Both Garmin and Polar make chest strap heart-rate monitors. Garmin's product looks expensive, but you only ever need to buy one: it'll fail within the warranty period and they'll replace it for free. Polar's are modular, and I haven't had
I think William Gibson is best known for the Sprawl trilogy, and specifically Neuromancer. Amazingly he has written other books: the Blue Ant/Bigende trilogy, and the Jackpot series, among others. Pattern Recognition - there will be spoilers in general - follows Case Pollard, a woman who has an allergy
I have a couple of other posts on the EVAD-1, tl;dr is that the software is incredible, but the early hardware I had was... challenged. Four years on, how's it going? Problems 1. Swipe sensor doesn't always want to swipe. 2. No way to turn
Sennheiser released their Momentum Sport headphones in 2024-04, an interesting partnership between Polar (they who invented the chest-worn ECG) and an audio company. Historically, the ear has been an excellent point to measure both temperature and heart rate from, so logically these headphones should have been able to readily replace
Since the Fēnix 3, Garmin's watches have been the most fully-featured tracking devices available. This isn't to say the most accurate, but, the ability to collect data from almost any sensor, and write it to a file, was unsurpassed. Logically, with all this information, and their
Or Intentional Skills to Climbing Improvement After too-long a hiatus, I resumed climbing last year. I was incredibly lucky to meet an amazing climber at a Queer Crush meet-up in Oakland, and we've been climbing as our nomadic schedules allow. We both value intention in climbing, and I&
After owning a second-hand Cannondale Topstone for ~500km, I decided that the bike was cursed and sold the frame and fork. Wanting something to hold the components together, I got chatting to someone on the SF Bay Ferry who suggested I look at Squid bikes. Located in Sac, they'
In 2023, I was lucky enough to spend three months in Seville (Sevilla), in Andalucia in southern Spain. I took my bike with me, a steel Squid Gravtron, to explore the local (and less local) areas. (Power-scroll to the bottom for the Komoot routes and GPX tracks.) After finding online
Since flying my first quadcopter, a Mavic Pro, I've evolved the sequence of events that between landing and having photos to share. It's the most efficient it's been, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. 1. Connect external volume (a SanDisk 2TB
As I optimise for six months of digital nomadism, I’ve been reviewing a lot of my possessions: what to keep, what to sell, what to donate. Some of this is easy as obvious large swathes of possessions can clearly be released into the material continuum, and some less so.
A 14-day comparison of Garmin’s and Ōura’s HRV values.
For years, I've been manually copying files from microSD cards to external storage volumes after each flight. Today I had enough, and wrote myself a bash script to move files into a directory scheme I like. It's modular, and has some error handling. GitHub - zestuart/