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I'm looking for a decent air purifier which filters down to at least the PM 0.3 level...

I realized this is fairly well enclosed... and has a plastic front, versus a mesh... so an air purifier could be a good addition, given that one can encounter trucks, smog on the sidewalk from time to time.

I noticed that the Burley bee is fairly enclosed... and driving alongside roads can end up blowing some pretty noxious exhaust onto you, and I would feel comfortable with something that is portable, and filters down to the PM 0.3 micron level...

Any suggestions gang? 😊

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We are working on an open source project which has an Android app client. As you know, the path to approval is tedious with the Google Play store, but that doesn't mean that people shouldn't be able to enjoy your app... so why not put the codebase on GitHub?

After some of the horror stories I've read... about people essentially hijacking your codebase, and presenting it as their own... we are now reluctant, and don't want to share the opensource project until we actually release the (free) app on the play store.

Is this a valid concern to have? or is this something which occurs only on other platforms?

Android is fairly simple... you put the binary up on GitHub, or F-Droid, and call it a day. Maybe publish to the Play Store, which is annoying... but eh... manageable.

But iOS's walled garden nonsense is worse than I thought... Free Apple dev accounts expire signed builds after 7 days apparently... and if that wasn't bad... $99 / year *recurring* fee?

That policy decision is nuts to me...

For folks who are maintaining these open-source projects, how do you handle monetization (i.e. charging on the App Store vs keeping source free), and what work-flows have made your life easier?

I'm particularly interested in workflows where the two ecosystem codebase must be kept identical.

So this usually means (if you're starting off with Android - usually the case) you want to isolate core logic into pure Kotlin modules... Decoupling things like storage/crypto behind interfaces... sticking to pure Jetpack Compose UI... and standardizing the concurrency/state mgmt concerns... and MAYBE the transfer to iOS will be painless...

As someone who hasn't taken the plunge into iOS yet... How has it worked out in reality?

It's going to be a almost a month since I "quit" coffee, but I made the mistake of having some caffeinated bubble tea (and those places often make strong tea, which you don't notice over the flavorings) and I was back at square one the next day...

Developed a migraine around the same time the next day, where my body expected the caffeine.

So, just a heads up to everyone... Your brain increases the number of adenosine receptors in response to regular caffeine use (see upregulation), and it takes months for the brain to prune these after you stop.

You are an "addict." You cannot go back to having "a little bit" without suffering the consequences of a "reset."

Sure, you can taper off... but once you're done... You need to be completely off caffeine (i.e. no matcha, no dark chocolate, for a good 6 months at least)

I was initially reluctant to phrase the title as such, because I didn't want to be giving incorrect medical information, simply based on my own anecdotal experience.

But apparently, it turns out that there is now key medical consensus on this:

The term is now: Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction (EIB) and The American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline, AAAAI/ACAAI, IOC, have all switched to this term.

The reason is that the former term implied that it was the exercise which was causing the asthma.

I picked up on this a few years ago, when we made our home's air quality supremely clean.

Exercise outdoors? Asthma. Exercise indoors? No flare-up.

Which got us thinking... that there's a good likelihood that "Exercise Induced Asthma" is sort of BS... and implies that people with asthma simply cannot do any cardio.

Long story short... I do 160 beats per minute, sweating till my clothes are drenched cardio indoors, and don't experience any symptoms indoors.

It's well worth investing in a good air purifier (and possibly also air quality monitoring down to the PM 0.3 range) and perhaps you'll be able to do cardio again too!

Good luck!

Initial strategy: Switched to a Mushroom Coffee brand (with less caffeine), and once the bag ended, I discovered that it was a subscription! so another month went by... and I was now getting addicted to the mushroom coffee... and drinking more and more of it.

Tried to quit after the 2nd bag ended, and got 2 days of debilitating headaches, and I caved in and started drinking regular coffee again.

Tapering down: Then for 2 weeks, alternated between matcha powder on some days.... green tea on others... and Milk with some coffee in it on some days...

Final cut off: Finally took the plunge... and suffered 1 night of a debilitating migraine, and took Tylenol, and slept it off.

And that was it!

It's been a little over a week, and I've been doing cardio regularly, and lifting weights, eating well, and sleeping well to ensure that I don't experience a "crash," or "flat" feeling. I also realized that replacing my morning coffee with a glass of milk is something I enjoy.

