Paternity Leave Side Project

Thu Feb 10 2022

10 months ago I became a father for the first time! To keep track of how far I pushed my baby boy around in a stroller/jogger during my paternal leave, I created a small web app with tech that was unfamiliar to me. 65 days into my paternity leave I've covered 503 kilometers, and I've been out more than 100 hours.

I usually track my runs/hikes/skiing with my Garmin Fenix 3 watch, which syncs to Strava. Since I usually don't record any regular walks with my GPS watch, the app fetches all walks from Strava during my paternity leave and plots them on a map including some summary statistics.

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The app is built with SvelteKit and deployed to pappaperm.vercel.app with Vercel where you can check it out yourself. If you'd like to checkout the code, I've open-sourced it on github.com/fjukstad/pappaperm. I had a great time deploying the app with Vercel, and tweeted about it which generated a bit of traffic on my, not so busy, Twitter account.

I think I'll make it to 700 kilometers before I return to work, but we'll see!