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Blog · ux

  1. Food Photos in the Log View

    Food Photos in the Log View

    Aug 03, 2026

    Final touches to the Bearly Fit food UI - food images in the log view, an info button, and a richer barcode scanning screen with Nova, Nutriscore and Ecoscore grades.

    Final touches to the Bearly Fit food UI - food images in the log view, an info button, and a richer barcode scanning screen with Nova, Nutriscore and Ecoscore grades.

    Food Photos in the Log View

    Food Photos in the Log View

    Aug 03, 2026

    Final touches to the Bearly Fit food UI - food images in the log view, an info button, and a richer barcode scanning screen with Nova, Nutriscore and Ecoscore grades.

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  2. Smarter Food Search

    Smarter Food Search

    Jul 28, 2026

    Making it easier to find food in Bearly Fit's growing database with meal-period presets, smart defaults based on the time of day, and Most Recent and All Food filters.

    Making it easier to find food in Bearly Fit's growing database with meal-period presets, smart defaults based on the time of day, and Most Recent and All Food filters.

    Smarter Food Search

    Smarter Food Search

    Jul 28, 2026

    Making it easier to find food in Bearly Fit's growing database with meal-period presets, smart defaults based on the time of day, and Most Recent and All Food filters.

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  3. Revamping the Exercise View

    Revamping the Exercise View

    Jul 27, 2026

    Revamping the Bearly Fit Exercise View - removing the double menu, making core information prominent, naming targeted muscle groups and improving the guides.

    Revamping the Bearly Fit Exercise View - removing the double menu, making core information prominent, naming targeted muscle groups and improving the guides.

    Revamping the Exercise View

    Revamping the Exercise View

    Jul 27, 2026

    Revamping the Bearly Fit Exercise View - removing the double menu, making core information prominent, naming targeted muscle groups and improving the guides.

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  4. Redesigning the Food Screen

    Redesigning the Food Screen

    Jul 20, 2026

    Sitemaps, indexnow, and redesigning the Bearly Fit food screen to show all the information without overwhelming you.

    Sitemaps, indexnow, and redesigning the Bearly Fit food screen to show all the information without overwhelming you.

    Redesigning the Food Screen

    Redesigning the Food Screen

    Jul 20, 2026

    Sitemaps, indexnow, and redesigning the Bearly Fit food screen to show all the information without overwhelming you.

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  5. Nutriscore, Ecoscore & Nova

    Nutriscore, Ecoscore & Nova

    Jul 02, 2026

    Adding Nutriscore, Ecoscore and Nova classification to Bearly Fit's food section - showing the nutritional and environmental impact of the food you're eating.

    Adding Nutriscore, Ecoscore and Nova classification to Bearly Fit's food section - showing the nutritional and environmental impact of the food you're eating.

    Nutriscore, Ecoscore & Nova

    Nutriscore, Ecoscore & Nova

    Jul 02, 2026

    Adding Nutriscore, Ecoscore and Nova classification to Bearly Fit's food section - showing the nutritional and environmental impact of the food you're eating.

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  6. Building an Offline Food Database

    Building an Offline Food Database

    Jul 01, 2026

    Building Bearly Fit's offline food database - 2300 searchable items with nutrition, dietary flags, Nutriscore and varied portion sizes, all without an internet connection.

    Building Bearly Fit's offline food database - 2300 searchable items with nutrition, dietary flags, Nutriscore and varied portion sizes, all without an internet connection.

    Building an Offline Food Database

    Building an Offline Food Database

    Jul 01, 2026

    Building Bearly Fit's offline food database - 2300 searchable items with nutrition, dietary flags, Nutriscore and varied portion sizes, all without an internet connection.

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  7. Love When a Plan Comes Together

    Love When a Plan Comes Together

    May 10, 2026

    Revamping the workout plan management UI now that the wizard can generate them - plus info buttons, session awareness, and what's coming next.

    Revamping the workout plan management UI now that the wizard can generate them - plus info buttons, session awareness, and what's coming next.

    Love When a Plan Comes Together

    Love When a Plan Comes Together

    May 10, 2026

    Revamping the workout plan management UI now that the wizard can generate them - plus info buttons, session awareness, and what's coming next.

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  8. Playing With Dark Magic

    Playing With Dark Magic

    May 04, 2026

    Calculating sets, reps, weight and time scaling for generated workout plans - with a bit of progressive overload and de-loading thrown in.

    Calculating sets, reps, weight and time scaling for generated workout plans - with a bit of progressive overload and de-loading thrown in.

    Playing With Dark Magic

    Playing With Dark Magic

    May 04, 2026

    Calculating sets, reps, weight and time scaling for generated workout plans - with a bit of progressive overload and de-loading thrown in.

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  9. The Suns Out

    The Suns Out

    Apr 29, 2026

    The workout plan summary screen is almost done - and the next bit is figuring out how to calculate sets and reps from your history.

    The workout plan summary screen is almost done - and the next bit is figuring out how to calculate sets and reps from your history.

    The Suns Out

    The Suns Out

    Apr 29, 2026

    The workout plan summary screen is almost done - and the next bit is figuring out how to calculate sets and reps from your history.

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  10. Working Some Magic

    Working Some Magic

    Apr 01, 2026

    Polishing the Workout Wizard's UX and thinking about how to break the Bearly Fit codebase into self contained modules.

    Polishing the Workout Wizard's UX and thinking about how to break the Bearly Fit codebase into self contained modules.

    Working Some Magic

    Working Some Magic

    Apr 01, 2026

    Polishing the Workout Wizard's UX and thinking about how to break the Bearly Fit codebase into self contained modules.

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  11. Off to See the Wizard

    Off to See the Wizard

    Mar 26, 2026

    Today on James-is-unemployed... I've been mostly working on the Bearly Fit workout plan creator and figuring out how people pick muscles when they don't know muscle names.

    Today on James-is-unemployed... I've been mostly working on the Bearly Fit workout plan creator and figuring out how people pick muscles when they don't know muscle names.

    Off to See the Wizard

    Off to See the Wizard

    Mar 26, 2026

    Today on James-is-unemployed... I've been mostly working on the Bearly Fit workout plan creator and figuring out how people pick muscles when they don't know muscle names.

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