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Notes on building Gentle Plate and the thinking behind it, in plain words. Who is writing this, and why, is on the about page. Subscribe with the RSS feed - posts are never emailed.
- Eating through the cycle, and what the evidence actually supports
We spent a year adjusting meals around my partner's cycle from advice found online. When I built it into the app I went looking for what holds up. Less than I expected, and one number that does.
- How we test whether the estimates are honest
Gentle Plate shows a range, not a number. Here is how I check that the range is telling the truth, what the checks found, and the afternoon they measured code I had already deleted.
- Why I built a food tracker with no streaks
My partner asked for a calorie tracker that would not judge them. So I built one where a missed day is invisible and every number is a range.