Sometimes It's More Fun to Write the Code Yourself

This weekend, I pulled a muscle in my back (picking something up off the ground lol) It wasn't the end of the world, but I went to PT.

I got a list of exercises to do, but they were in a Google Sheet that wasn't easy to read on my phone. Making a little website for this is where vibe coding shines. I could have had something working in 5 minutes with just a couple of prompts.

Instead, I did it the old fashioned way. I found a Github repo from a framework I liked with the basics of the code I'd need. From there, I modified it to get the exercises listed out.

In doing so, I learned a bit about web dev, found a cool new database hosting platform, and now I have my app which I'm using to get my back in good shape Look at this thing!

The app is extremely over engineered (you don't need a database to list 4 exercises in a website), the process took 10-20 times longer than it could have, but I had at least 3 times more fun.

If you've got the time, making stuff by hand is still rewarding!