potomak | 2 years ago | on: Gut–Brain axis
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potomak | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
I built an app for a family member, who is a nutritionist, that makes it easier for her to stay connected with her patients via WhatsApp. It keeps track of appointments and sends automatic reminders.
Lately I decided to jump on the ChatGPT bandwagon and added a feature that integrates with the OpenAI API to suggest replies to messages from her patients.
It was overall a fun project. It gave me the chance to explore the integration with WhatsApp Business API (used to communicate with patients), OpenAI API (used to suggest message replies), Discord (used to notify events).
Apart from the APIs, it has zero dependencies. It’s deployed as a static website hosted on GitHub. The backend is written as a set of AWS Lambda functions. Data is stored in DynamoDB. Frontend is vanilla JS.
potomak | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
http://giovanni.curlybrackets.it
I'm documenting the process for creating an adventure game on iOS and tvOS using SpriteKit.
potomak | 8 years ago | on: Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travelers Hours of Time
I must say the logo resembles Tomatoes[0] productivity app logo very much.
[0] http://tomato.es
potomak | 9 years ago | on: No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter
A post against modal windows usability that contains a link to a site that use one, that's incoherent.
potomak | 9 years ago | on: A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins and resources
That list is missing a section for terminal music players. I created one in Haskell some time ago: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-player
potomak | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: MyHours – Time tracking for digital nomads
If you want to stay focused and track your time I built Tomatoes[0]. It's a pomodoro technique timer and a time tracker. It's web based, it's completely free and open source[1]. I built it when I started freelancing and I was in need of both a tool that would have helped me to be productive and to track time that I spent on clients projects.
[0] http://tomato.es
potomak | 9 years ago | on: Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
Definitely Matteo Centenaro[0] and Andrea Dal Ponte[1] for their incredible contributions to Tomatoes[2], and our supporters[3] who boosted our morale and made the project sustainable.
potomak | 9 years ago | on: Insecam: Large Directory of Unsecure Cameras
This is a hack I build with some friends based on that list: http://surveillance.life/
potomak | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (November 2016)
Tomatoes (http://tomato.es)
Description: Pomodoro technique® time tracker.
Last month we built the public API. This month we want mainly to rebuild leaderboards using async tasks.
Skills needed: Ruby, Ruby on Rails.
http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes
License: MIT
potomak | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
Tomatoes (http://tomato.es)
Pomodoro technique® time tracker.
We'd like to build a public API, but there's a lot of other tasks that could be done.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS, JavaScript.
http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes
License: MIT
potomak | 9 years ago | on: The Squirrel Programming Language
potomak | 10 years ago | on: Ten years on LinkedIn
I totally agree with you, except for the "not leaving LinkedIn" part. I closed my account about 1 year ago after having to deal with spam, bad UI, and useless connections.
Also removing your profile from the network is a bad use experience: I had to send a customer support request to close it because I had more than 500 connections.
I think that I will build something in the near future because I like the idea of collecting connections and achievements concerning my professional career, but I'll never use LinkedIn again.
potomak | 10 years ago | on: Make 8-bit art
Check out also Draw![0], you can use it to draw tiny pixel art pictures and GIF animations.
Update: I made a while ago to experiment with Redis and the <canvas> element. The code is open source at https://github.com/potomak/drawbang.
potomak | 10 years ago | on: How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday
I tried the Pomodoro Technique to avoid distractions and to stay more focused when I started freelancing. I was also trying to track my work time, so I built Tomatoes, a simple web app to do both.
The app is open source, you can download the code at http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes, or you can use the version running at http://tomato.es.
potomak | 10 years ago | on: Working remotely is hard
I totally agree with you. When I started to work as a freelancer I felt the same for the first year. That's why I dediced to start, with a former coworker of mine, a coworking place with accessible rates near the city where I lived. Now that I'm not a freelancer anymore, and I don't run actively Meme coworking[0] anymore, I'm proud because it's still active and full of interesting people!
potomak | 10 years ago | on: 365 days of pixel art
Nice, thanks for the suggestions!
I definitely must find some time to make a lot of planned features/fixes. See a list of them at https://github.com/potomak/drawbang/issues.
potomak | 10 years ago | on: 365 days of pixel art
Because I was lazy and you can move left or down by 1 by moving right or up by 15 :)
potomak | 10 years ago | on: 365 days of pixel art
Great project! I'd like to tell to everyone who want to start drawing pixel art, I built a very simple tool to get started with this technique: http://drawbang.com.
Try it, give me your feedback, and share your pixel art masterpieces!
potomak | 11 years ago | on: Why PowerPoint should be banned
Well, about presentations, a couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation about a tool[0] to create text adventures with Markdown and created a slide deck using that tool. So the deck was itself a "presentable" text adventure[1].
[0] https://github.com/potomak/gist-txt
[1] https://potomak.github.io/gist-txt/#737a452d6f38c2b87403
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For instance, did you know that bacteria in our guts help us “digest” and expel heavy metals?
In the third part of the episodes about the microbiota[0] she talks about the gut-brain axis:
> l’intestino può comunicare al cervello uno stato di disagio o disbiosi procurando, oltre al gonfiore, anche un possibile stato d’ansia o abbassamento dell’umore
that translates more or less to:
> the gut can communicate with the brain a dysbiotic state causing, in addition to swelling, a state of anxiety
The podcast is in Italian, but the transcriptions can be easily translated in English.
[0] https://dietista.it/2023/03/29/e-la-pancia-non-c-e-piu-terza...