I hope this helps someone quit!

So I use the Virtual Desktops feature in Windows 11.

This means that Obsidian is "pinned" to a particular virtual desktop.

The only other option which seems to work here is SublimeText.

Any other elegant work-arounds?

I'm surprised that I don't really see any talk around it, and a select few projects displaying the badge. Is it because it never truly caught on, because it's viewed as a party-pooper of sorts, or am I late to the game, and it's a fad that's passed?

For context, I really got into open source about a year ago, and we followed their recs on our project, and I found some to be a bit pedantic, but others do seem to keep you honest/disciplined.

Was worth it to have those pinned dependencies? I'd say yes. Some of the work felt forced, but at the same time you learn a lot about your toolchain in the process.

Would love to hear if anyone leaned into that, and if they gained from the overall experience, or if it was just a tedious checklist.

What I probably appreciated the most was that it forced me to slow down and think through the documentation... (I personally found that refreshing and rewarding) asides from the tests/automation, etc.

https://github.com/markrai/scrumboy

We started with the following goal:

Can a small team replace their Trello (or Jira) instance, today while retaining most of the enterprise features, and run it on a NAS? And I think we did quite well.

The other skepticism was, what does it do better than its open-source competitors? For starters, it's the most lightweight offering available (single Go binary), with truly unique features including:

- Infinite pan brainstorming note wall (like Mural)

- native mermaid + markdown support

- anonymous shareable (paste-bin style) boards

- real-time multiuser collab / SSE

- SSO, 2FA, OIDC

- MCP integration

- full-featured PWA + native notifications

- Wallpaper customization

- i18n support for 23 languages

We run this on a mid-range UGreen (DXP2800), as well as an older Synology (220+) as our daily driver.

Hope you like it!

Scenario: The original maintainer/contributor has done perhaps 98% of the work.

There are only a handful of other contributors who have done small bug-fixes, etc.

First I thought... Okay maybe I can come up with some type of "tip jar" system, where any donations received on the project can be disbursed among the other contributors...

That means... tracking down the payment disbursement details of 5 other folks around the world.... and keeping track of each contributor for the entire existence of the project? Nah...

Or perhaps use a "Buy Me Coffee" alternative, which somehow supports multiple disbursements? Also untenable...

Maybe I'm over thinking this... and perhaps the founder / majority maintainer should keep the donations.... but.... ugh... goes against the whole community vibe... and perhaps the classy thing to do is not to have one at all.

Or wait! A third option: All donations received will be somehow given back to the community in some form of donation... but who/where to donate to?

Just a discussion... would be nice to get some thoughts.

I literally take the pitcher with me on trips... because no other water will do... and I used to wait until the reading was at 0.6, but now I start hating the water even at 0.2

You know what I'm talking about... That feeling of euphoria.... megalomania... that...."I wanna swing from the chande-leeeeirrrr" feeling you get after a nice morning cup of coffee...

Can sometimes be replicated after a good sweaty cardio run...

Did you ever experience it again? If so, how long did it take after being completely caffeine-free?

The withdrawals included migraines, and then complete lack of motivation and borderline depressive mood... so I just took my morning cup... but emotionally, I'm done... I don't want to be dependent on this damn substance anymore.

The caffeine pills I'm finding are 100 mg... which is way too much... I need something I can taper down incrementally..

Any particular brand that you can recommend?

I'm kind of a stickler to detail.. and didn't necessarily want to be "guessing" tablespoons of coffee powder, and what not... hence the request.

Thank you.

After almost 4 years of being in this space, I've realized that what some air quality detectors are detecting as VOCs are actually PM 0.3 particles, and vice versa.

One huge observation is that a high PM 0.3 outdoors, invariably produces a higher VOC indoors - consistently.

Can someone who is more educated and scientifically inclined, weigh in on this, please?

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There needs to be a toggle there which forces it to create the image if the user wants it. Otherwise, NO! I don't want an image generated as you explain something to me which can easily be done so in words!

v1.26 basically continues a pattern we've been seeing: most of the work is going into the runtime, toolchain, scheduler, garbage collector, and standard lib rather than new features.

Do we prefer that it stays intentionally small? In other words.. over the next 5 years...

Should it invest in performance/tooling or introduce selected features? Has the restraint been a strength in your opinion, or holdint it back?

Curious what others think...