The reddit post where I first discovered BodyState. For a year or so this remained a really useful and focused app that did what I needed. As of November 2025 it's been sold to a company who are starting to ruin it already.

Such a shame.

There's folk I know who seem to thnk they're experts on how the immune system works, and who offer terrible unsolicited advice any time someone has a cold, or the flu, or whatever. It almost always relates to crap based off their own health-freak bias founded in ignorance.

This should be a good article to start with to tackle such bollocks.

It's such a common trope that if you take vitamins, you'll be far less likely to catch colds, etc. Far too many folk seem ready to hand out this advice, but never cite their sources for this "fact".

I wonder why...

Reasonable-looking prescription inserts for the PSVR2. While I have inserts for my Quest 2 (and they're amazing), I've not used this company before. The plus side is they're based in the UK.

Going to give them a try and see what they're like.

Having finally switched to using pure-Apple-ecosystem for sleep tracking, I was curious why I wasn't getting any sort of "time in bed" value recorded (as opposed to time asleep). The previous (iOS-based) tracking app did it just fine.

Turns out it used to be an option that was set on the phone, and iOS 18 seems to have taken it away, but still reports it (as nothing recorded).

Weird.

Mindfulness can be a useful tool, and is rightly suggested as a tool in the toolbox of good mental health. But like all tools it can have its problems if not used correctly.

To quote form the start of the article:

"Mindfulness is thought to have multiple benefits – but it can also make you less likely to feel guilty about wrongdoing and derail your moral compass."