I hadn’t expected to see gas below $1/L ever again 🚗
Quarantine home gym weights 💪
A simple Shortcut for tracking workout time
I’ve been tracking my time at work for a while now, with the help of Toggl and Timery. Now that I’m working from home, work and home life are blending together, making it even more useful to track what I’m doing.
Physical exercise is essential to my sanity. So, I wanted to integrate my Apple Watch workouts into my time tracking. I thought I’d be able to leverage integration with the Health app through Shortcuts to add in workout times. Turns out you can’t access this kind of information and I had to take a more indirect route using the Automation features in Shortcuts.
I’ve setup two automations: one for when I start an Apple Watch workout and the other for when I stop the workout:
The starting automation just starts an entry in Timery:
The stopping automation, unsurprisingly, stops the running entry:
As with most of my Shortcuts, this is a simple one. Developing a portfolio of these simple automations is really helpful for optimizing my processes and freeing up time for my priorities.
The face you make when you’re dealt 23 damage in one round
A good day for board games
I’ve found the Eno’s new album Mixing Colours really helpful while working from home under quarantine with the rest of my family. 🎧
I enjoyed Star Trek Picard. A fun mix of nostalgia, new characters, and interesting story. Plus Patrick Stewart really is a great actor. I’m glad they had a chance to complete Data’s story, after the abrupt ending in Nemesis. 📺
2 kg of coffee should keep me going in quarantine for a while ☕️
A sentence I never expected to write: A big thank you to my sister for delivering much needed toilet paper while I was in quarantine. A messy emergency was approaching 😬
A hopeful sight in the backyard
A big thank you to One Academy for live-streaming exercise classes. Definitely helping my mental health, as I continue to be quarantined in a small rental house.
Our hastily constructed office in the rental house is working out okay. Mine is on the left. Fortunately I can perform almost all of my work with an iPad. Simultaneous conference calls are a bit tricky and one of us has to wander down the hall to reduce noise.
My new coworker is demanding more walking meetings
Can’t seem to get rid of these phantom email messages in iPadOS
Counterpart is one of my favourite TV shows over the past few years. So, great that The Incomprable podcast did an episode on the two seasons 📺
Vacation has begun!
Early signs of spring
Chilly, but fun ⛷ 🥶
Moses Boyd’s Dark Matter has a great, diverse sound. Well worth a listen 🎶
Figured out how to turn on the fireplace at the rental and Lucy has a new favourite spot
