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I wore a glucose monitor through the levels health program for a couple of months. I’m not diabetic, just curious. They present the idea of eating your protein and fat before carbs in a meal as a “challenge” to see how it’s different from eating the same meal with the carbs first. It’s not the most scientific result, but multiple times I ate 10 chicken wings then ate an order of French fries after the wings with zero increase in my blood glucose levels.

Taking a shot of apple cider vinegar also helped blunt the glucose spike. Alcohol also blunts a glucose spike. Basically just distract your liver and you won’t get a massive spike in blood glucose levels.

Dr Peter Attia did a podcast with Dr Sinclair not too lon ago where they discuss this:

https://peterattiamd.com/davidsinclair/

The show notes on the episodes are always really good, and you can almost read them without listening to the episode.

I have a bad habit of buying video games that I will probably never get around to playing, and I used to keep a list of those games in a spreadsheet in the order I wanted to play them. I decided to build https://www.grouvee.com to keep track of that list instead of the spreadsheet. Apparently there are quite a few other people that have this same issue!

DO is more comparable to AWS than GoDaddy.

Essentially a VPS provider is someone who rents you a server instance on a much larger server running other instances of other people's servers. You are in complete control of your server instance. You have to manage all the application installations, firewalls, security, etc.

A GoDaddy or Bluehost is someone who gives you folder space on a server. They have the web server, database, and any other application all setup for you already. Typically those types of providers only allow you to serve static content, or certain scripting languages (mostly PHP).

It depends what stack you wrote your web apps with for which provider you should go with. With a VPS, Linode is going to be cheaper than Digital Ocean, which in turn is cheaper than AWS when you compare specs to specs. If you're app is a simple PHP app that talks to a database, you could probably host it way cheaper on GoDaddy or Bluehost. You just wouldn't have very much control over all the different versions of the DB/PHP, etc. that you might want.

The SASS port might be the thing that gets me to upgrade from 2.3 to 3 finally.

I get the data from Giant Bomb, so we've got tons of retro games. There's 94 pages of Commodore 64 games right here: http://www.grouvee.com/games/?platform=commodore-64

I've built a site that's like Goodreads but for video games (http://www.grouvee.com). It lets users catalog, rate, and share their video game collections. I'm on it every day almost because I play a lot of video games, and I love looking through people's reviews and collections.

I hate reading articles like this because it's trying to tell you that CrossFit culture is all about pushing yourself until you've practically killed yourself doing all sorts of crazy and whacky weight lifting. 99% of the time, the problem isn't CrossFit, it's the coaches. If you're at a good gym (or box as it's called), the coaches know how to scale workouts for the athletes so they won't get hurt, and they're programming workouts so that people aren't killing themselves constantly.

Where CrossFit is to blame is its low barrier to entry to becoming a coach/affiliate owner. All you need is a weekend of your time, $1000, a passing score on a super simple test, and you get to call yourself an "L1 CrossFit Trainer." They don't advise you to immediately go start training people, but there are plenty of boxes that will let you jump in and start coaching classes. It's gotten so popular now that there are bad affiliates popping up out there that have horrible programming that hurt people, and then articles like this get written, and then everyone thinks that's all CrossFit is.

When you take the L1 CrossFit Trainer course, they have a whole section about "Uncle Rhabdo." It's a very rare thing that occurs when you do a whole lot of isometric exercises (like strict pull ups where you come down real slow) when you're not used to them. It's not a rabid thing that is 100% going to happen if you do CrossFit.

Thanks!

I was just thinking the other day that it'd be cool to be able to scan games in. I think my data source has UPC data in it, but I don't think it's very well filled out.

There's a pretty good core of active users. Definitely not all of them. About 1 in 10 becomes a regular, with about 2 - 3% checking the site almost daily. Around 20 - 25% use the site once a month. No idea if these numbers are any good, but they're getting better every month.

When I initially started the site, I did some reddit advertising, and while I got a decent number of sign ups, most were one and done accounts. Organic exposure has definitely been way better than paid advertising for me.

I'm trying to figure out how to monetize it. Affiliate links seem like the best option currently, but they're not doing much for me yet. Eventually I'd love to let publishers and developers promote their games on the site, but I don't feel like it's large enough yet.

Very cool idea, I put my project up here: https://breakpoint.io/101-grouvee/

I feel like any "diet" that is named is instantly called a fad, and that really bothers me. Paleo is more or less eating whole, unprocessed foods, with an emphasis on low sugar intake. What's so faddish about that?

My site is currently down because of this.

Thanks for the kind words!

I can't decide what to do about the name. I kind of named it on a whim one day, and it just sort of stuck. I also own greatgam.es, and can't decide if I should use that instead. There's really no significance to the Grouvee name.

I agree that it's a pretty looking app, but I think there's quite a few Couch to 5K apps that already exist out there.

I've always wondered this. Most of the time, the readers of a blog about passive income are people that want to make passive income, and likely have their own blog about how they also make passive income. It's like a snake eating its own tail.

I'd sell my house and a kidney before I got rid of my dogs.

Good luck man. I'm going through almost exactly the same thing. I am also 28, built up a big "runway" of savings, and my last day at work is next Friday. Hope your ideas work out for you!

Did facebook launch with groups out of the box? I remember them being there fairly on, but I don't think they were there when I first joined. I could be wrong though.

Plus, Telltale just announced the revival of the King's Quest series. It doesn't get a whole lot more adventure than that.

Satcking is not a Telltale game. It's made by Double Fine, the people who made Psychonauts. Double Fine is run by Tim Schaefer, who helped create many classic adventure games like Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, etc.

The whole thing is ridiculous, but I want to point out something else the editor said that bugged me and seemed unnecessary: "...in order to use a site approximately as useful to the world as Yahoo! Answers."

Do people really think it's that bad? I really like Quora for the most part and think it's way more useful than Yahoo! Answers.

I like how he so emphatically says that it is wrong, and cites style guides that say it's OK to use 2 spaces.

From the HLA source he cited (http://www.mla.org/style_faq3): "... As a practical matter, however, there is nothing wrong with using two spaces after concluding punctuation marks unless an instructor or editor requests that you do otherwise."