#computer geek

funnytwittertweets:

julian-is-vibing-here-deactivat:

anyone know any good apps for keeping track specifically of food and symptoms? i wanna see if i can figure out some trigger foods (beyond the obvious stuff like hamburgers and smoothies that’ll send me into a flareup within like five minutes of eating them)

Personally I haven’t found an app that I really like but since I’m a total geek when it comes to data and computing, I love spreadsheets and databases for organizing and tracking things. Airtable in particular is excellent because it’s user friendly and is pretty to look at (mobile app or just airtable.com)

Plus organizing your data in this manner makes for endless possibilities.

As an example, right now I can only eat pureed food so this is a table I’m using to keep track of ingredients my stomach can tolerate to make smoothies:

https://airtable.com/shrH3T1bjZvWTm4Bd

You can export it as a pdf or csv for sharing, or you can use it to make easy to fill out forms! Example:

https://airtable.com/shr2P5KrBN5snrB8i

Hopefully you or someone else can love using this as much as I do

It’s called… being resourceful

jessicameats:

kaiasky:

Firefox being fast/secure/supporting new web standards isn’t enough. we need to make extremely useful websites that don’t work on chrome.

No, this won’t work. If they don’t work on chrome, chrome users won’t find out that they’re useful.

You have to make an extremely useful website that works on chrome but then have it stop working and instead display a message saying “It looks like you’re trying to use a bad/insecure/non-standard web browser - try switching to firefox” with a download link where the really useful content used to be

solarpunkfuturenow:

Computer Powered by Colony of Blue-Green Algae For 6 Months

Algae Powered a Computer for More Than Six Months

Word on the street is Windows 11 will run android apps natively so… I’m backing up my Windows 10 laptop and giving it a go. Stay tuned.

As someone forced to retrofit various programs left broken by previous devs…. I appreciate seeing my life illustrated in this way

carpisuns:

sariahsue:

@sketchy-panda​

nomadicism:

commodorecliche:

new-bitch-who-dis:

Heres your reminder to use literally anything but chrome

And here’s your reminder that Firefox actively works to protect your privacy and prevent tracking.

Firefox also has “Facebook fence” which is used to contain Facebook into isolated tabs that prevent tracking as you browse, since so many sites have social media plugins/ads that help collect data for Facebook and other apps.

You can tell Firefox to fence in Facebook in the browser preferences. Also a good time to change your search engine to DuckDuckGo and leave Google search behind (or only use it with another browser that’s separate from daily use).

The EFF (OP of the tweet) has various types of privacy tools that they’ve created. Some are browser plugins. I recommend going to their site to learn more about internet privacy and advocacy (and donating a few bucks if you can spare it). https://www.eff.org/pages/tools

Tools from EFF’s Tech Team