Cutting the cord: islet runs without Nightscout

For eight days, islet has been the primary ingestion path. Tonight it became the only one. Nightscout polling is off. Both phones POST directly to a Raspberry Pi in the next room, and the system does not care. That sounds undramatic because it should be. The entire point of the last eight days was to make this moment boring. The dependency that was hard to see Nightscout was never just a database. It was the implicit trust boundary for every data flow in the system. Sensor readings went from phone to Nightscout to islet. Treatments went the same path. Every piece of data arrived through someone else’s API, on someone else’s schedule. ...

February 23, 2026 · 4 min · Christopher Griffiths