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I really enjoyed this episode of the Syntax podcast. It’s a very good review of the current state of AI coding tools. Very grounded and practical.

I recently discovered the Open VSX Registry (the open-source extension marketplace used by editors like Cursor), and I wanted to share something that might help fellow developers living with Type 1 diabetes.

I’ve now registered all three of my glucose monitoring extensions there:

• Dexcom CGM Status Bar – for Dexcom users
• LibreLinkUp Status Bar – for FreeStyle Libre / LibreLinkUp users
• Nightscout Status Bar – for Nightscout users

If you’re using Cursor IDE, you can now install them directly from Open VSX and monitor your glucose levels right in your status bar while coding.

As a T1D developer myself, I built these because context switching (phone → CGM app → back to IDE) was breaking my flow. If you are or know any software engineers living with diabetes, this tool might be helpful with diabetes management.

This is completely free and open source.

All download links are available at: https://glucoseincode.com/

CloudFlare is acquiring Astro web framework. I’ve built several personal projects using Astro and all deployed on CloudFlare. I guess that’s a common pattern 😛 Both products mesh together nicely so this makes sense. Hope CloudFlare keeps improving Astro.

This is kinda insane. Valve makes more per employee than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft. Gaming industry has had its troubles this year with layoffs at Activision, Microsoft, EA, and others. And Valve is here making $50 million per employee with average salary per employee of more than $1.3 million.

AWS quietly released Regional NAT Gateway. This seems like a pretty nice improvement for configuring and managing multiple NAT gateways across AZs for high availability. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have any benefits in terms of pricing/cost ☹️