Daily Archives: June 20, 2026

How Wearables Track the Menstrual Cycle: The Sensors, the Algorithms, and the Accuracy Gap

Your Garmin shows poor recovery, WHOOP paints your day red, your resting heart rate is high, your HRV is low, and the app recommends that you rest. But here’s the thing: you don’t actually feel bad. For women who are in their reproductive years, chances are your wearable technology has misread your luteal phase symptoms […]

How to Handle Small Context Window Limits in RAG Systems

Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, is a pattern where an application retrieves relevant source material and adds it to a model prompt so the model can answer from that context. A larger context window in a RAG system shouldn’t be treated as a substitute for good context management, although it can make the experience more forgiving […]

How to Avoid Overusing useCallback and useMemo in React

If you’ve spent enough time in the React ecosystem, you’ll have likely seen codebases where nearly every function is wrapped with useCallback and the computed value is wrapped with useMemo. The reason behind this is “memoization equals better performance”. But most of the time, this doesn’t really translate to better performance, and it often produces […]