I've been trying to lose weight and become healthier for several years. In that time, health tech has taken off with a barrage of gadgets and services that promise they can help you eat right, work out better, and get unprecedented insights into your body's functions....
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Eight Days on the Eight Sleep Pod
It’s a fancy mattress that can cool itself down, wake you up gently, and see how you breathe. Neat. This is what it’s like.
Taking a look at Hey
Hey! There’s a hot new up-and-comer to the stagnant, atrophied email space! I follow the creators of Basecamp - David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried - on Twitter, and a few months ago I saw they were launching an email service in the summer. I had been using Gmail...
Connecting a portable washing machine to a shower head
If you’ve ever lived in a third floor walkup with ice-covered stairs in the long chicago winter, this might be for you.
Help prevent Google Docs phishing with one filter
TL;DR Don't click links in email messages, especially not requests to share a Drive file What’s the phishing risk of Docs? If you use Google Docs and Gmail, you may have seen an email like this before:This is a very dangerous email for a few reasons: You only see the...
Building an employee performance tracking app with AppMaker
AppMaker is being deprecated. For an alternative, try AppSheet or Glide. Summary Google’s App Maker is a new tool to rapidly and easily build apps on Google’s App Script platform. It provides an easy way to design web-based UIs, with many built-in components like...
Automatic, flexible, and mobile finance tracking with Tiller and Glide
Managing transactions on mobile Tiller is a service that syncs all of your financial data to a Google sheet, and it comes with several great templates to organize your finances.You’ll get an overview of your accounts and transactions, and can add additional templates...