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You just finished a long run. Your watch buzzed, Strava logged everything (distance, pace, elevation) and you open the app to stare at a wall of numbers. You know there's something useful in there, but getting to it feels like digging through a filing cabinet.
I built an expense tracker to try out Encore. It's a small project with Go on the backend with a few REST endpoints, PostgreSQL as the database, and SvelteKit on the frontend, but substantial enough to get a real feel for the framework. Here's what I found along the way.
I didn’t expect a small device on my wrist to affect my mindset this much. But it did.
As a software engineer, I spend most of my days sitting in front of a screen. Writing code, fixing bugs, and jumping between meetings are part of my daily routine. Hours pass quickly when you're deep in problem-solving mode. But after a while, I started to realize something: my life had become too static. Most of my movement during the day was just moving between my chair, the kitchen, and sometimes a coffee shop. But everything changed because of something very simple: the beach.
