big annoyance of me for a really long time at this point. Most iPad cases, if they at all let you use them as a kick stand, only support doing so in one direction.

That is fine that each model only support on orientation, and it makes sense.

However.

Why the fuck is all of them design for doing so in landscape? Most of the time (but not always) when I don’t have my iPad attached to a keyboard I’d prefer the other way. Having a tall display close to my wider laptop or external display is a lot more useful than another wide one.

For example with a list of tasks, a web page, pdf, e-book or something like that visible.

When you have a small child, they love it, or at least mine does, when I buy the same thing for the both of us. But it is so stupid rare that I can find anything that is like that.

Ridiculous.

I haven’t really had it for a year, but kind of; I’m like 2-3 weeks off.

My reasons for getting it back then was mostly three things:

• Battery life
• Action button
• Watch faces with more stuff on them

Battery life has been awesome.

When I try to set up or change Focus modes on my iPhone and get to the Watch Faces UI I’m always met with this terrible UI.

Part of the problem is that they only render parts of the watch face and the name of the Face I have used. So I often see like 3 identical faces, because they don’t render any of the differences.

Can you either fix the rendering or let me fucking name them, please?

The current flow of picking the first one, disable, enable repeat until it is correct is beyond broken.

A thing I have missed from all twitter like social media networks, since I first started to have problems with the volume of posts I never was able to keep up with, is better tools to evaluate the accounts I follow.

The obvious would be how many post they post on average per day/week etc. The kind of poster they are would be another, do they poste rarely but a lot, constant etc. Also the kind of posts they typically post is another, a bunch of photos, links or short posts is less heavy than long ones.

Data on this would make it easy to make tools for it, or just easier to evaluate manually. But adding things like this to Mastodon would almost certainly cause a lot of drama.

Whenever I have to deal with anything “data science” or “data engineering” or what the fuck we call it this week, maybe it is all (sarcastic Homer Simpson voice) AI, the whole notebook stuff drives me nuts.

Like I think they are fun for some stuff, but it is so weird for a lot of use cases at work. Mostly because we have all of these great developer tools over here, and then most of them aren’t really usable within the notebooks.

Is this a problem because I’m more of a “software engineer” (I refuse to use the engineer title myself) than a “data engineer”, yes. But here is the reality of doing software in any company everything has to talk to each other in some way.

Development, operations, “data” all has to do work on the others work sometimes. Or a lot of the time. Or you have to take on the role of some of the others for a while.

When I see all of the code blocks in the notebooks I just think: can I have these in a git repo as files that are linked into the main document when you work on it as a notebook? So that I can write the code in PyCharm or VS Code or whatever?

I like literate programming by the way. But I think there is a place for it and a place where it isn’t a good fit. But since everything is based on it at this point, it should be destructed into a way where it is less of a pain for different disciplines to deal with.

I guess most people have been in this situation. You do something that bothers someone else, and you either wouldn’t get bothered by it yourself because not a big deal or because you don’t understand how it is offensive / how it was understood that way.

Here is the thing.

When someone else reacts in a negative way to what you do, it doesn’t really matter if you agree with them or “get it”, just apologize and try to understand it well enough so that you can try to avoid it in the future.

Everyone is different. Some of us have experienced a lot of things that results in triggers, different reactions or more extreme reactions to things.

Accept the boundaries people try to maintain, and try to not think about everything in relation to your perspective, but rather that everyone are different and one gets a lot further by not framing everything different from you as “weird”.

The way I use git with feature branches, rebasing, interactive rebase etc I’ve found it incredible useful to do my commits in multiple phases.

When I work on something I commit all the time, usually with messages that’s only useful to me.

Then when I’m ready to send it to review I will re do them, either as in squashing or something as in resetting all of them and re-doing them. Typically having separate commits for lining, fixing kind of related issues, making the project ready for the change I’m doing, the actual change, kind of related fixes after implementing it, unrelated fixes etc.

Useful both for keeping track of what I’m doing while working, and then making sure the git history makes sense for other people after.