Weekly Notes 2024.04

2024-01-28 2 min read
  • Overall, this week was relatively uneventful (outside of some stuff at work). I didn’t focus much on personal projects, except for…
  • Only a few weeks after claiming that I was sticking with Todoist for the foreseeable future for as my task manager, I once again got curious about OmniFocus, and ended up switching my entire task list over mid-week. Todoist has been implementing more team-based features recently, which I don’t need. And something about OmniFocus keeps drawing my attention… We’ll see how long it lasts.
  • On Saturday, I spent a substantial amount of time becoming familiar with the Nix package manager, which I am interested in using for reproducible builds of a project at work. The basic premise was easy to learn, though it took most of the day to get a fully functional solution.
  • Sunday so far has consisted of Divine Service in the morning, some cooking over lunch (which included prep for the week ahead), and some small amount of time focusing on a work project.

Read

Listened To

  • Accidental Tech Podcast: 571: Adding Some Carrot
  • Clockwise: 538: If I Lose It, I’ll Die
  • Connected: 486: Elden Widge
  • Getting Things Done: 242: Slice of GTD Life with Richards and Spurgeon
  • Late Night Linux: 265
  • Linux Matters: Fetch Is Going to Happen
  • Mac Power Users: 728: All About AppleCare
  • The Omni Show: How Kaitlin Salzke uses OmniFocus - Part 2
  • The Rebound: 479: $3500 Worth of FOMO
  • The Talk Show With John Gruber: 393: ‘An Asterisk on the Bento Box’, With Marco Arment
  • Upgrade: 496: 40th Anniversary of the Mac Draft
  • We’re Not Wrong: About the New Hampshire Primary (Live from Manchester)

Watched

  • Reacher (2022), S2, E05-08