The first thing I wanted from Plex on a watch was to exist. The second thing was not a tiny version of the larger Plex app; it was a way to stop music already playing elsewhere before the situation became concerning. Finding a phone, unlocking it, opening the right app and navigating to the right player is technically possible. It also takes a while when the wrong thing (or something) is coming out of a speaker or someone nearby’s noise cancelling headphones.

We have an electricity tariff that changes price every half hour. This is obviously a stupid distraction, a useful money-saving measure (I’ve saved about a third of my electricity costs over the last year) and a little taste of the future. Alongside that, it is a deep temptation to organise my life around this once it is there.

This is not my first go at making Octopus prices useful. Last year I wrote Octopus Agile Prices For Linux, which became Agile Rates, a GNOME app for smart tariff rates, cheap-time finding and usage history. Agile Prices is the smaller Android and Wear OS version. You choose your UK electricity region, it finds the current Octopus Agile import tariff and caches the upcoming half-hour rates. There is no account API key, usage history, export tariff support, Go support, Intelligent Go support, spend analysis, widget, notification system or attempt to become an energy management platform in miniature.

I do not always want to know what time it is. This is a slightly awkward position for someone who keeps making clocks, but there we are. Quite often the useful answer is not 17:42. It is “quarter to six”, “nearly lunch” or “you should probably start thinking about leaving”. The precise time is useful when catching trains, baking things and joining calls; the rest of the time it can be a bit much.

There are lots of very good ways to get cricket scores on the internet. If you want ball-by-ball commentary, wagon wheels, video clips, scorecards, player stats, match reports, tables, alerts, news, and more then you should use one of the proper cricket apps or websites. They are better at this than my tiny watch app.

I made CricketWatch because those apps are trying to cater to everyone, and I just want to know one or two things. Show me the live England and Surrey matches on my wrist. Not every match. Not every league. Not the IPL unless Surrey have taken a very strange turn. Just the sides I actually want to keep half an eye on while doing something else.