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My quest of building API wrappers in python continues with the FitBit. The handy devices tracks most of my activities and movements during daytime. So it's an excellent self-tracking device, especially with the wireless sync. There wasn't an API interface available in python, so with some borrowed code I decided to build my own. I made an GitHub repository with the code and an example for you to use. Please fork and correct any changes that you think would be useful for me to learn! continue reading...

Since I got my Kindle I started reading a lot more books and articles. And one of the nice things you can do is add notes and clip certain pieces of text. The Kindle saves all those things into a text file for easy access, but I wanted those to be searchable as well in my system. I wrote a small python script that extracts all notes and clippings from the text file and creates a new note in Evernote for each of them. continue reading...

During the QS Conference the awesome guys from Zeo gifted me one of their sleep monitors. And 1 week ago it arrived by mail. I promised to create as much value in return if I liked the Zeo. And I do, I absolutely do. Here is why: As an average person sleep 8 hours a day you spend 1/3 of your life lying in bed... That's a lot of time spend. continue reading...

On the 25th of may my trip started with a 11 hour long flight straight to San Francisco to visit the Quantified Self Conference in Mountain View. The trip was funded by donations, ideas and people. Together with Martijn Aslander I've spent the first few days as a tourist and visited most of the spots that represent San Francisco. Then we boarded the Caltrain for Mountain View. I volunteered at the the conference which brought me way more then being just there as a guest. continue reading...

I love the Read It Later List service. Each day I save about 20-30 articles from Google Reader or my Twitter client so I can read them later. However, these amounts make it hard for me to process all the things I save. That's why I need a readinglist that has additional filtering/speed/shortcuts. As my endeavors with Python continue, for the last few months I've been developing my own version of the perfect readinglist build upon the API of Read It Later List. continue reading...

On average, a human spends one third (8 hours) of it's time sleeping. That's a lot and one of the reasons I decided to dip my interest into dreaming and dream recall.

With trial and error, I've made a modified version of the WILD ((http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/wake-induced-lucid-dreams.html)) method that works for me with a success-rate of about 80% for dream recall, no lucid state yet. So here is how it works: continue reading...

It started millions of years ago with fire and the invention of language. Then simple tools and in later stages, clothing and shoes. Nowadays the trend continues with more sophisticated technology. Smartphones and watches are some of the things we keep on us at all times. Humans have developed the habit to extend themselves by using technology. In such a way that it sprouted a certain feeling of loss when not having access to the technology of which we've made our own. continue reading...

I love Mobypicture. It's the service I use to post my pictures onto Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. It makes uploading photos from my mobile phone as simple as it could possibly be. Even better, the service is free to use, unlike Flickr which only allows access to last 200 images if you go with their freemium model. But sadly using Mobypicture isn't without downsides. There is no export functionality as of yet. continue reading...

I'll figured out to publish this, not only for my archives, but also to share some insight into the data that a person could generate. Have a look at the things I'm tracking to function as an archive or feedback loop. If I have some more time, I'll explain the things I use to make this all possible. Distance travelled (which cities did I visit?) Which people do I meet everyday? continue reading...

Het gaat keihard met mijn spaarpotje voor mijn reis naar Amerika(San Francisco), heel veel mensen hebben al geholpen door te doneren of door het verder te verspreiden. Inmiddels ben ik over de 60%, en heb ik nog twee maanden te gaan. Dat ga ik dus met deze snelheid prima redden! Om de hele actie een boost te geven heb ik het volgende bedacht: Ik verloot 1 middag sparren/hulp/brainstormen/(invullen) met mij over bijvoorbeeld Slimmer Werken of The Quantified Self of een ander onderwerp waarbij ik jou kan helpen. continue reading...