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Tape measurements, stored in centimetres
Body data grew from weight and waist to a full tape measure, neck to calf. Everything is stored in centimetres and converted only at display, the same rule as kilograms and metres.
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PostmortemsVerify after propagation, not after push
A redirect was reported broken seconds after pushing. It simply was not live yet. How we check deploys now.
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DesignStrength: a kinder number beside the streak
Every habit has a weekly streak and a strength score. The first version of strength was a rolling daily average that punished the start of every week. It's now a slow average over weeks.
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ProductSixty-eight habits to start from, and an empty list
PaceStreak ships a catalogue of 68 ready-made habits across health, learning, mind, people, focus, money, home and creative. The habit list itself still starts empty, on purpose.
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Security & PrivacyHabits that nobody else ever sees
PaceStreak added habits, including ones people are trying to break. That made one rule non-negotiable: a habit's name, amounts and slips never reach anyone else, not even as a badge name.
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EngineeringRemoving two translations, properly
PaceStreak had German and Spanish catalogues. They're gone now. Removing a language isn't deleting two files: it's the picker, the stored preference, the tests and every place that assumed more than one.
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EngineeringTests that truncate every table
The API's test suite empties the database it points at, including the dev admin account. How we keep it pointed at the right one.
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InfrastructureTwo repositories that are public on purpose
Everything in the PaceStreak org is private except the status page and the org's .github repo. Here is why neither should be 'fixed'.
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InfrastructureWhere PaceStreak is now, and what stands between it and launch
A status report: what is built across the API, the app and the sites, what's tested, and the one unresolved decision (where the API runs) that everything else is waiting on.
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Security & PrivacyRebuilding the website so it can't describe features we don't have
The public site described an idea; the product had moved on. The rebuild puts every claim in one data file sourced from the code, ships a streak simulator that runs the real rules, and keeps the site static with zero third-party requests.
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Security & PrivacyYour data leaves with you
Export as JSON, CSV or calendar; import it back; delete with a 30-day safety net; units that can't corrupt history; and moderation that never touches your training log.
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Security & PrivacyWhen the streak should wait: pauses, planned rest and importing from a watch
Five features built in one pass: an injury pause that can't be abused, planned rest on the grid, a weekly recap, GPX/FIT/CSV import without third-party sync, a private calendar feed, and an official account nobody can imitate.
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EngineeringOne worker, one lock: reminders that never nag twice
How PaceStreak's background worker notices streaks that ended in silence, times reminders to each person's evening, sends a weekly recap, and stays safe to run twice.
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