Debugging Fitbit API Integration and Building a Fitness Data Table
Fixing broken API endpoints, understanding Fitbit's Web API structure, and creating a simple data table to visualize synced fitness metrics.
Fixing broken API endpoints, understanding Fitbit's Web API structure, and creating a simple data table to visualize synced fitness metrics.
Building laverty.io: A Hub-and-Spoke architecture using Astro, Cloudflare Workers, D1, and Clerk to host multiple independent web experiences (photography, coding, fitness, genealogy, forums) under a single identity with serverless infrastructure.
What I'm building, why I'm putting very different ideas on one site, and where the project is currently at.
A comprehensive genealogical study of interconnected European immigrant families who settled in the Mid North Coast region of NSW from 1853–1865. Documents their immigration, settlement, marriages, WWI sacrifice, and community legacy across three centuries.
A genealogical narrative using Google Gemini 3 Pro to verify and document family history from GEDCOM data. Covers the McGree brothers' sacrifice in WWI, the Laverty migration from industrial England to rural NSW, the Trainer family's post-war immigration, German pioneer heritage, and Jacobite legends.
An in-depth oral history interview with my grandfather Leonard James Laverty, covering life in rural Australia during the 1920s–1930s, including transport, school, farm work, food, and daily challenges of pioneering life.