Been making a real habit of riding the bike more this year, outside when I can and on the Peloton when I can’t. HealthKit works well as a central source of truth but really doesn’t make it easy to answer a question in any form other than a bar/line graph.

Kellan had the same problem and put together some Swift that I was able to fork to add a few other time ranges I cared about. Apparently, I cycled about 88 miles last year. So far in 2024, I’m sneaking up on 300 miles. Gonna see if I can break 1,000 before year’s end.

Wow, I sure do not know iOS development! I’m not the biggest “AI-all-the-things!” booster, but I will admit it’s occasionally handy for “I know what I want, and I know how I’d ask for it in three other languages, just not Swift.” Put another way: if and only if you have sufficient context to understand when the response is just completely wrong, it be can a helpful way to get unstuck.

Every month, Amazon Web Services, a division of a company with a market cap of just shy of $2,000,000,000,000.00, sends me a bill for $0.02^[1]. Presumably I’ve left something rotting in an S3 bucket for a decade and forgotten about it. I get the email, and I think “Hmm, I should figure out what that is,” but the time it takes my brain to formulate that is already worth more than two cents of my sweet precious life.

Compare that to Fly.io, where I host a few Remix projects, which sends me this email once a month:

We don’t collect bills smaller than $5.00. This month, your bill falls below that threshold, so we’re discounting it by 100%.

Small improvement corner: posts have always had a location associated with them, but it wasn’t exposed anywhere. Now it is. It’s basically always gonna say “Chicago”, but there are a few treats sprinkled in some earlier weeknotes.