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🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W27

2025-07-06 17:20

Activity Stats

🏃 Run [3] 2:42:59 - 26.0km - 896m
💪 Strength [2] 0:39:40
🤸 Pilates [1] 0:22:39
🧘 Yoga [1] 0:21:41

🏁 Total: 7 activities - 4:07:01 - 26.0km - 896m

Oh hey ho, do you like the new activity stats? Pretty proud of that one. It pulls everything straight off my activities database, which gets updated every time I plug in my Garmin watch to the laptop. No more copying and pasting from runalyze.com (or Strava, or Garmin Connect). Yeah, that's my jam these last few weeks. Taking ownership. Self-hosting and stuff. I think Prozak summed up the Why? question well:

First and foremost, it’s fun. Being your own service administrator can be a rewarding hobby, while also providing hands-on experience for those interested in computer systems. It’s a tech hobby with two major benefits: knowledge and practical use.

I do apologise to all my friends stuck in the miles and feet world. Converting meters to KM's, seconds to H:M:S, UTC to Pacific/Auckland and whatnot is quite the effort, and I can't justify the headaches to go further with the miles and feet conversion. I'm sure you'll be fine without.

What else?

🗓️ It's a new month. That means I flip the page on the calendar I made. This is the current photo, taken 10th July 2024 with the caption Gets cold around here:

Maybe on the 10th I'll go down and grab a photo from the same spot. I have been taking "comparison photos" at a number of set locations for a while now, but I don't know how to manage them. They are just scattered in with my other photos which makes them hard to find. Maybe I could find them with a geolocation metadata script or something. I don't know how good that'd work though. I'll figure something out later.

It's also Plastic Free July this month. I've decided this year I will cook or make something once a week that replaces something I would have bought with plastic packaging otherwise. This week I made hummus. It's not my greatest effort, I just winged it based off memory of a recipe a while back.

🖌️ I'm very touched to see my What's in my pocket Friday post resulted in a couple of Re: posts by some of my online buddies. I purposely left out any description of why the hell I had all these things accumulate in my pocket, to leave it to the imagination of the reader, and what struck me was how it triggered for Steve and Parker some macro-level associations with the concepts of knolling and phenotypic variation. They both caught me by surprise and I thoroughly enjoyed reading up on those topics.

🩸 Health - I went to the docs on Friday to see about my arms/hands falling asleep at night causing pins and needles and/or sore arms. They didn't really diagnose anything, but put me on anti-inflammatories for a couple weeks to see if it aids recovery of potentially just a bit of over-use from my newish physical job. We'll see...

I think I've passed a milestone with my knee. My running is becoming more and more pain free, and with that my running mojo is returning. I've had some mates check in with me, wondering why I've dissapeared off Strava, which is half because I don't want to flood feeds with all my daily exercises which I'm logging on my watch, half because I was getting depressed with fomo every time I went into the app, and the third half is because I'm trying to remove myself from it. We'll see if I actually ever do. I've said before that I've made a few good mates from Strava, and I use it as another (not sole) resource to plan some of my bigger missions.

💻 Speaking of, my activity tracker is coming along slowly. Apart from the stats at the top, I'm also playing with the design of activity-logs. Also also I've fixed some timezone issues so the start_time column is always in NZ time. That may not actually be the best way, given I could be doing activities overseas at some point. I'll re-visit that when that happens so I've got current data to work with.

I've been improving some of my self-hosted tools setups I did last week:

💻 Tools

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