Manuel Frigerio

This year’s Secret Santa knows me very well

Burning the boats

BlueSky’s starter packs show that the best features aren’t always the most complex—they’re the ones that solve big user problems with simplicity and elegance.

Black Friday email sent. Wish me luck.

What’s more accurate to estimate my daily total caloric expenditure: a DEXA scan of my Apple Watch?

I have the latter and a did the former recently but the numbers are wildly different.

My Apple Watch gives me a total daily caloric expenditure of ~3,000kcal/day.

The DEXA scan 2.6k at best.

Financial forecasting is tarot card reading for professionals :)

I honestly don't think I can go back to a browser with horizontal tabs ever again...

let's be honest...

it is kinda funny this website's nickname is BS

Now I’m jealous

Another way to phrase it is: if our bodies could tolerate, without side effects, elevated levels of these peptides it would ALREADY produce them in high quantities given the benefits on insulin level, etc.

This is what people on GLP-1 drugs don’t get: mimicking natural peptides means side effects—our bodies aren’t built for sustained artificial levels.

It really is true: find the perfect life partner and everything else will be 1,000% easier

That’s so annoying :P

Our infrastructure processes ~3B background jobs (that's 1K/second!) and ~600M web requests per month with 99.99% uptime in the last 6 months.

This would have not been possible without @bilal.dev

does the generally more pessimistic attitude ever bother you?

just setting up my bsky

I don't know but back in the days it was "sprints" of 1-5 days on a single project to get to the next milestone (a new feature, a marketing campaign, etc)