Self-Hosting

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. ...

I run my own email server. On a Raspberry Pi. In my house. It sends and receives real email. People reply to it. It has not lost a message. I would not recommend it to most people. The approach The fundamental problem with self-hosting email is that the internet assumes you are a spammer until proven otherwise. Residential IP addresses have no reputation. ISPs block the ports you need. Even with every DNS record configured perfectly, the big providers will silently drop your messages for weeks until they decide you are probably legitimate. ...