Side-Projects

Everything up to here was built from imagination: what I thought logging a workout should feel like. Then I trained with it for real, phone in hand, chalk on fingers, rest timer running, and the roadmap got humbled. This part is about the highest-signal planning input the project ever had: actual use. The friction list After the first real gym sessions I dumped every annoyance into a list. Nine items, all of them things no amount of desk-testing had surfaced, because they only exist under gym conditions: tired, hurried, one-thumbed. The highlights: ...

This is a different kind of post for this blog. Less BGP, more JavaScript. I built and shipped a real app, RepRepo, a workout tracker, essentially over one weekend, working with an AI coding agent (Claude Code, in my case, though most of this translates to any of them). Not a todo list demo either. It has a plans system, PR detection with unit tests, multi-user auth, security hardening, nightly backups, and tagged releases deployed by CI, and it is running on the public internet where I actually use it at the gym. ...