Diabetes

The hardest part of carbohydrate counting is not the maths. It is the data. Supermarket food has labels. Restaurant food has menus with calorie counts. But the pasty from the bakery on your high street — the one you have been buying for years — has nothing. You guess. You are always wrong. The problem islet has a food template system. When you log a meal, it checks the description against a library of known foods and returns an instant carbohydrate estimate without needing an AI call. The library covers packaged foods with published nutritional data — Tunnock’s Caramel Wafers, Penguin bars, sliced bread by brand and thickness. ...

For the first two weeks, islet was a parasite. It polled Nightscout every sixty seconds, pulled down whatever was new, and stored it in SQLite. Nightscout did the hard work of receiving data from CGM apps. islet just copied it. That dependency was always temporary. Why Nightscout had to go Nightscout is a good project. It solved CGM data sharing when nobody else would. But as a dependency inside islet, it created three problems: ...