The Fourth Design
I rebuilt the fitness tracker website using everything I have learned about design over the last several months. It is very fast, highly accessible and full of content on exercise, nutrition and anatomy. My design skills have come far and I am growing to really enjoy design.
On tooling
This article takes a quick look at some of the tools being used to build Fitness Tracker and goes over why I chose to use each of them.
Fun generating content
I've been working on getting Fitness Tracker release ready which has meant going through a lot of structured data and trying to turn it into something that people can read and build fitness routines with. This has involved generating text suitable for both websites and in app consumption and rather than use generative AI, I decided to roll my own model with python. Results are okay so far, but quickly improving.
Fitness Tracker
Automatic tracking with things like watches, phones and other devies may work for some people but not for me. And so in December, I started turning a tool that I've been using into a desktop application. It started off in Electron but now it's all Rust and React. Here's a quick update.