I've built Caloree an iOS/Mac app that allows you to track your daily calorie intake, go on a calorie deficit diet and track your weight which has worked wonders for me. It's freemium, but most features are available for free. It can be found at https://caloree.app.
The company Stefan founded is just 5km (around 3 miles) away from where I live. I have friends who either worked or still work there. I also met a bunch of the folks at InnoQ over the years and they are a great team.
Whenever people or his employees talked about Stefan it was always in a positive way. He must have been a great guy. RIP Stefan and my condolences to the family!
I was just about to comment about my dear of bumping into a grizzly bear while hiking there, but apparently “only” black bears live on Vancouver Island. That would still keep me away and I always wonder if I’m just way too cautious or if the likelihood of running into a bear is so low that it’s worth it?
Makes sense, happy to report that this will make it into the next version amongst some other things that didn't make it into the MVP. Thanks a lot for your feedback!
As for the food db: I use Open Food Facts which is great, but can be messy and sometimes wrong as it's mostly crowdsourced. I combine that data with data from US Food Data Central, which is an awesome resource.
You will see open food facts data as unverified in the app whilst food data central will appear as verified. Hope that makes sense.
I am in the process of adding major US restaurant chains as I recently found another great dataset with more than 30000 entries. So McDonalds, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, etc also coming.
Completely off-topic, but I was an avid IH user before I somehow lost my password.
For some strange reason resetting the password doesn‘t work for me. It tells me it‘s going to sene a mail with instructions in a few minutes and then nothing ever arrives…
Hi quickthrower2, thanks for the feedback. Glad you like it and apologies for the late reply. I somehow totally missed that there were comments in this thread. I got a lot of feedback on producthunt and apparently that was enough to distract me.
It should have definitely asked for height and sex, I just tried it and it "works on my iPhone". Perhaps you had to scroll down and that wasn't obvious? Good feedback though, I'll see what I can do there!
As for the calculation: the child comment is right (see below), it's a BMR calculation. However, I think I should change it to a TDEE based as that takes daily movement into account. That should make it more realistic. Any thoughts?
This is definitely not one of these balloons. Check out the discontinued Google Loon project to see a closer representation of what the world was looking at.
I have used weather balloons like the one you linked and I can assure you that these will burst after only a few hours in the air.
I recently got interested in installing a TTN gateway in my home and adding some temperature sensors.
Having played with LoRa years ago my thought was that there should now be readily available and cheap sensors. But to my disappointment everything seems to be a bit pricey which really surprised me. I can get a Zigbee temp sensor for around 15 euros, but Lora sensors cost around double that. I am wondering as to why that is?
I have a genuine question which I have been wondering about for sole time:
Is there anything positive to this “one nation can veto everything” rule? It feels like this is really blocking a lot of progress in the EU where some of the right-spectrum nations can simply block anything or bargain from.
Why do we have this rule and is it hard to get rid of it?