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erikrothoff commented on Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox genomicpress.kglmeridian.... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

ycombinete · 3 months ago

That’s cool. I’d like to quit again sometime but right now caffeine staves off migraines for me. And with a baby in the house I really don’t have the resources for that battle.

erikrothoff · 3 months ago

My gf has a migraine head and she’s tried going decaf but it just doesn’t work. Apparently caffeine does a lot to reduce the risk of migraines? So I’d probably just try to lower the dose until you find what works for you.

erikrothoff commented on Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox genomicpress.kglmeridian.... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

idkwhatiamdoing · 3 months ago

This hits home. For me stopping coffee (and caffeine) consumption was also one building block of taking care of my generalised anxiety disorder. I enjoyed the morning ritual, but it stopped with quitting drinking coffee. Maybe I should give decaf a shot, but I also miss just grabbing a coffee when out with friends (usually tea does not scratch the same itch and is not worth it when everyone else around you is enjoying a great smelling coffee). All I want to say is “Thanks for sharing” I guess. I was able to connect with what you said.

erikrothoff · 3 months ago

I went to the US recently and was fully prepared to drink caffeine on the trip because of all the cool coffee shops and roasters. But I was amazed that decaf was basically a first-class citizen there. The hotel breakfast had one giant brewer for regular and the same giant brewer for decaf. It was amazing.

And it’s pretty important to realize that well-made decaf doesn’t have to taste worse than regular coffee. James Hoffmanns decaf project proved this for me, and his video about decaf sold me on the idea: decaf drinkers are the OG coffee drinker, drinking it purely for the taste, even without the drug-induced high that caffeine gives you.

https://youtu.be/yYTSdlOdkn0?si=V0xKFGCZR1-YgGmO

erikrothoff commented on Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox genomicpress.kglmeridian.... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

ycombinete · 3 months ago

Is it the addictive substance or the ritual I created around it?

I used to think this same thing, that my enjoyment of coffee was largely the ritual. But then I switched to decaf for quite a long time and all my little rituals fell away quite quickly.

I still occasionally drank coffee when I felt like the taste, but I certainly wasn’t performing daily morning ritual.

erikrothoff · 3 months ago

I’ve switched to decaf full time and a my generalised anxiety basically went away. I love coffee and still drink it ritualistically. I probably drink more coffee now, at all hours of the day (caffeinated coffee after 12 really messed my sleep).

Also once per week I allow myself an espresso, and I get a nice buzz from it that lasts the entire day.

erikrothoff commented on Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud sverigesradio.se/artikel/... · Posted by u/Frieren

erikrothoff · 3 months ago

My (swedish) grandfather keeps falling for these Meta scams. Scrolling through his feed is insane and disgusting. So many ads that mimick OS alerts saying storage is low, insane amounts of AI crap and fake products. I 100% agree with this. Try scrolling through your grandparents’ Instagram or Facebook and see for yourself. It’s obviously _very_ easy for Meta to filter out these scams, but they choose not to.

erikrothoff commented on Show HN: MyTimers.app offline-first PWA with no build step and zero dependencies mytimers.app/... · Posted by u/y3k

erikrothoff · 4 months ago

Pet peave: don’t have a massive button for dark mode, just listen for the OS setting.

erikrothoff commented on Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos fuckupmysite.com/?url=htt... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

ActorNightly · 6 months ago

http://www.websiteasteroids.com/

erikrothoff · 6 months ago

Oh wow someone hosted my code on a separate domain? Weird!

erikrothoff commented on yacine: I got fired today. I'm not sure why twitter.com/yacineMTB/sta... · Posted by u/tosh

pabna · 9 months ago

this guy was my hero. is something very wrong in the world?

erikrothoff · 9 months ago

Just reading about this person, why's he your hero?

erikrothoff commented on A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift forums.swift.org/t/pitch-... · Posted by u/LucidLynx

elpakal · a year ago

> current Swift tools are barely keeping it together for the “happy path” of building for Apple devices (it’s not that happy)

I agree, but I'm telling myself this is only a temporary pain caused by the changes for supporting Swift 6 language mode. Are you talking about something else?

erikrothoff · a year ago

Is this still a thing in Swift? I loved Swift 1, spent a couple of days upgrading to Swift 2, a week or more for Swift 3. At that point I just switched to React Native. I understand that iterating is generally a good thing, but the constant cykle breaking changes in the language was just too much.

erikrothoff commented on The Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds nytimes.com/2025/02/14/sc... · Posted by u/wallflower

collingreen · a year ago

I won't even open this now knowing their onboarding is made by someone with zero thought about user experience

erikrothoff · a year ago

I don’t remember the onboarding (ironically :) but once you get in the UX is really nice and perfect for what it does. Maybe it won’t win Apple design awards, but I’m just here for the content.

erikrothoff commented on The Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds nytimes.com/2025/02/14/sc... · Posted by u/wallflower

erikrothoff · a year ago

This app does a terrific job of teaching memory palaces. Ironically it’s made by the guy in the background of the article image. https://memoryos.com/