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Hi all, this is Carlos and I’m the founder of ParrotsCage (www.parrotscage.com), a system I’ve been developing to help me overcome depression and anxiety. ParrotsCage has a few strategies to help with that:

  - It allows you to track your mood variations and then display it in a 30-days chart (or 90-days, depending on the screen resolution). This is important as usually when a psychiatrist or the health professional you are seeing asks you about how you are feeling, it’s hard to give an accurate answer as the last happenings or the mood of the day gets more importance than what really happened since the last time you talked to them (usually, 30 days ago at minimum).

  - Tick boxes (also named “Cards”) allows you to check in on medication intakes as well as any kind of events that you engage to, such as workouts, meditation, detox, and so on. These checkins also display in charts that overlaps with the mood variation chart, allowing one to find correlations and/or get insights on what might be helping and what frequency works best (excellent for habits development).

  - Insights generated by ChatGPT3. All the data you recorded is fed into ChatGPT and then we generate a summary of what happened on a monthly basis together with insights and actionable items. It is a faster way to get access to good moments you had, as well as not so good moments. Regardless, sharing monthly insights with the health professionals I visit allows for much more efficient communication and treatment.

I’d love to get feedback from you and in case you want to give it a try, please reach out. I’m still working on pricing and I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks so much, I hope you have great days ahead.

I had a similar demand and started working on something for myself. It's a very simple system where you have a set of checkin buttons and a progress button at the top. There's a progress page where all checkins and progress display in a chart that can overlap, making a little easier for one to see how the progress and the checkins possibly correlate.

I'm still working on a landing page, but I put some screenshots[1] together to show what I'm talking about. This is a mobile friendly application, data is grouped according to the screen width, meaning that on a computer you are able to see with more details the chart points.

The system is working well for me, now I have much more content to share with my doctors and track medicine usage as well as any other event in life I'd like to track, such as sports, naps, booze etc.

I'd be happy to provide access to whoever want to give it a try, just shoot me an email: username at gmail.

[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IXzFvwVjP11PtOTEvQ6L...

Yeap, but storing data in things like dropbox/drive/s3 would require the app to have some sort of indexing in place (I'm thinking about ElasticSearch), as querying on these storages would perform really bad I think.

Great post! I've been thinking about it myself for some time. My main concern is that once you let the user to hold the data, you might introduce a security issue as it is very unlikely the end user will protect its data as well as you would as a service provider, especially as you would be subject to prosecution if you did something "wrong" with the data (read "leaking" or "selling" it).

I guess you are right about APIs, they eventually won't provide what you need. I'd love to see Solid starting to be used for the apps I use, but honestly I don't feel like it will happen. I don't understand much about Urbit, but from what I read that sounds like another world.

That said, I think there's some startups doing some work with regards to data privacy and security (and it seems like it caught a lot of attention!). As for getting access to the data itself, I think a sort of "open-source" and "reverse engineering" approach would help here, meaning that if you have a proxy between you and the app's server, and supposing you can add plugins to this proxy, you could hijack the data, make sense of it and store somewhere else for your own usage.

Obviously, any external processing of the data would have to be granted by the app itself, but I have a feeling this is what their APIs would contribute with.

I'd be more than happy to talk more about this and even spend some time implementing a PoC, let me know if there's anyone else interested here and we can exchange ideas and/or code/docs/etc.

I started this project because currently it is too "hard" to profile requests for python webapps. There are attempts that create a new URL for you to inspect the results, but I guess that embedding the results directly into the response would be best, as you can check the info through devtools.

There are obviously space to improve, but I thought I would share my approach before I work more on it.

Will there be an API sometime in the future? Also will it be possible to whitelabel the template editor and/or make it embeddable?

Cool, but how can I sign up? -> https://coding.net/register (I don't understand a thing)

Thanks a lot for this project, I've been thinking about coding in the browser for a while, but you guys went much ahead... it is just sad for me to not understand Chinese, but hopefully it will get translated to more languages soon now it is open source!

Yeah, it seems like the work on asyncio may do what I want; I will update the post.

Thanks for the feedback. I think the post has much to be improved, but the idea was to get an idea of how that would be useful for other developers --

As for the `next()` and `consume()` approaches, yes, that would basically combine multiple generators in one and not block on any of them.

I will update the post with more information and also take into consideration all the work that has been done on asyncio module for Python3.4.

Does anyone here use www.passwordstore.org? I read through the source and I simply love how simple things are... therefore I wonder why something like keepass is preferred over passwordstore?

He has more than one research, he even has a factory where he provides materials to a big company here in Brasil. It is irrelevant for this discussion anyways, since it is completely unrelated.

Except the researcher is distributing the drug without charging for it. He's not interested in the money.

You know what is interesting? In the city I currently live (São Carlos, an inner city in the state of São Paulo, Brasil), there's a 20 years old research that is helping victims of cancer with a new drug. The idea is pretty simple, but unfortunately I don't have a source in english, so the following is in portuguese:

http://www.jornalciencia.com/saude/mente/5372-brasileiro-ter...

Here's the interesting part though, the Brazilian government and even ANVISA (Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency) are not giving a fuck about his discovery, thus the researcher is covering the costs of fabrication of drug and giving it away for free.

Thousands of people from all the country is coming to my city for this drug -- people who used it before says it is a miracle, it really works.

I guess the media can help pressing the government/ANVISA, and it is what is already happening (very slowly though). I hope this text I'm writing spread his discovery further and someway reach someone who can help us. I'm here for whatever questions you have and I will do my best in answering them.

Please share.

I really like this product, applying right now.

Ouch, about 2 hours since the announcement and the position is already closed!

I have more interesting subjects to read about, I will let the experts tell me their conclusion (when they get one.)

Right, IMHO QI test (and the brain teasers, anyways) could be used, but as a small part of a more complex process -- like, what about giving the applicant a real problem to work on? Unless you don't have enough time to make a hire, but in this case, well, good luck then.

I had to go through an IQ test and a couple of brain teasers for a job application -- I wasn't hired even though I scored well in the IQ test and answered correctly 4 out of 5 of the brain teasers, they were expecting an outstanding result (though they would pay you about $20/hour).

I came to conclusion that IQ tests and brain teasers are just bullshit (in the context above, that is). You usually expect an exceptional result of it, because really, in day to day life you usually complete much more challenges and give good solutions than, lets say, 90% of the population.

Right, but why they did it anyways?

There's no way I'd share my private key with whatever extensions there are. It just doesn't feel right.

Interesting, I didn't know that... I think I will start answering more now. Let these words be heard!

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I see a lot of value on this tool, because I've been in the same situation as you. I can't thank you enough for this, a tool that I've been wanting to implement for so long.

I wonder if the success of that "yo" app is based on this concept (even though I think using missed calls are way more effective than using the internet).

We're developing chartbliss, that is a tool for creating dashboards (but obviously you can create tabular reports as well). Check it out at http://staging.chartbliss.com/, feel free to get in contact with me in private and I will get you access to our private beta instance.

Exactly, and you can't even charge them for the time you lost _convincing_ them to describe what exactly they want and giving them new ideas as you go through the process. Such a mess. But hey, sometimes you get great connections there, I found one of best hackers I know there (but I'm afraid he was the exception).

Correct, also I think they were one of the first to implement something like that, influencing a lot of other websites to do the same. Bad LinkedIn!

If that attack is available for us to know, I wonder what can possibly be happening inside NSA?

I even wonder how these big guys/heroes like Julian and Snowden feel when they find out about it. I mean, maybe they just don't care about the stuff they have being accessed without their consent, it is supposed to be released anyways, but what about their conversations that are supposed to be highly confidential?