This website has included a little personal API in the footer for quite a while. But in recent-(ish) months I’ve expanded a bit on it, as you can see in the screenshot above. It now also makes an informed guess on whether I’m likely doing okay on a given day or whether I might be under the weather – for example because of falling sick, having slept poorly or other factors.
Having recently moved from Paris to London, it was time to get a new nametag for our dog Ohana – as the old one still displayed Eugenia’s old, French phone number. This wasn’t great as many folks don’t have phone contracts that allow calling abroad (thanks Brexit?). Ohana’s old name tag was custom-made with a laser cutter – for both cutting the shape and adding her name and the phone number.
Analyzing yourself
At the 2022 European Heritage Days
Visiting Leitz-Park on a recent trip to Germany
Exploring a planned city at the French seaside
tl;dr: Differences in my heart rate depending on the applications I use are small With France being back in a second lockdown (though the rules are a bit less strict this time around), I thought it would be interesting to look at the impact of different habits a bit more.
tl;dr: You can turn your Puck.js into a one-button tracker with this open source website I made Open Humans community member James Littlejohn highlighted the Espruino family of open source hardware boards and devices during one of our community calls some weeks ago.
Download PDF of the slides directly. Yesterday I presented what I learned from all of my passive data collection as a Show & Tell at the first European online Quantified Self meet-up. I already showed some of my insights here on the blog, but I added some more data analyses for the presentation, including my movement patterns from the GPS data and details on phone usage.
The COVID-19 confinement in Paris and France at large lasted from March 17th to May 11th, with comparatively strict measures on when you could leave your house, where you could go and for how long & when you could be outside. As a result a lot of folks, including me were forced to drastically change their daily routines, shifting to a home office approach.
People gather in front of the US embassy for a BLM demonstration in June 2020