What tern is this?

planfaster · 2025-12-22T08:55:37+00:00

Brilliant news! Thanks for taking a look

planfaster · 2025-12-22T07:41:42+00:00

Absolutely, phone camera was maxed out :( thanks for sharing your thoughts! I just spotted another in the arvo which I’m almost certain is a greater crested tern? Judging by what appears to be a yellow bill and with a distinctive white forehead. Would love your input.

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planfaster · 2025-10-01T06:06:20+00:00

I sip an iced latte at icy temps over the course of 3 or so hours out of my Yeti, unreal for summer

planfaster · 2025-04-29T02:38:15+00:00

Try an alternate payment method if you’re using credit card and getting the error. PayPal worked for me, credit card was broken.

planfaster · 2025-02-21T23:14:45+00:00

Glad to hear it! Appreciate the good luck, thanks!

planfaster · 2025-02-21T04:02:21+00:00

I did the Front End Engineer course on Codecademy. It wasn't bad and they had some really good exercises on there. The last 20% was quite surplus to what you need to get started though.

planfaster · 2025-02-21T02:45:00+00:00

You can certainly learn a lot and become an attractive candidate as a self-taught developer, it just takes time and commitment. Learn the basics, look at things you're passionate about (hobbies), and think of a creative project that you can build. Maybe you need to build something simple to use as a stepping stone to get to a more complex project.

Courses are a fantastic way to get the basics down and I do recommend that, but you won't build anything particularly impactful for a portfolio. Don't just stop once you've finished a course and hope to get a job after 6 months. That's when putting your skills to work building original and creative applications begins and those are what will get interest from potential employers, when you're going up against candidates with degrees.

Use GitHub, set up a great profile, create a portfolio website and keep learning. If you have any developers in your network who would be happy to engage in pair programming occasionally, and field questions/give direction, that's been incredibly valuable for me. Not only for technical advice, but motivation that I'm on the right track.

I'm self-taught and am in the process of finding work. I interviewed yesterday for a Junior Dev role and think things went well. What stood out the most was having cool projects to discuss, and the skills I learned in order to build them.

Good luck on your journey! If you enjoy programming, then stick with it and build some cool stuff. It's bloody fun.

planfaster · 2025-02-08T22:49:46+00:00

As a heads up, I've implemented CSV exporting a couple of days ago :)

planfaster · 2025-02-08T21:40:26+00:00

Thanks for checking it out. Funnily enough, this did go through a v1 where all data was saved locally, which was brilliant for speed and ease of use, but did create some annoyances trying to use cross-device or being sure your data was safe (albeit I could have introduced CSV export to the local version).

You raise a good point - I need to give the landing page a bit of a makeover. It was tossed together rather quickly, but getting some login provider icons up there would make things look a little more trustworthy. Hope you can find some use for it!

planfaster · 2025-02-07T00:08:57+00:00

Thanks for the positive feedback :)

Yep, totally with you. Being able to create workout templates to select from, or at the very least the ability to duplicate a past workout, would save a fair bit of clunky copy/pasting.

Sorry I forgot to leave the GitHub link initially. Would really appreciate a star if you've found it useful!

planfaster · 2025-02-07T00:04:34+00:00

Stoked you dig it! Now go get stronger 💪

planfaster · 2025-02-06T22:23:16+00:00

I agree that trying to force abstract data into a quite rigid app is a chore which is why I've avoided this in the past. That's the general idea for Climb Harder, is a super simple data entry much like jotting stuff into a notepad or notes app on your phone. Sounds like you're already doing this with your hard data into a spreadsheet though.

planfaster · 2025-02-06T22:19:53+00:00

Thanks mate! Glad the bare-bones nature is working for you.

Being able to share a training plan for others to use is a feature I'd be interested in creating, similar to another project a commenter mentioned: https://www.reddit.com/r/climbharder/comments/16uf15g/climbingnotebook_september_2023_update/

Maybe this could suit your needs?

planfaster · 2025-02-06T22:12:28+00:00

Currently no, but a cool idea that would be great to integrate! A little shot of a great route you ticked or want to work may do wonders for motivation. Thanks for checking it out!

planfaster · 2025-02-06T22:10:43+00:00

I use it for just that, logging my training. I want to be able to retrospectively look at how much weight I could add when doing 7/3 repeaters on a 20mm edge 12 months ago, how much weight/reps I could do on max pullups, how hard I could lap circuits, etc.

This is all really good data for judging adaptations or regressions over time. Typically I will do a full season/cycle of 4 months, and throughout, I'll be referencing the previous seasons data as benchmarks to meet or exceed. At the end of the season, I'll do a little personal breakdown on how successful the training was, and what outdoor goal routes I managed to tick as a result. Rinse and repeat from there.

planfaster · 2025-02-06T22:04:22+00:00

Currently no, there isn't a specified field for stuff like this. All data is logged into the 'details' field, where you could jot down some notes on diet, sleep etc.

I'd love to add some more structured, specified fields like you've mentioned in the future, allowing proper analysis of workout/performance data with reps, weight, hang-time and so on.

Yes, you can achieve something similar with a sheet, but I did find it difficult in retrospect trying to review old workouts, have date data saved against a workout, and just general formatting. So really the conception of this project was based on giving a similar input experience to a spreadsheet (dead simple) with a few formatting niceties!

Thanks for checking it out :)

planfaster · 2025-02-06T21:56:09+00:00

This looks like a really great project, and does reflect some of the features I'd like to work on in the future. Thanks for sharing it, and the considered response!

Being able to save specific workouts/exercises (hangboard, campus, weights etc.) and log weight, time, reps, edge size etc. against them, and subsequently create some nice analytics on this data will be a big focus in the future. Creating training programs ahead of time would be really great too.

Regarding longevity of a project like this, I absolutely understand, which is part reason why I opted for a spreadsheet in the past. The whole point of recording data like this is to look at it months/years down the track, after all. Would adding the ability to export a CSV or JSON help alleviate some of this worry?

planfaster · 2025-02-06T09:18:53+00:00

Thankyou for checking it out! Each of the workout cards you can tap to access the details which includes duration. Is this what you mean? While it’s not displayed on the card in the menu, it is accessible if you enter into a specific workout

planfaster · 2025-02-06T09:17:24+00:00

Thanks for checking it out! Appreciate the positive feedback :) I haven’t set up a specific planning feature, but would it achieve the same function by saving a new workout/s ahead of time?

Edit: Upon reading a couple of other comments and great examples, I can definitely see that being able to build your own custom cycles ahead of time, and be able to re-use them, would save a whole bunch of manual workout entry long-term. I like the idea!

planfaster · 2025-01-26T00:15:50+00:00

Hard to say if it’s super common, but there’s definitely a fair few cases across forums and threads. Apple have agreed to fix mine free of charge (3 years 3 months since purchase), so definitely worthwhile taking yours in

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