READ: Temporary Development Pause
Hey all, sorry for the radio silence lately. I've had to temporarily shelve Pinchflat as I've been working on a new project that has the potential to make a real-world change that I feel very strongly about. I'm working on a system to combat recent legislation in the UK/US around age and identity verification required to access certain websites. I believe this legislation goes against the concept of a fair and open internet, is a privacy nightmare, and imposes an unacceptable cost on many business owners. Obviously I can't change the laws or encourage people to break them, but I think I have something that'll keep private data in the control of the user. I can't say much more at the moment. What I can say is that it's been consuming all of my evenings and weekends for _months_ as this is something I really believe in. I should've posted an update sooner but it was one of those things that I thought would be a quick digression that ended up snowballing. It kept being something where I earnestly thought "I'll be able to start back up in a week or two" and, well, it's turning out to be hard problem to solve. I wish I had the foresight initially to know how much of a commitment this new project would be but I suppose we're past that. For now I'll call it a learning experience. **What does this mean practically?** Pinchflat isn't dead! But it is on a development break. I love this project and I have every intention to pick it back up when I can, but that won't be for at le
Posted by kieraneglin on Sep 26, 2025, 7:49 PM
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Living in a 200+ year old house, I've seen a lot of this first-hand through both planned and unplanned renovations and repairs.
Is anything with the pebble time able to capture heart rate for historical data analysis?
Datastar has evolved into a suite of tools [1].
> real issue is that MSG is basically a public utility.
Everything good is a slippery slope: every step in the right direction is bad if you overshoot.
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READ: Temporary Development Pause
Hey all, sorry for the radio silence lately. I've had to temporarily shelve Pinchflat as I've been working on a new project that has the potential to make a real-world change that I feel very strongly about. I'm working on a system to combat recent legislation in the UK/US around age and identity verification required to access certain websites. I believe this legislation goes against the concept of a fair and open internet, is a privacy nightmare, and imposes an unacceptable cost on many business owners. Obviously I can't change the laws or encourage people to break them, but I think I have something that'll keep private data in the control of the user. I can't say much more at the moment. What I can say is that it's been consuming all of my evenings and weekends for _months_ as this is something I really believe in. I should've posted an update sooner but it was one of those things that I thought would be a quick digression that ended up snowballing. It kept being something where I earnestly thought "I'll be able to start back up in a week or two" and, well, it's turning out to be hard problem to solve. I wish I had the foresight initially to know how much of a commitment this new project would be but I suppose we're past that. For now I'll call it a learning experience. **What does this mean practically?** Pinchflat isn't dead! But it is on a development break. I love this project and I have every intention to pick it back up when I can, but that won't be for at le
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