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.
Alex Laverty
Polymath Creator
Big Data Platform Engineer by day, AI Vibe Code Dreamer by night, and creator documenting the journey across tech, art, and life. Building in public and sharing what I learn along the way.
Areas of Expertise
Software Engineering
Photography
Virtual Reality
Fitness & Movement
Genealogy
Top Contributions
Vibe Coding
Vibe Coding the Perfect Website for 2026
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.
Building laverty.io — a single platform for many different projects
What I'm building, why I'm putting very different ideas on one site, and where the project is currently at.
Genealogy
Genealogical Report: The Cook (Koch), Coulter, Laverty, and McGree Families of New South Wales
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.
Laverty History with Gemini 3 Pro
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.
Leonard James Laverty Interview
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.