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Why did you make a native app instead of PWA? Because of push notifications or just ease of development?

Also, would be nice to add some screenshots of the web UI.

Looks like a nice little app!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good course to take to learn the basics of nutrition. I've done some very very simple ones from my insurance company for a small incentive but looking for something more serious and rooted in current scientific consensus (which I hear is not always so clear when it comes to nutrition).

According to the NYT article[0] "about five million borrowers are in default" which means like 1.5% of the population is about to have 15% of their wages garnished. Seems pretty intense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/student-loan-deb...

Which states are allowing it?

Also this hn comment seems to confirm it's not a tech problem just a policy one!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007271

In Germany they allow people to install solar panels on their balconies.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/21/germany-embraces-balkon...

Though last I looked this probably isn't feasible in the US due to differences in our electrical systems or something like that?

I also don't like typing long messages on my phone that's why I use this keyboard that will do high quality transcriptions via whatever AI provider you want. Much better than siri/google speech to text on device.

https://github.com/DevEmperor/Dictate

If you wanna stay up to date on this one just refresh the Wikipedia page. They are on it like crazy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_strikes_in_...

Which three did you contribute and how'd you pick them?

There's an rule in the EU that says you can't feed the insects pork and then let those insects go on to be fed to pigs (same for beef and chicken). This is intended to prevent the transmission of diseases like Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (like "mad cow disease"). As I understand it, this rule isn't because we have shown it's dangerous to do the pig -> insect -> pig chain but rather because we haven't shown that it's safe. Arnold van Huis and his team at Wageningen University are putting quite some energy researching the safety and lobbying the EU to change the rules based on the findings. At one of the talks those folks they said it's basically a black box of trying to get what kind of science the regulators will consider acceptable.

As you might guess, making sure the food waste you feed the insects doesn't have _any_ animal proteins in it is quite logistically challenging and so afaik nobody is doing that at a large scale.

I did quite a bit of research into the history of insects in the food system, especially in the Netherlands. While I was rooting for Ynsect and other big players to figure something good out I believe that it's a problem much better suited to a smaller scale (perhaps on the city level). Basically, have the food waste from various stores brought to a facility to be fed to insects and then let those insects be turned into whatever (pet food, fish food, trendy protein bars).

Is there any way to buy your ebook book DRM free? I know that's not always easy for authors to make available but I thought I'd ask.

Did you also write "Inspire!: Inspiration for Life and Life at Work" ?

Goodreads seems to think so. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14291276.Joel_Burke

Looks like this is the book: https://www.rebootinganation.com/

Rebooting a Nation: The Incredible Rise of Estonia, E-Government and the Startup Revolution Paperback by Joel Burke

I'm curious how much resources the IRS puts towards these vs audits due to other flags. I remember hearing that many ICE raids were due to reports made by civilians rather than some internal data gathering project.

I've enjoyed digging up an old flight itinerary to see how much I paid back in 2015 or just looking at the messages a company replied in support and realizing I'm not buying from them again because they didn't fix the problem.

Do they work well for when you want to preview text? Like show the first 100 characters of a paragraph and then click to expand?

I read/skimmed it this year. I don't feel it was worth it. The first few and last few chapters have some nuggets but for the most part it's pretty highly technical stuff that feels not super relevant or interesting for a software engineer today (in my opinion).

Was Typst falling short in any particular area that made you not want to use it? (If it was on your radar at all). I think it would work for your use case and could also run client side if needed.

Here's the TS library: https://github.com/Myriad-Dreamin/typst.ts

And they recently cut 2.5 flash to 20 requests per day and removed 2.5 pro all together.

Is there a standard protocol for the way things like Cline sometimes give you multiple choice buttons to click on? Or how does that compare to something like this?

What do you mean background tasks?

I no link yet but I'm working on a little telegram (for now) bot to help me stay on top of the projects I want to do.

Basically LLM + Todoist MCP + some scheduling and clever prompts.

So when it says:

> The body can contain any Markdown; it is not injected into context.

It just means it's not injected into the context until the skill is used or it's never injected into the context?

https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/skills.md

For those curious: https://foldersync.io/

10 euros for an Android license for or $28 (yes they use two currencies on one page) for a desktop license. The free ad supported version on the play store has over a million downloads.

$8 per user per month with 5 seat minimum. Verified via goodstack.

Looks pretty nice! Do I understand correctly you can have it run any JS in an endpoint too? Seems you could host your whole app with this

https://trailbase.io/getting-started/first-ui-app/#custom-en...

I think you might be looking for something like this: https://protomaps.com/

Not nearly as much as cars and highways are subsidized.

Strong Towns talks quite a bit about how especially suburban roads are not financially sustainable.

If you have any transfers as part of that to muni or other services you'll be happy to know that they'll be much cheaper/free starting in December.

https://clipper2.hikingbytransit.com/

I know people like to talk about edible insects mainly in terms of environmental outcomes but having tried insects from many cuisines and cultures I think the new world of flavors they come with is underrated. There's a big ick factor for many but if you can get yourself to try it you just might be surprised.

My favorite was freshly prepared (no roasted in a factory long ago) hormigas culonas in Colombia. We tried them rare, medium, and well done with different dishes and the flavors were wonderful but very hard to compare.

I've been writing https://urbanismnow.com weekly for a year. The idea is to bring you the best ideas from around the world to inspire action where you (c)are.

It's been going well for a side project and now I'm thinking of expanding to have a directory of urbanists on a map so you can easily find people involved in the local discourse and how to get involved.