How I keep myself alive using Golang • Hacker News Board

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by kreek » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 12:34 AM UTC

princevegeta89 wrote: post #8

not-my-account wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go is probably your choice, it was stupid fast to pick up. It’s a fun language too

Is there a good batteries-included framework for Go, like Ruby on Rails or Django?

While not quite as batteries-included as Rails, Fiber made the most sense to my Ruby/Rack brain.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by tonymet » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 12:38 AM UTC

I love this post. there's a lot of potential for a personal monitoring platform like this. great work and keep staying alive

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by bluesounddirect » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 12:41 AM UTC

Sorry 1/2 into the article all that kept popping into my head is someone tell this man about a cgm like a dexcom . It all of this out of the box . My wife has been a t1d for 30 years the dexcom cgm makes all of this a lot better

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by wferrell » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 12:43 AM UTC

zy0n911 wrote: post #20

Incidentally, I created something related to this yesterday. A tmux plugin to display your glucose data as a status icon in your terminal. As a T1 myself, I use a Dexcom as my CGM and have it working around that specifically, but I'd love to open it up to other devices too, and offer more. Feel free to check it out! https://github.com/Cian911/tmux-xdrip

Wow. This is really impressive. thanks for sharing.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by hk1337 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 12:45 AM UTC

I could be mistaken but I believe both types of diabetes has no cure; however type 2 is MUCH MORE manageable with a proper diet?

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by ShakataGaNai » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 12:48 AM UTC

bluesounddirect wrote: post #23

Sorry 1/2 into the article all that kept popping into my head is someone tell this man about a cgm like a dexcom . It all of this out of the box . My wife has been a t1d for 30 years the dexcom cgm makes all of this a lot better

He has that. The problem is not the CGM, it's everything around that (and the fact that both Freestyle Libre, and Dexcom, don't readily expose the data for the DIY types to do anything with).

While the Dexcom is "better" (than Freestyle Libre) in my opinion because the recent revision can talk directly to your phone continuously (the Libre only sends alerts, getting data requires you tapping phone to arm)... your insurance may cover only one or other. Either is way way better than nothing, but both are still a long way from automation.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by mholt » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 1:00 AM UTC

A family friend of ours just had a child -- 6 years old -- diagnosed with diabetes, and has to wear one of these monitors, with that same app and everything.

Neat idea.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by renatolb » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 1:10 AM UTC

hk1337 wrote: post #25

I could be mistaken but I believe both types of diabetes has no cure; however type 2 is MUCH MORE manageable with a proper diet?

There's no cure, but 'remission' is possible in type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes. Remission is defined as maintaining normal blood sugar levels without medication. This is not possible in type 1 diabetes

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by natdempk » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 1:20 AM UTC

ShakataGaNai wrote: post #26

bluesounddirect wrote: post #23

Sorry 1/2 into the article all that kept popping into my head is someone tell this man about a cgm like a dexcom . It all of this out of the box . My wife has been a t1d for 30 years the dexcom cgm makes all of this a lot better

He has that. The problem is not the CGM, it's everything around that (and the fact that both Freestyle Libre, and Dexcom, don't readily expose the data for the DIY types to do anything with). While the Dexcom is "better" (than Freestyle Libre) in my opinion because the recent revision can talk directly to your phone continuously (the Libre only sends alerts, getting data requires you tapping phone to arm)... your ins…

Not sure exactly what you mean by "getting data" but recent versions of both Libre and Dexcom have apps where you can view graphs of data on your phone with no tapping step.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by yndoendo » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 1:24 AM UTC

chewxy wrote: post #3

I talked to Matt about not owning our own data after GopherConSG where he gave this talk. It was enlightening how complicated the issue is - there's a lot of legal liabilities on the end of the data provider (the company that monitors the glucose) so I can understand why larger corps are a bit hesitant to open up. On the other hand, it seems quite heinous that users don't have access to data that is rightfully theirs…

I never understood this. Would this be like buying a BIC pen and they have a required license agreement where any entropy made with the pen is owned not by the creator of the data but by the creator of the tool used? With out the person the data would not exists.