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neoglow commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
neoglow · a month ago
I am currently working on a breastfeeding tracker for Garmin devices. It is already released a time ago, but I want to include a companion app for this app.

I used it with my first child, and it helped me greatly. After releasing the support has been amazing and I recently passed 1000 downloads :)

I am hoping to extend the functionality with more insights and helpful tips (double-checked with professionals) to help young parents with the beauty of breastfeeding their newborn children.

neoglow commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in   ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
neoglow · 5 months ago
Don't underestimate the will of young children to do what is 'forbidden'. Especially when in puberty, they will find ways.

They are humans as well and can therefore think ;)

neoglow commented on Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?    · Posted by u/seltzerboys
neoglow · a year ago
Stand up at around 6:15, no snoozing the alarm. Get a glass of water and some yoghurt, cereals, fruit or bread, at least something light and not too heavy because after that I run around 30 minutes with my dog. This is my exercise and the dog needed to walk anyway. I do this 5 times a week.

After that drink a cup of coffee, and another glass of water, after which I first go to work at around 7:30, where I start with reviews, testing changes, and get through email. Standup is at 9:15, when I get another cup of coffee. The rest of the day is just cruising along; coding some stuff, fixing bugs, having some meetings etc... Usual SWE stuff.

Having started early, I can finish early, which gives me time for cooking, which I find very important. Because I already had my exercise in the morning, evenings are for me, my family and friends.

Weekends are similar, except I wake whenever I naturally awake, so my body and mind can recover where necessary, Although most of the time I still am awake at around 7:00.

This routine works very well for me. I try to keep low on alcohol and caffeine, of which the first one is going very well, but the second one a little less since I had a child a few months ago. Oh well...

neoglow commented on Show HN: Breastfeed tracker app for Garmin smartwatches   github.com/rvoortman/brea... · Posted by u/neoglow
neoglow · a year ago
Author here. I made a simple small app for my wife to track breastfeedings and bottles on her Garmin smartwatch.

I deliberately made it simple without fluff. You have a baby in your hand while feeding, so the app needs to get out of the way :)

Happy to answer questions!

neoglow commented on 2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)   aviewfromthecyclepath.com... · Posted by u/gmays
heretoo · 3 years ago
Not comparing, but is it really safe? https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/09/cycling-injuries-three...

50,000 serious injuries in one year seems considerable.

neoglow · 3 years ago
A Dutch satire program had an item on this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflYjsaC19g). A lot of these injuries is with the elderly and the teenagers. It is suggested that this due to the rise of e bikes, which go faster.

A helmet should be required for ebikes.

neoglow commented on Hacker Typer   hackertyper.net/... · Posted by u/behnamoh
memorable · 3 years ago
This brings back so much memories, when you pretend to hack to the mainframe...
neoglow · 3 years ago
Or program a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address.
neoglow commented on The world needs a non-profit search engine   daoudclarke.net/search%20... · Posted by u/daoudc
rvz · 3 years ago
Who's going to finally tell them who DDG really relies on?
neoglow · 3 years ago
I get your point, but the fact remains that the interface is miles ahead of Google, just by not having all the garbage.

The results are fine for me in day to day usage and I find that Google will not provide me with better results if I cant find it on DDG.

Would it be better if they had their own indexer? Maybe...

neoglow commented on System Preferences Reimagined on macOS   basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/tosh
mulmen · 4 years ago
Messages basically doesn’t work anymore. I had to disable Time Machine because of the thrash of indexing itself. The UI makes no sense anymore. They removed established shortcuts for… no reason? There’s some kind of pseudo-touch style going on. Like they plan to add a touch screen but didn’t. The iOS-ification continues.

MacOS is a clear second class citizen at Apple. Each of the least three releases has been worse than the one before. I hoped it was the last gasp of Ive but it’s apparently intentional. Or maybe nobody is in charge, which would make more sense.

At this point Linux looks like a better option.

neoglow · 4 years ago
What's even more frustrating was the removal of 32-bit apps in Catalina and the continued deprecation of OpenGL. So many functional apps where the developers have lost interest are now non-functional. Not to even start on the irritating, vista-like security prompts for apps that are not signed (which in development is a lot...).

MacOS has become less and less pleasant to use in that last 3 to 5 years for me as a developer, because of this. Which is such a shame, because the new Macbook Pro's are really amazing machines, hardware-wise. Great keyboard, Magsafe, no Touchbar, amazing screen and great battery life.

I will be requesting a Linux (or Windows.. whatever) laptop at work if this one dies.

neoglow commented on Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)   ignaciochiazzo.medium.com... · Posted by u/exemel_hn
drbojingle · 4 years ago
You could ask for a count of records and divide by the page size.
neoglow · 4 years ago
Counts become incredibly slow on some databases like Postgres. It needs to do a sequential scan, which results in slow(er) performance on even a ten- thousands of rows. When operating at scale, this is very, very slow.

u/neoglow

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