i'm interested in this approach. what is your age and starting weight and what is your fasting window regime and what amount of calories per day do you shoot for?
I am a 30-year-old male. 172 cm and around 60 kg starting weight (skinny-fat, slender build, quite high fat % and almost no muscle).
After the initial water weight loss, my weight has been fluctuating around the 55 kg mark. However, fat loss is really, really noticeable. I had a pretty huge belly, and now you can see my abs. As I haven't lost that much weight, and as it remains stable while I notice more fat loss, I am certain I am also gaining lean body mass in the process.
I try to fast 18:6, by consuming 3 shakes of my own DIY keto powdered food (i.e. DIY soylent) at 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00, for around 650 kcal each. I also drink black coffee with 25 grams of butter some mornings if I feel like it.
I don't do IF every day, especially if I travel or if I stay over at my girlfriend's. You don't have to do it every single day to reap the benefits, as long as you stay in ketosis, or at worst as long as you don't fill your liver glycogen stores completely.
i learned to program with python and flask and promptly started hammering out my project. flask was great for learning piece by piece what goes into a web app but eventually it grew to a point where i was relying on all these extensions that were no longer maintained and i was spending alot of time to configure and setup every last bit of functionality i needed and every extension was like a new DSL to learn.
The obvious move at the time was to move to django and I spent some time familiarizing myself with it's own DSL. But boy was i struggling all along the way to do things how I liked in Flask with django. The Django Templates were extremely limiting (no modules) and couldn't even do regular python things and I came to find that extensions for Django were in no better shape than flask's. There was no clear solution for rate limiting and various other things I was looking for.
I've followed rails from a distance for a long time but, coming from python, ruby seemed so abstract to me i could just never figure it out but towards the end of my django time, i was finding that rails did/had everything i wanted and it all worked just the way i wanted it to and it was calling to me really hard. i took a big leap and spent a couple months diving fully into ruby, doing all the tutorials, reading all the books. at this point i am officially converted and my project app with it is already further along than i ever got with flask or django. when they say "ruby/rails is built for programmer happiness", they really mean it. and i can really feel/appreciate it. it's extremely fun to use and to see real progress without having to rack my brain and figure out some internals before i can proceed every so many hours. i'm just getting shit done and things work just how you'd intuitively think they should. rails ftw
I guess that will be up to each user to decide. I don't have any never-been-done before features planned, but I do think I'm putting them together in a stand-out way that provides just a pleasant note-taking experience. simple/fast/effective/expansive without being bloated, waiting for syncing (this will be a "hybrid app"), or annoying in all the ways i find other apps to be.
My usual reply is that I am compelled to write notes in email, on wikis, in docstrings, etc. This is because I work for various companies at different points in time, work on open source projects, serve on a standards committee, etc. All of these groups have different tools.
For a while I used OneNote heavily even though it is by no means optimized for writing technical notes (formatting source code is much harder than it should be; stupid Microsoft killed OneNote by obnoxious marketing methods such as stuffing multiple links for it on the task bar, defaulting by sending anything you print into OneNote, etc. They never thought that devs are an important market.)
For me the good thing about OneNote is that the full-text search actually works. Really, I'm not kidding. I have no trouble finding things in OneNote and that is worth a lot.
For some reason everybody wants to write a new notetaking application, but the problem is the proliferation of applications. One team is into Slack, another uses Discord, so I have about 10 electron apps that are all almost exactly the same size.
The answer is something that can go into all of these spaces and make things findable first, and portable second.
Nobody seems to want to do it, but everybody seems to want to learn Electron.
To be honest, I am way too invested already to not finish this thing, despite whatever response I get from posts like this. Sometimes I do get curious though. A surprising number of people I've asked in person simply are not interested in saving things from the internet. I guess if all you are into is watching Snapchat and Instagram all day, why would you?
This makes me think I need to tap into the larger business-type market and has me looking into what it would take to implement a permissions system for teams/multi-user editing of notes/etc.
> I am way too invested already to not finish this thing
No such thing. That's the sunk cost fallacy. But you probably already know that and are expressing your joy in the project instead of literal investment.
Failing faster and more often is a good strategy. There's a great Freakonomics podcast titled "Failure Is Your Friend" with a bit more context and justification.
Would love a mix between workflowy and Google keep. Ideally, a web app with mobile clients that has an open source server side that you can either pay to have hosted or run yourself :)))
I'm making Keepshelf.com (not available at time of this writing), a side-project I've been off-and-on with for awhile now but I'll be launching this year.
Keepshelf is the note keeping/organizing app I've always wanted. Take notes with ease and copy/move into folders through a fast and convenient UI, instantly synced and accessible on all devises.
dang, i feel like i could read you talking about the state of programming all day. so, can i ask, what is your current language/framework of choice and what would you recommend to someone in my position (just starting out, interest mainly in working on personal project that could eventually become saas products and only interested in web application development)? do you have any words of wisdom on python?
i think it boils down to how explicit python is. it is so immediately clear to me what is going on and where things are coming from and what they are doing that when i look at ruby/rails code it looks like a big empty void that is producing something fantastic and all i can thing is "...wtf?". i really really want to know how to speak in magic but i'm not sure my brain is equipped to process it.
