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Articles tagged with #privacy

Stop Putting Health Data in the Cloud by Default
How I built a local first pain tracker around failure safety, user ownership, and the reality of chronic illness.
May 12, 20265 min read31
Understanding Collapse: A Comprehensive Guide
Discovering the Reality of Creating from Survival and How It Can Help Others
Feb 8, 20263 min read2
Shipping, Observability, and Incident Handling
When something goes wrong in a health tool, the user can lose trust and momentum. Your job is to fix problems without turning the app into surveillance. Shipping a health-adjacent tool is different from shipping a hobby app. Reliability is part of ca...
Feb 6, 20262 min read5
Why PainTracker Is Open Source: Transparency as a Trust Mechanism
Open source as a trust mechanism Privacy claims are only as trustworthy as their verifiability. When a health app says "your data is encrypted" or "we never share your information," you are trusting a marketing statement. When the app is open source,...
Feb 6, 20263 min read1
Accessibility in Pain Tracking: Inclusive Design for Chronic Pain
Why accessibility is a health equity issue People who most need pain tracking tools are disproportionately likely to have accessibility needs. Chronic pain conditions frequently co-occur with mobility impairments, visual difficulties, cognitive fog, ...
Feb 6, 20263 min read1
Health Data Threat Model: What Risks Does Your Pain Diary Face?
Why threat modelling matters for health data A threat model identifies who might want access to your data, how they might get it, and what protections are in place. For health data—especially chronic pain records that may affect employment, insurance...
Feb 6, 20263 min read1