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@rathes.me

Web engineer interested in 🗣️ languages 🏋🏾 fitness 📚 reading 👨🏾‍🍳 cooking. https://rathes.me/links

I need to get rid of my Polar Loop again as it's been quite disappointing. So I am looking at alternatives: Strongest contenders: 1. Apple Watch Ultra 2. Fitbit Air 3. Garmin Centriq Anything else I should look out for? (For someone who used to use Whoop and the Oura ring doesn't work for me)

Yesterday, my WhatsApp account got restricted pending a review because I messaged two new numbers back to back (I am moving and had to text my new landlord and property managers) The whole day without WhatsApp made me realize how much I depend on it for so much of every day communication

I'm currently looking at vacuum and mop robots and am super impressed with how far they got since the last time I owned one which was the Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum (by Roborock) Does anyone here own one and if so, which one and do you recommend?

A little thing that I did recently that helped me quite a lot: I don’t curate what I’m gonna listen anymore. Instead, I just put on Apple Music Radio and just listen to whatever comes. Just a little that that I don’t need to “orchestrate” but it helps and I hope I can add up onto it

Always sad if you submit something to the Apple App Store and it gets rejected by some automation just because of another keyword in your app description. Now I have to go through a lengthy process to get the app through review 😅

I’m this 🤏🏾 close to spin up my own little game for the World Cup 2026. A bit more interesting that just guessing the scores but still simple enough that players would be motivated enough to play through 104 matches

With AI enabling non-engineers to write code and contribute to the product, what is the future of local dev environments? I don't want to send a designer or customer advocate pages of instructions to set up all the things. Are CDEs the answer? Is there anything new? Curious to hear your thoughts!