Nick

Nutrition science blogger.
Creator of the nutriDex.
Certified djentleman.
Debate bro.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@effectfully This is appearing less and less like the dunk you think it is every day.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@0xmishoko With my setup, all my repos are on a self-hosted Forgejo instance and automatically backed up over Restic to Backblaze. If Claude ran this command on me, it would only inconvenience me for 10 mins. Gotta frontload good opsec practices before letting Claude take the wheel, bro.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@igoreckert https://t.co/rHrF5H42hU

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

I'm so fucking sick of being broke. I don't care how conceited or entitled this sounds, but there's no good fucking reason I should be working ~12–16hr/d, 6-7d/wk, for an entire fucking year, on something this valuable and still have tattered clothes, shoes falling apart, an empty fridge, no money for transportation, medications I can't refill, no money for basic business equipment, etc.

I pour my heart and soul, day after day, into something users and testers constantly tell me makes their lives better and easier. I sell it for PEANUTS, undercutting the competition by 60–80%, because I'm not greedy and don't ask for much. I love doing it, but I can't stock my fridge on vibes.

I've been in my overdraft since summer, my credit card's been maxed for nearly a year, and I'm starting to consider parting with sentimental belongings (like my late grandmother's guitar) just to keep productivity afloat. I'm just fucking broke, all the fucking time, and can't afford basic dignity.

I can utterly promise you all that what I'm building would fundamentally change personal health tracking and shatter existing paradigms in that domain overnight if it reached full-scale release (which it's 100% poised to do if money wasn't an issue). Making that promise while also being unable to afford food or medications shakes me to my fucking core with revulsion at the state of our system and how it manages and rewards talent.

I just straight up deserve better, particularly from the government. They should be supporting high-volume, high-value, and highly productive people like me, but they're utterly fucking it up. They'd straight up toss me overboard and let me go homeless before properly helping me. As far as I'm concerned, they're the only ones truly failing me here.

The above sentiment is partly what makes posts like this so hard to write; it's nobody else's problem. My only hope is that good people who believe in me and my vision for this project are kind enough to make it their problem and help me. I just want the constant financial suffering to fucking end already, and I'm so sick of finances blocking my progress at every turn.

If you can help, I'd appreciate it:
https://t.co/a2b4jbCMps
https://t.co/Z5sDPhZ953

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@PsiloCybinnnnnn Sure, that's part of it. But, technically it's not even really released yet. The mobile app absolutely annihilates what's available in the web app. When the mobile app hits, it's basically going to deprecate all other trackers in an instant.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@arny_dm @grok Why would you expect statistically significant differences in all cause mortality between groups over 70 with such long-term followup? There was a fucking 13% mortality rate overall. People were dropping like flies of any cause.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@Nmethyltransfer There is one that she was working on for a long time that will probably be in one of her IG stories or something.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

My gf discovered Bart Kay and has been unleashing a slopocalypse upon him all evening, hahaha. 💀

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@Nmethyltransfer The OP is the slop, lmfao.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

Fuuuuuuuck, lmfao. 🤣

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

Just nature being beautiful again! 🙄

I do believe there is an optimal way in which a given animal can live its life. Good luck trying to convince anyone with a functioning brain that this is it. 🤷‍♂️

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

Same thing basically happens in Canada, so far as I can tell. Survey data paints the opposite picture when hypothetical floor-crossing is being discussed, but in practice, NDPs and Liberals seem to be more resistant to floor-crossing from the PCs. It's like their game is some sort of retrospective conformity/purity testing. And, of course as a floor-crosser, that is never a game you're going to win if you've held different views in the past. Seems like a dumb strategy for growth and retention, yeah.

[Thomas Dayspring @Drlipid]

FINALLY - THE CASE IS CLOSED - embarrassment that this faulty study was ever published but now is buried where it belongs, in the dust bin of medical nonsense @nationallipid @foundationofnla @society_eas @ASPCardio @escardio @atherosociety @TheEndoSociety @FamilyHeartFdn @fhpatienteurope #cholesterol

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@denebos With half as many features and twice as many bugs as something properly generated by Claude.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

Hate to break it to the guys at Finamp, but in 2026 this is just straight up no longer a flex. With strict enough conformity docs and better language choices, the app could have been produced (probably with far fewer bugs) in closer to four weeks with Opus or Fable. 🤷‍♂️

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@_unicornsonlsd_ If it's a labour of love, then it's fine. I can't relate, but it's fine. But if you're gonna try to flex productivity, don't expect anyone serious to take you seriously in 2026 if you're not using AI.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@VeganBaecon I didn't ask you if it was hard to measure. I asked you if you had any empirics to support the proposition that GPS use decreased net critical thinking.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

Human peer review will soon be straight up irresponsible and will probably eventually be relegated to a mere formality, if performed at all in the end.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@Babayeer I think journals should basically be replaced with git-style repositories with open research questions constantly being updated through merge requests, issues, etc. Make it completely open and transparent, and if a maintainer ever goes full retard, just fork it and do it better.

[Nick @upRootNutrition]

@VeganBaecon So, just to be clear, it's all vibes and no empirics? Deeply, deeply ironic if true.