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Re:I put my whole life into a single database on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:30AM (#47376009)
Yes, I developed Health Hub https://biomarkeroptimizers.com/tools/health-hub/ to visualize and analyze my blood work, food, exercise, and sensor data from various sources, thinking it can be also useful for others.
Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:32AM (#21906737)
"Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting" by Noël Janis-Norton was the most helpful parenting book for me. Includes the main principle to replace punishment with descriptive praise and teaches lots of other methods to improve relationships with your children.

Ask HN: Would you mind being monitored at work?

I look for a remote software developer position and a potential employer say they require to install special software to track working hours and automatically take periodic screen shots. Logically, they have the right to do it and I'm fine with live pair programming, but emotionally such close monitoring is repulsive to me.Normally, when I code, I google a lot (for documentation, samples and...

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Have you already read these books?
Re:Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity? on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:36PM (#17517900)
Given a large codebase I was not familiar with, I wrote https://vlasovstudio.com/runtime-flow/ tool. It shows and records executed code in real-time just as you interact with an application. (Works only for .NET Windows programs.)
For C# and LINQ in Excel there is my ESharper add-in https://vlasovstudio.com/esharper/