My mother is a dietitian and she started a podcast this year where she’s talked a lot about the microbiota and how it affects our organisms in a lot of different ways.
For instance, did you know that bacteria in our guts help us “digest” and expel heavy metals?
In the third part of the episodes about the microbiota[0] she talks about the gut-brain axis:
> l’intestino può comunicare al cervello uno stato di disagio o disbiosi procurando, oltre al gonfiore, anche un possibile stato d’ansia o abbassamento dell’umore
that translates more or less to:
> the gut can communicate with the brain a dysbiotic state causing, in addition to swelling, a state of anxiety
The podcast is in Italian, but the transcriptions can be easily translated in English.
I built an app for a family member, who is a nutritionist, that makes it easier for her to stay connected with her patients via WhatsApp. It keeps track of appointments and sends automatic reminders.
Lately I decided to jump on the ChatGPT bandwagon and added a feature that integrates with the OpenAI API to suggest replies to messages from her patients.
It was overall a fun project. It gave me the chance to explore the integration with WhatsApp Business API (used to communicate with patients), OpenAI API (used to suggest message replies), Discord (used to notify events).
Apart from the APIs, it has zero dependencies. It’s deployed as a static website hosted on GitHub. The backend is written as a set of AWS Lambda functions. Data is stored in DynamoDB. Frontend is vanilla JS.
If you want to stay focused and track your time I built Tomatoes[0]. It's a pomodoro technique timer and a time tracker. It's web based, it's completely free and open source[1]. I built it when I started freelancing and I was in need of both a tool that would have helped me to be productive and to track time that I spent on clients projects.
Definitely Matteo Centenaro[0] and Andrea Dal Ponte[1] for their incredible contributions to Tomatoes[2], and our supporters[3] who boosted our morale and made the project sustainable.
It's times like these that I wish MS hadn't axed "Active Desktop" from their newer oses.
Back then you could make an html file with one frame or iframe and point it to a website like this or embed a flash stream.
You could just embed this website and have random webcams as background and your icons and everything else would still work normally on top of your new "background".
Eventually the embedded IE would crash and you'd press F5 and it would fix itself.
For instance, did you know that bacteria in our guts help us “digest” and expel heavy metals?
In the third part of the episodes about the microbiota[0] she talks about the gut-brain axis:
> l’intestino può comunicare al cervello uno stato di disagio o disbiosi procurando, oltre al gonfiore, anche un possibile stato d’ansia o abbassamento dell’umore
that translates more or less to:
> the gut can communicate with the brain a dysbiotic state causing, in addition to swelling, a state of anxiety
The podcast is in Italian, but the transcriptions can be easily translated in English.
[0] https://dietista.it/2023/03/29/e-la-pancia-non-c-e-piu-terza...