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Building My Own Running Coach
Back in March, I wrote about Pacer, a small tool I built so I could stop sending screenshots to ChatGPT every time I wanted to review my training. Shortly afterward came nico://run, a site where I started publishing my runs, some stats, and…
readMy Cheap Chinese Scale Now Talks to Garmin
A while ago, I bought one of those cheap Chinese smart scales that work with an app called OKOK. The scale itself works perfectly fine, but the app is unbearable. Every time I wanted to weigh myself, I had to sit through an ad that…
readOne command to back up the whole homelab
For quite a while, creating a complete backup of my homelab meant following several separate procedures. There are hosts, virtual machines, containers and a few services that require their own specific steps. In some cases a standby instance needs to be synchronized first. In others,…
readWhen a Tool Stops Being Experimental
A few weeks ago a concrete problem showed up at work: we had to publish and take down a banner in dozens of markets, at a specific time, inside Drupal. Doing it manually was possible. It was also exactly the kind of task that makes…
readTiny thing of the day
Go for a walk, then publish.