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arosequiston How to Clean Your Laptop

I'm not a scientist, but this paper found "high level bacterial contamination" of cell phones: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466825/

Anecdotally, we were recently in the NICU of a children's hospital and they required washing our hands and cleaning our cell phones before entering. It doesn't seem too far-fetched that they would have a reason for doing so.

arosequiston Gyroscope Annual Report 2015

Do the "Top Albums In 2015" come from RescueTime? If so, how can that be enabled from within RescueTime?

arosequiston Kinto – open-source alternative to Firebase and Parse

That's what it looks like [1]. Every operation is done locally via IndexedDB, and then you manually perform syncs.

[1] https://kintojs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

arosequiston Transit – A format for conveying values between different languages

They also released a podcast episode about Transit, which doesn't seem to be mentioned on the blog post:

http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/060-tim-ewald