Finally made it through the week and I’m looking forward to the weekend. Today was kind of weird, I work from home answering calls but no calls came through, logged out and logged back in, refreshed the page etc. so I assumed that maybe I had been put one of the other queues. Long story short I spent all today replying to emails and other office work that needed to be done – I’m one of those people who can deal with ‘doing nothing’ for a short period of time but then I feel the need that I have to do something productive rather than just watching YouTube videos or read news. Long story short, I got a tonne of emails out of the way and other office stuff so at least if there is a follow up it isn’t as though I’ve wasted my time during the day.
It is the one habit I have to admit I’ve taken from working in the fast food industry which is the idea of not leaving work for the next crew who comes in or in my case when we closed up at the end of the night the last thing the morning crew want to do, on top of preparing for the day (cutting tomatoes, preparing the condiments for the burger board etc) to clean up what should have been done properly by the night crew. It is the reason I don’t like the idea of leaving stuff that rolls over to the new week because the problem is that eventually it builds up as a little bit is left over at the end of each week. A bit like cleaning, if there an extra bit of detailed cleaning done each night then it means there doesn’t need to be a big top to bottom clean and a mad rush around when head office come in to have a look around.
That does into my bigger pet peeve which is the mythology of being more efficient by multi-tasking – the reality is that you’re better off focusing on one thing at time, giving it all your attention rather than switching between tasks and giving each task part of your attention. The problem is if you only give part of your attention then you’re bound to make mistakes. The best thing to do is set a list of tasks and work through then one after the other, giving each task your full attention and getting it don’t quickly. It is the reason when I worked at a supermarket when I came in at around 6am I would bring the pallets out before the shop opened and just go hard at it filling up the freezes for around 4-5 hours so then by the time the first wave of customers came in the freezers were all topped up and it was just a matter of topping up during the day without having the stress of running around all day.
In a recent developer release of Windows 11 it appears that Microsoft is focusing on unifying their UI around a common UI framework. This was uncovered by phantomofearth over on X/Twitter:
It is work in progress but the one thing people need to recognise is the fact that yes Apple were able to deliver dark mode but that was because they rewrote Finder back in Mac OS X 10.6 in Cocoa (along with remaining components still using Carbon to be moved over to Cocoa) around 16 years ago meaning that making dark mode available was a fairly easy process. In the case of Microsoft not only are they gradually replacing the components of the Windows shell but they’re also creating a new framework as they go about doing it (see Windows App SDK, XAML and all those other wonderful projects on Github). It’ll be interesting to see what happens with Windows 11 25H2 – personally I don’t see it being released for 25H2 given all the rumours that it’ll be a relatively conservative update so it wouldn’t surprise me if 26H2 ends up being an update with a UI refresh, maybe an official announcement that Control Panel has been removed? one can only hope I guess.
On Monday I’ll visit mum and organise ordering a Beelink SER9 Pro AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 running Windows 11 but I’ll order a new keyboard, mouse and monitor from a local reseller. Regarding the phone, I’ll see what mum is interested in given that she is looking for a phone with a big screen but I’m wondering whether she would be better off getting an Android phone such as one from Samsung given that her laptop is a Chromebook and computer is running Windows 11. Regarding the laptop, I wonder whether we should replace it with one running Windows 11 given how it would work better with Android or an iPhone through the use of the Phone Link that Microsoft provides.
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