I worked remotely from Tenerife last year. I was there two months, at first it was great, everything new and novel. But it wears off and towards the end of my stay I longed for home, community and my usual routine.

The best balance is occaisonal "pattern interrupts" like travel abroad (or within your own country). You do not necessarily need big sweeping vacations or "experiences". A bike ride in a forest for a few days with a friend you have not seen for months can give you that mental refreshment.

I used a CGM recently. I tried breakfast as oatmeal with blueberries and mixed in with peanut butter. It spikes my blood sugar outside the "normal range". I treat oatmeal as once a week treat to avoid food boredom.

The oatmeal was a "big bowl" variety from a packet. I heard rolled oats might be better but it's a hassle to cook.

Most days breakfast is scrambled eggs (3 eggs), spinach, cheese. Sometimes I add tuna or avocado for variety. That keeps things stable.

Yeah that tracks. In the mornings your body is still in sleep mode so carb intake will take longer to be absorbed. If you have diabetes you need more insulin and a longer time for it to have affect. So for sure eating slow release carbs will help with the peak. Eating fats like cheese/avocado/oil will dampen the peak as well, eggs have 1% carbs and weighs almost nothing.

Just pointing out that the peak is just how the body works.

The packet probably was rolled oats. The other main option is steel cut, which take longer to cook. When I used to eat steel cut oats for breakfast, I used a rice cooker with a timer so it would be ready when I woke up. On the weekend, I'd use milk instead of water since I had plenty of time to wait for it to cook instead of setting it up the night before, which made using milk a bit of a risk.

It's not as nice as cooking it properly, but you can cook rolled oats in the microwave in a couple of minutes.

If you lower the power and cook for longer or ends up being pretty much the same.

For my 1000W microwave I reduce power to 30% and cook for 12 minutes. Comes out perfect with little difference between stovetop.

Instant oats without additives exist. Just pure rolled oats that have been previously steamed in the factory.

Steel cut oats are much better than rolled oats for blood sugar control.

Preparing them "overnight oats" style eliminates the hassle of extra cook time.

Just a comment that the library has become my "third space" these days.

I am sooo grateful my local University library is open for public visitors. I visit every weekend and enjoy fast internet, a pleasant and quiet environment and can plug my laptop into one of many large desktop monitors here.

Fantastic shot!

I was in Tenerife in November 2024. I did some basic astrophotography one night with my Pixel 6 phone and a steady hand.

I managed to photograph M31, the Andromeda Galaxy for the very first time. It just appears as a faint oval smudge... but I was in awe.

Locating it was a challenge (I was flipping between a 2D star chart and my photos) so I was very happy to finally capture it. A few days later I discovered the Stellarium app which makes locating things much easier.

I had something similar!

300Mhz PII - it came in a black cartridge thing.

NVidia RIVA TNT which used the AGP bus on the Intel LX440 mobo.

A whopping 128Mb of RAM and 8Gb HDD.

I recall using a program called WinSplit to split the Nvidia driver over several floppy discs on my bosses Win3.1 machine in the office. I didn't have internet at home and really wanted to play Jedi Knight and Battlezone.

2025 - Year of the Linux Desktop

Woah, I would have loved a A1200 version back in 1993.

I loved this game, and remember having to swap several discs to play it before I eventually bought a HDD (a whopping 545Mb beast).

It was only recently that I saw the DOS intro on YouTube and realised the Amiga had been short-changed.

I guess playing this on the Mega Drive/Genesis I already knew I was being short changed. Also to have that much storage back then would have been life changing. I remember having a 120MB HDD in 1991 (?) and it felt like you would never run out of space. That was until you had both Doom and Doom 2 on it a few years later and combined took up about 30% of total storage.

Dune on the Genesis was incredible. I still own it!

I believe it's because in JavaScript some values or expressions are "truthy" or "falsey" depending on how they are evaluated.

Many languages work like that and a lot of the issues people point out with JS are applicable to many scripting languages. Usually people point out Maths problems...aka problems with floats, which isn't really a JS problem.

People also point out stuff like `[]+[]` where Array addition operator is not overloaded to handle it at all because the correct way is to use `.concat` so I think by default duck typing comes into play and in most cases with that in JS the preferred type is string.

I do wish that there was a "cleaner" spec of JS that wasn't as backwards compatible but fixed all of the gotchas and filled in every gap but there doesn't seem to be much call for it atm.

I wish more people would understand this.

I was borna Muslim but I consider myself a "cultural Muslim" and do not look into it any further.

It does not stop me volunteering at my local mosque food bank etc. The social interaction and doing some good for the community trumps any views I have on the religion.

I have a similar relationship to MiniDisc. I will never sell my collection and I still use it now and again when the urge strikes me.

I remember in the mid-1990s a friends brother was a big film buff, he showed us RoboCop on LaserDisc - the original directors cut. I remember being very shocked at the scene of Clarence Boddicker and his cronies shooting up Officer Murphy. But on the upside, I do remember being impressed with the sharp picture and Dolby Surround mix compared to VHS tapes.

I love my minidisc player. My first real reason to own an optical cable - 12 year old me was very cool.

It's a shame MD Data was too little too late.

And just such a pointless distinction - why not allow regular audio MDs to also store arbitrary data, and then push the format as a competitor to Zip disks?