Technical Implementation

Website

Deployment

• static site hosted on Vercel
• auto deploys triggered by git commits

Live data

• Live location, weather, and current temperature updated half-hourly by automatic commit, see app section
• No dynamic info, all static, redeploys through commit
  -- advantages:
  --- Static host sufficient
  --- fast af with only static sites involved
  --- simple

-- disadvantages:
--- rebuild and redeploy every time
--- cache has to be invalidated (Vercel does it automatically so no extra work, but then there's... no cache anymore)

Static Site Generation

• Eleventy

App

• constantly running in my phone's background
• every ~30 minutes, checks my location, current weather, and temperature
  -- automatically git commits with current info to site's repository -> auto deploy
• collects datetime and location data in a local database
• daily backup in a data repository as a csv file

Data

• half hourly data points with datetime and location stored in csv
• script takes that and creates new csv
• every data point represents one day now
  -- location data is summarized per day: location I've been to most on that day is taken as the daily summary, except:
  -- if the location I have been to the most after that has more than 12 data points (~6 hours) I assume a day-trip and use that location as summarizing location for the day
• then the script scrapes a weather service to add weather and max. temperature, scrapes my bank to get the amount of money I spent on each day, and it reads Google's data that I previously download to get the step count and photo count for each day