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It’s been fun. This is all with a view of actually building my own bespoke, useful dashboard. So many cycling apps throw the kitchen sink at you. I just want a few specific things I’m tracking from a good data source.

Always be tinkering.

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Sep 10

It’s a mix of indoor training and outdoor rides. Still work to do around making them easily navigable and performant. The svg maps and HR/Power data plots was a bit of a challenge.

All of this is being built with Eleventy, the Strava API, the Intervals.icu API together with open street map.

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Sep 10

Made a thing on my website.

markboulton.co.uk/rides/

For a while I’ve been wanting to continue to own my own data and I do a fair bit of riding with a lot of data. So putting them up on my site and tinkering felt like a nice thing to do.

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Sep 9

I have opinions about notebooks. The Midori MD A5 gridded notebook is almost perfect. From its lay-flat design and the weight of the paper. But its cover is rubbish. Light weight and gets destroyed by travel. And the separate covers aren’t that great.

I’m not going to make my own but I’m tempted.

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Sep 2

That is a very good idea. Ours are continually chipping. How are you attaching them? And would your fabricator do antique nickel?

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 29

I stuck it in the fridge

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 28

It’s been 25 years since I’ve seen G Love & Special Sauce and tonight they treated us to the entire first album and a few extras. Just a wonderful experience.

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 26

During the first lockdown, I blogged about making a bit of an aggregated feed reader (I guess I was doing a lot of doomscrolling).

markboulton.co.uk/journal/my-o...

I hadn't looked at it ages, but it feels like a scary, depressing, triggering time capsule.

broadsheet.markboulton.co.uk

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 17

I hope Alien Earth gets better.

I think what it hasn’t nailed is that, like the shark in Jaws, the xenomorph’s horror lies in its absence. It was so quiet, so fast, so stealthy, that you have no chance of witnessing it take someone.

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 15

And followed that up with a few words about cake.

markboulton.co.uk/journal/cake/

Cake - Mark Boulton

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 15

I wrote about crit today as I revive my Handbook series of posts.

markboulton.co.uk/journal/crit/

Crit - Mark Boulton

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 15

Back on the weeknotes. markboulton.co.uk/journal/week...

Weeknotes 39 - Mark Boulton

Some notes of the week

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 15

Not seen episode 1 yet!

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Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk · Aug 14

Oh no! I have high hopes!

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