Fat
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I'm fat. About a year ago, I made a little website about my data and such. My friend Brian Minor inspired me. My thought was if I publicly track data, it will keep me motivated.
I redid my little site last night to have a graph. Right now it just pulls in my weight from the Fitbit Aria scale and shows a simple graph. There is a rake task that runs every 10 minutes and stores the data as a JSON string in Redis. The rest is a simple Sinatra app that just sends the JSON straight to JavaScript. The graph is made using Chart.js.
When I have more time (lol) I want to make this pretty and show more data. Fitbit collects a ton of really sweet data. Making a custom dashboard thing sounds like fun.
Everlapse
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Today, my co-workers at Seesaw and I launched a little side project called Everlapse. It's a fun app for sharing life, frame by frame.
Video is beautiful but tough. Photos are easy but boring. Everlapse is something new in between.
Setting Up Open Source and Live Coding — Part 2
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Part 2 of this SAMGradientView tutorial covers how to make a good open source library. I cover writing a good readme, writing documentation, testing, and publishing a pod to CocoaPods. Check out Part 1 if you missed it before.
Setting Up Open Source and Live Coding — Part 1
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This is a play-by-play screencast of me moving a component out of SSToolkit into its own library. I cover setting up a good open source component, writing Core Graphics drawing code, a bit of low-level C stuff, and some of my workflow.
You can find the code so far for this on GitHub: github.com/soffes/SAMGradientView. We’ll be adding a lot more in part 2.
Sleep Schedule
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I'm really bad at sleep. There are so many more things I'd rather be doing. There was the one Bond villain that only had to sleep for 15 minutes a day or something. I want that.
I generally go to bed around 2am or 3am. Since I work from home, I wake up around 8:30 and starting in bed right away. I spend an enormous amount of time working in bed instead of at my desk. On most days, I don't get out of bed until 11 or 12. It's pretty great.
After my Seesaw work is doing around 6:30ish, I hang out with family and such. Around 10 or 11 I'll start working on whatever side project I feel like that evening. Lately, it's been Roon.