Tinkering With Code (Again!)

I love my bycicle and I cherish the time I can spend riding it.

The mental health benefits of riding bycicles have been studied by folks much more inteligent than me (ahem, ahem, ahem, just to point to three ahem-examples), so I won’t get there today, but I want to say that the joy I get from being outside, feeling the wind in my face is out of this world.

I ride for fun, I ride for the health benefits, but I do not ride to compete with anyone (not even with myself). But I am a nerd, so I still like to track my rides, and my metrics, and all the numbers (the cool stuff!)

So imagine when I learnt about the Eddington number. It just doesn’t get much nerdier than this.

There is an iOS app that tracks the Eddington number (HealthFit) but it does not give much more visibility on the actual number or on how far you might be from increasing that number.

So I built this for my own, personal use.

I haven’t actually tinkered with code in a couple of years, and it was fun to tell the machine what to do again.

I don’t think I’ll iterate beyond what is shown in this screenshot, so this is something that will probably never see the public light, but, even though it’s ugly, it’s mine, it serves a purpose, and I built it, so it makes me happy.