- A debate over the health impact of grains unfolded, with jrayhawk arguing that prolamines damage enterocytes even with enzymatic digestion, that grains are nutrient-poor and ecologically harmful, and that fermentation or sprouting only marginally mitigates these issues.  
- Gut flora were briefly considered as a way to pre-digest gluten, but jrayhawk noted that bacteria are normally absent from the small intestine and would not prevent enterocyte damage.  
- Practical “lazy cooking” solutions were shared: jrayhawk uses a 3-gallon pot to simmer a week’s worth of food, while kanzure half-seriously proposed a “giant blender” approach—both aimed at low-carb, low-effort meal prep.  
- kanzure posted the open-source CubeSpawn 3-axis CubeMill design (GitHub: CubeSpawn/3-Axis-CubeMill) as an example of accessible desktop manufacturing hardware.  
- The Sydney biohacking group’s naming brainstorm produced tongue-in-cheek candidates such as “Sydney BioHack: Making the world glow one organism at a time,” “Bondi Beachbio,” and “Kangaroo Boxing and Biohacking Club,” highlighting the community’s irreverent culture.  
- NanoEngineer-1’s web assets went offline; kanzure temporarily mirrored files on GitHub and issued a call for help recovering lost images (issue #4).  
- A passer-by (sseehh_) praised the stalled SKDB packaging-spec project but offered no concrete contributions, underscoring ongoing difficulty in attracting sustained developer engagement.