Tag: quantified self

  • Castamatic and Boosts

    Castamatic and Boosts

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently I have been Lunix Unplugged and Self-Hosted. It’s by listening to self-hosted that I decided to experiment and learn about Linux by experimenting with Pis and projects created for Pi such as PhotoPrismPi, Pi-Hole and Nextcloud, to mention just a few. These podcasts kept mentioning boosts, sats, value for value…

  • Cough Radar

    Cough Radar

    Reading Time: 2 minutes This morning, for the first time in months I used Sleepcycle manually to mark the start and end of my sleep and I noticed that they added the Cough Radar. This is a quick and easy way of seeing whether there is a lot of coughin in the region where you…

  • Playing with the Xiaomi Band 7

    Playing with the Xiaomi Band 7

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I have had the Xiaomi Band 7 for a while but I didn’t wear it properly until the start of the new year. As a silly concept I thought that I would try to wear it for the entire year and so far I have kept to that resolution. Sometimes it’s…

  • The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE

    The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Since boyhood I have liked watches. There was a period when I wore none, but eventually I got the habit back and now I regularly wear two watches. I don’t wear two watches because I like to wear two watches. I wear two watches because Apple sends to one database and…

  • The Curious Step Miscount Due to Walking Sticks

    The Curious Step Miscount Due to Walking Sticks

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I walked with hiking sticks and whereas one watch told me that I had 13,000 steps, or so, the other said I had 9000. It is the second time that I notice such a difference in step count.  Walking stick step count. The count is lower than without walking sticks…

  • Life Cycle by Northcube AB

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Life Cycle by NorthCube AB is a life tracking application available on iphone. It allows you to keep track of your sports activities, time spent at work, sleeping, shopping, socialising and more. At first it knows nothing about it. It learns of your home location, your work location, where you go…