Adam Elston
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Reflux patterns don’t reveal themselves overnight
There’s a gap between what people think is causing their reflux and what’s actually causing it. The obvious suspects — coffee, alcohol, spicy food — often turn out to be fine. It’s usually something a bit more overlooked. The problem is that memory is selective. Everyone remembers the dramatic episodes. The patterns that explain them…
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The writers group
We met weekly, in the Tavistock Hotel. Dark, winter evenings after work. Exhausted, always, as I left my workstation and made my way through the cold streets; yet another day spent dealing with endless complaints. But approaching the hotel, seeing the yellow windows of the bar lit up in the night, a feeling of anticipation,…
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Velorific: why I built it, what I’ve done so far, and where it’s going
Velorific started from a simple need: most nutrition tracking tools are either too generic, too fiddly (I always really struggled to log food on the well known apps), or too detached from the reality of training. If you care about performance, “how much did I eat?” is only part of the picture. What also matters…
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Building Reflux Radar
How I built an iOS app to track acid reflux triggers using AI meal parsing and pH colour-coding — and what I learned along the way.
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Haunted house
The house accommodates the man, holds his life. And, in the empty rooms, memories, like dust, lie all around. There is time to be happy, the house knows. The house was once happy. Potted plants shone greenly in the slant of the afternoon sun. There was laughter and the echo of laughter and then silence.…
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Nothing happens, but everything changes
In the stillness there are faint clicks, creaks. The house awakes. Outside, a first bird sings. He makes his breakfast, the usual routine. He could do it with his eyes closed. And soon the cold air warms to the aroma of his coffee brewing on the stove. The smell gives colour to the room, density…
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Things I love #2: Leatherman Wave
My brother gave this to me. I don’t think he intended to, like it wasn’t planned as a present or anything – he had it on him when he visited us in London, he showed it to me – I held it, looked at it, told him I liked it – and he gave it…
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Things I love #1: Stove top coffee pot
It’s a coffee pot. Some people call it a moka pot but I find that confusing as I always think of mocha, the drink? I call it a stove top pot. A couple of years ago I bought a Sage barista pro. The coffee pot ended up in the back of the cupboard but last…
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