Weekly Post #104

Last weekly post of the year and also marks 2 years of “weekly posts”. 🍻

Watch Ultra 3

Upgraded Apple Watch series 7 to Apple Watch Ultra 3. My initial impressions on the upgrade:

• The obvious: the screen size is bigger than expected, and I didn’t think I would like it, but surprisingly, I do.

• The brighter display is definitely a welcome change.

• I thought the watch would feel too big and odd on my thin wrist, but it doesn’t feel that way at all when I wear it.

• I don’t fall in the target audience for this watch, so I don’t think I would continue owning Ultra ¹.

• Really enjoying the waypoint watch face - particularly how compass shows the location of where I parked the car.

Evolution of the weekly posts

The weekly posts started as an attempt to get me back into blogging on a regular cadence.

I kept it simple: just post once a week and share whatever I felt like. It became a place to share interesting links I found, pictures I took, and to express my thoughts, rather than posting on microblogging sites.

Later, I experimented with “TWIL” (This Week I Learned)[emacs stuff I should have known] style posts.

I briefly used it to keep me accountable for replicating art and learning on Procreate with my iPad Mini.

Now, the posts have evolved into something more focused. Instead of cramming short, bite-sized “microblogging” style notes into one post, I want to write longer, more thoughtful pieces.

Each stage served a greater purpose for me. The TWIL posts, for example, pushed me to learn something new each week, even if only for the sake of creating a post. It wasn’t just about documenting what I learned; it forced me to seek intellectual satisfaction and grow.

I’m still figuring out which style I want to stick with for the “weekly posts.” Maybe I should drop the title “Weekly Post” and go for something more focused, which might be more appealing? Or perhaps I should keep the weekly posts light and mix in the longer, more focused ones separately.

Like I said, still figuring it out, but I really enjoy making these weekly posts — which, I guess, is what matters most.