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Today's PillsWhen the pill list gets long, missed and doubled doses get more likely. A practical way to organise the day, what to ask your pharmacist, and how to make reminders work.
LongitudeKeep the time in every city you care about one glance away. Step-by-step setups for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy, and how many clocks fit in each.
Ember FastingWhere to put a fasting timer so you see it without opening an app: a setup for the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and StandBy, step by step.
A general AI assistant is the right place to start. Here is how to spot the moment it stops being enough, and what a custom tool fixes and does not.
Ten questions that tell you whether to buy a tool, adapt one, or build your own, and the warning signs on each side.
Every week brings another AI tool that promises to change your business. Here is a plain way to sort the few that would pay for themselves from the many that would not.
Real price ranges for a custom app, a website rebuild and ongoing support in Sarasota County, what moves the number, and how to get an estimate you can hold someone to.
Today's PillsDo Not Disturb and Sleep Focus can silence the reminder that matters most. Here is how to let your medication reminders through, and what Focus can and cannot override.
Ember FastingThe four most common intermittent fasting schedules, what each asks of your day, and a sensible way to choose and move between them.
LongitudeEurope and the US change their clocks on different weekends, so for a week or more every gap between them is an hour off. The 2026 and 2027 dates, and how to keep recurring meetings straight.
Ember FastingNot because we are confident. Because a guarantee is what you offer when the underlying transaction has a trust problem, and we would rather not have one.
Ember FastingThe full fasting timer, all five protocols, all six zones. Free, forever, with no trial. Here is the line we drew and why.
Ember FastingThe cellular cleanup story is real. The 36 hour number is mostly extrapolated from mice. Both of those things are true at once.
Real ranges, what moves them, and the four things that make a build cost double what you were quoted.
Ember FastingZero Plus is $69.99 a year. Ember is $14.99, or $29.99 once. An honest look at what the difference buys, and who should stay with Zero.
Today's PillsForgetting is not carelessness. It is a predictable failure of cue and context, and the fixes are boring and effective.
Ember FastingThe metabolic switch is the thing most casual fasters quit before reaching. Here is what your body is actually doing, and what the research does and does not say about when.
Ember FastingThe first meal matters more than the fast itself. Lead with protein and fat, give it half an hour, then eat normally.
Ember FastingThe wrist is the right surface for a fasting timer, and most apps waste it. A design argument, written before we shipped ours.
Ember FastingStreaks that break on a single missed day train the wrong response to imperfection. The research says what you do on day two matters more than whether day one was perfect.
LongitudeTime zone arithmetic is genuinely hard, and being confident about it is how meetings get missed. A few rules that remove the guessing.
Businesses are on a perpetual quest for effective solutions to optimize their operations and boost productivity. At Alchemy Apps, leveraging no-code platforms to address such needs is our forte.
The relationship between project managers, developers, and clients is akin to a delicate dance. When all parties move in harmony, the result is a seamless and efficient app build process.
When T.REX ARMS set out to build the Range Day app, they quickly realized the road ahead would be challenging. They began with a large agency but soon discovered their project wasn’t getting the focus it needed. On top of that, the platform they were using couldn’t deliver on one of the most critical features: offline capability.
Explore the key trends shaping no-code development in 2025, from AI integration to enterprise adoption.
