Pleasantly surprised by the Apple Watch
Pleasantly surprised.
That’s exactly how I would sum up my own personal review of the Apple Watch. I’ve been on the fence for a long time regarding the Apple Watch. Last weekend though, I bought a series 5 and I have been pleasantly surprised by the device and what it can do. According the Cult of Mac, I’m not the only one.
I often listen to podcasts when I’m cooking, cleaning, etc. Being able to skip forward in a show, or pause it, from my Apple Watch without having to stop what I’m doing and walk over to my phone is very convenient.
The fitness tracking is by far the best aspect of it for me though. Getting in enough exercise and movement through the day is important, which I why I’m already won over by the three rings feature of the Activity app.
Productivity reminder from Nicholas Bate. The list is your assistant.
I like the idea behind the Iconfactory’s Tot app. Just a limited number of spaces that you can write in and using Markdown too.
Useful writing
I’ve been trying to find a way to reboot my writing habit for a couple of years now. The trouble is, most things I have written are on too wide a range of topics. When you’re covering a wide range of topics, it feels like you’re jumping from one subject to the next. I need to narrow these topics down.
Paul Graham’s latest essay on how to write usefully got me thinking about this again.
If you narrow the topic sufficiently, you can probably find something you’re an expert on. Write about that to start with. If you only have ten readers who care, that’s fine. You’re helping them, and you’re writing. Later you can expand the breadth of topics you write about.
I need to focus on one or two topics and start from there.
Despite the many things that Visual Studio can do, I find it very uncomfortable to use when writing code. My preferred coding font just doesn’t render as nicely as it does in Microsoft’s open source text editor, Visual Studio Code.
I wonder if there will come a time when Microsoft recommend their open source text editor over their proprietary IDE?
You know you’re a golfer when you start to despise the snow.
It’s not all bad, though. I’ve booked the boys and me into the indoor studio for 90 minutes, followed by lunch.
A very dark and broody sky for the snow moon.
There hasn’t been much that has dazzled me since recently picking up C#. I must admit though, I do like using C#’s query expressions. Pretty powerful stuff when used with classes.
I often wondered what kind of impact web page bloat has on CO2 emissions. Now I know.