u/phishery — reddlx

Vibe coded Mobi Siri shortcut

This is a quick proof of concept and not something that I’m ready to release on GitHub just yet, but one of the things I was annoyed with is having to unlock my phone open the app to look at my insulin on board. Now I can just ask Siri “what is my IOB?“ since I was at it I also added one for what is my battery. There’s a few other things that I’ll be able to extract the same way such as bonus and basal related info. As you can see from the screenshot, it’s pulling from Tandem source which only updates once an hour so there’s a little bit of calculating to be done and that’s definitely the part where I’m not sure this is something that can be public as I don’t want to risk in accuracy.

u/phishery — 12 days ago

▲ 146 r/AdvancedKnitting

One more Wintering Cap

I had never made the same object twice…until I found this hat. This is the third version I have made. I am using left over knitting for olive merino from my completed Indian Nights blanket along with mYak Fior di Lino Mountain Mist (Isabell Kraemer Color Palette).

I am really happy with my color choices and where I placed them.

I really need to find my next major project but until then I may be handing these out at Christmas left and right. I am going to make folded brim version that keeps the pattern as well.

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wintering-cap

u/phishery — 2 months ago

▲ 2 r/TandemDiabetes

Considering switching from t:slim to Mobi — just discovered the extended bolus/carb entry issue

I’m a longtime t:slim user and I’m strongly considering switching to the Mobi. In doing my research, I just discovered something that’s giving me pause: apparently on the Mobi, you can’t simply enter a bolus in units and then choose to extend part of it. You have to enter carbs to get into the extended bolus workflow.

This is pretty annoying for me because after years of pumping, I often already know exactly how many units I want for a particular meal. I don’t necessarily want to go back and forth adjusting a carb number just to make the calculator arrive at a dose I already know.
It gets even more awkward because I don’t dose based strictly on carbohydrates. I also account for protein, particularly with higher-protein meals.

Depending on the protein source and other factors, up to roughly 58% of protein can eventually contribute to glucose, generally over a longer time horizon than carbs. A lot of the time, the protein component is specifically what I’m trying to cover with the extended portion of my bolus.

One workaround I’m considering is basically creating a fake/simple carb ratio just to make the Mobi interface easier to use — something like 1 unit = 10g of “carbs.” So if I know I want 7.5 units total, I’d enter 75g and then, for example, deliver 5 units now and extend the remaining 2.5 units.

Obviously the downside is that my logged carbohydrate data would become garbage because those numbers wouldn’t represent my actual carb intake. They’d basically just be a shorthand for the insulin dose I want.

For those of you who moved from t:slim to Mobi and use extended boluses regularly: What are you actually doing in practice?

Are you entering placeholder/fake carbs? Have you come up with a simple ratio like this? Are you manually splitting boluses instead? Or is there some other workflow that makes this less annoying?

I’d especially like to hear from people who dose for protein/fat or who already know their meal doses in units rather than calculating everything from carb counts every time.

If anyone from Tandem reads this sub Reddit, this would definitely be a feature. I would vote to fix in your workflow for advanced users that count more than just carbohydrates and frequently use extended boluses, particularly for people that have highly repetitive meals and they know the exact amount of insulin for that repetitive meal.

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u/phishery — 2 months ago

▲ 304 r/AdvancedKnitting

Wintering Cap — a little recovery knit

Just finished the Wintering Cap⁠ as a small recovery project after finishing my Indian Nights blanket⁠. I needed something manageable to fill the post-big-project void before diving into the next obsession.

Yarn is Knitting for Olive Merino in Quince (yellow) and mYak Fior di Lino in Graphite.

I’m currently planning a pretty ambitious sashiko jacket project, so I may be putting down the knitting needles for a bit and heading into a different textile rabbit hole.
A satisfying little project to close out this knitting stretch.

u/phishery — 2 months ago

▲ 1.9k r/AdvancedKnitting

Indian Nights Blanket — 644 days (1 year, 9 months) in the making

It’s finally done! I cast on the Indian Nights Blanket in mid-October 2024, and 644 days later — 1 year and 9 months — I’m calling it finished.

I knit this in a custom colorway I put together using Knitting for Olive Merino, rather than the palette called for in the pattern. Choosing and balancing the colors was a project in itself, but I love how the combination came out.

For those who’ve followed my progress posts, the last big hurdle was the finishing. I covered the steeks with a “steek sandwich,” worked with two very long needles that ran around the entire perimeter of the blanket. I also added a folded picot hem of my own design, which gave the edges a clean, polished finish I’m really happy with. The edge was probably the most painstaking part of the project, but I feel like it really elevates the blanket with that doubled fabric making a frame.

This project pushed me on colorwork, steeking, and finishing techniques, and I learned something new at nearly every stage. Happy to answer questions about the colorway, the steek sandwich, the picot hem, or anything else.

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/indian-nights-blanket
My project page: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Phishery/indian-nights-blanket

Previous updates:

https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/VubK8Nciz0
https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/RHI8OHtFW6
https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/QyoM8jtetI
https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/1UfWMgHx44
https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/rqAX7QxZQQ

u/phishery — 3 months ago

▲ 2.1k r/knitting

Indian Nights Blanket — 644 days (1 year, 9 months) in the making

It’s finally done! I cast on the Indian Nights Blanket in mid-October 2024, and 644 days later — 1 year and 9 months — I’m calling it finished.

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/indian-nights-blanket
My project page: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Phishery/indian-nights-blanket

Previous updates:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/VubK8Nciz0\](https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/VubK8Nciz0) [https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/RHI8OHtFW6\](https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/s/RHI8OHtFW6)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/QyoM8jtetI\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/QyoM8jtetI)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/1UfWMgHx44\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/1UfWMgHx44)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/rqAX7QxZQQ\](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedKnitting/s/rqAX7QxZQQ)

u/phishery — 3 months ago