Researcher here who gets VERY excited when people email for paper access!
Also, authors can usually post author copies to their own sites (even if journal site is paywalled!).
I do - you’ll find links to all mine via DIYPS.org/research
But you can also always email 🥰
Screenshot of PERT Pilot in the iOS App Store. It’s on the what’s new section highlighting the new recipe builder feature in the latest version, released tonight.
PERT Pilot (iOS) update!
It, too, now has the recipe builder feature and you can now send - or receive! - meals and recipes from either PERT Pilot and Carb Pilot. 🎉
PERT Pilot is designed for tracking pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy, for those of us with EPI (PEI).
….coming shortly will be interoperability between PERT Pilot and Carb Pilot (on iOS)!
This means you can share a recipe or meal between users, whether PERT Pilot to Carb Pilot, or between two Carb Pilot users (even if you track different things!).
Just pushed a new version of Carb Pilot 🎉 with a new feature: a recipe builder (which gives you the ability to adjust your estimates by each ingredient, plus designate portion sizes).
Would love feedback if you try it out!
(And share any other feature requests).
Plus… 👇🏼
BookPilot for those who want to use it to find other books by authors they have already read (or listened to):
github.com/danamlewis/B...
BookPilot for those who want to use it to find other books by authors they have already read (or listened to):
github.com/danamlewis/B...
Sharing some of how I use LLMs - which ones, how that has changed over time, and about a remote prompting tool I put together:
diyps.org/2026/02/17/w...
Soon was relative, but: github.com/danamlewis/BookPilot
(Would love feedback, PRs, etc if anyone tries it out!)
Meta-thoughts about software-shaped feelings after solving for last week’s software-shaped feeling:
diyps.org/2026/02/09/s...
I’m guessing habit?
Example screenshots from BaselinePilot which pulls in relevant data like heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, and wrist temp (or any combination of those that you have) out of HealthKit and also calculates how far off your baseline it is so you have a more proactive view toward meaningful changes. You can also share it with a partner (and hide/remove that anytime you don’t want to see someone else’s if you choose to sync their data when it’s shared with you).
Along those lines, here’s another @scottleibrand.bsky.social & I have been using, BaselinePilot, which provides a (much) quicker and reliable way to glance at key vital biometric data (HR, HRV, RR, etc) + shows variability from *your* baseline (based on SD).
Details: diyps.org/2026/01/22/b...
Trying to increase my cycle of doing/building and sharing it out, even if it’s not “done” or perfect to my standards.
Not every custom software I like needs to be used by someone else, but it’s worth sharing in case there is a(nother) need for it.
It might spur other ideas or others to build, too!
Awesome! Post here describing the current functionality and original use case I was solving for. I’ll get it up into GitHub soon!
bsky.app/profile/dana...
(Based on a few comments yesterday it sounds like there is interest from others so I plan to open source it so other folks can pick it up and tweak it to suit their use cases, too!)
The intersection between “what should I read next?” and being someone who reads a lot means it would be nice to have something to recommend new books that takes into account what I have already read.
…and now I have that! I called it “BookPilot”: diyps.org/2026/01/18/b...
Awesome! I’m writing a post about it and will share that shortly - if it sounds like something you’d grab and use I’ll open source it! Would love for other folks to benefit 🙌🏻 and tweak to suit their setups
(Agree generally that LLMs are great recommenders across ideas, authors, genres! Gets obnoxious though to filter out “I already ready 6/10 of those”, though, which is why I started pulling in the already read list!)
I built a tool to pull in Libby (library) book data & check for books I haven’t read by authors I have read > spot new books in series / new by authors I already know I like. Plan to add additional recommendation features for new authors, too. Nice if you have source of “already read” data!
A lot of these say something similar, eg the first visit is digital and “unsupervised”. This isn’t novel to AI or even the last 10 years. This is a 20+ years old experience.
The thing that has slightly changed is scale (more ppl) due to improvements in accessibility and awareness due to tech.
‘Tis the season…don’t forget you can consider situational masking, even if you don’t choose to mask in everyday life / lower risk situations.
Planes, trains, shared automobiles, conferences and conference rooms… 👇🏼 here’s some data for informed choices:
diyps.org/2023/06/07/a...
Obviously outdated references. Ex: claiming no/little evidence on topic Z, 2014 citation for that…but a quick search reveals a lot of new studies in last decade. (Sometimes an artifact of having published before those studies were done but authors aren’t updating their knowledge base & it shows).
‘Tis the season…don’t forget you can consider situational masking, even if you don’t choose to mask in everyday life / lower risk situations.
Planes, trains, shared automobiles, conferences and conference rooms… 👇🏼 here’s some data for informed choices:
diyps.org/2023/06/07/a...
3. If you haven't got a #flu shot yet, now's the time. You may have heard that there's likely a mismatch this year — the #H3N2 virus mutated after the vaccine strains were picked. More on that in a bit. But that's not a reason to skip getting a shot this year. www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/f...
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
Waiting for the day someone presents this type of stat juxtaposed against how often healthcare providers give misdirected or mistargeted information.
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If we want preprints to really catalyze faster, more open science, then leading infrastructure needs to reduce this friction. Authors should know when feedback exists — otherwise we’re shouting into the void.
If the smoke in the air is bothering you:
Reminder that an n95 mask can help (and you can wear one outside to reduce exposure).
For inside, if you don’t have an air purifier, a furnace filter taped onto a box fan can help clean your indoor air.
Given the current wildfire growth across the PNW and the forecast winds over the next week, we could see a situation where smoke becomes persistent across much of the PNW by next week. Time to get those air filters / N95s / etc if you haven't already.
