senjindarashiva

Hi all — happy to answer questions.

A bit more context on why I built this.

I travel a lot for work and that’s where the frustration usually appeared. I would write a sensible training week on Sunday, but by Wednesday the context had changed: bad sleep, long workdays, limited time to train, etc.

Intervals.icu is fantastic for analyzing data and planning workouts, but the moment where I kept hesitating was the day-to-day decision: does today’s workout still make sense given what actually happened this week?

Most of the time the answer is not “skip training” but something like:

• reduce intensity • shorten the workout • swap sessions • move the hard day

That’s the niche PacePartner is trying to fill — acting as a small decision layer on top of existing tools rather than replacing them.

Also worth mentioning: this started purely as a tool for my own training, so the design goal was always to keep the athlete in control rather than have the system take over the entire plan.

Curious to hear how others handle this problem today — especially people who self-coach.

I am assuming your in a country where you have to pay for university courses? If not I've personally found that it's an interesting and worthwhile complement to development work. Working as a developer and taking some courses in areas where I feel that theoretical knowledge is beneficial while slowly working towards a masters. From a career standpoint I don't think the degree while help that much however the deeper knowledge might. But again this is under the assumption that the education is free.

In microsofts defence this issue isn't linux specific... dual booting two windows 11 installations causes similar issues, where they invalidate or remove eachothers boot sectors

Don't you bring up an example of how a book can change your life in your question. If a book makes you view the world differently (even by a little) doesn't that change your outlook on life?

As a personal example a book/novel (how to live on 24 hours a day) made me change how I view my day, shifting from a work day focus (the day is finished when work is finished) to looking at the waking time outside of work as the focus for my day.

This is something noticeable both to me and my surrounding since it gave me a lot more time to do things for personal enjoyment or to help others every day.

And no it didn't change the world but it made a profound impact on my life by implementing a tiny change in how I view the world

- How to live on 24 hours a day (Arnold Bennett) A short and fairly simplistic view of daily life that really changed how I look on time.

- How to run a big ship (Cptn Rory O'Connor, RN) Really made me think about how much of modern leadership and management theory is a rehash of old theory. But now we replacing the individuals responsibility with hired consultants that should "teach" us how to work.

- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Together with my Grandmother really showed me a way to live with focus on what matters.

Apart from this there is a lot of fiction that has added up to create the ideals I try to live by today and to be fair I think you can do worse than basing your ideals on classical fantasy and science fiction.

I kind of agree but I think you make another point there, as a parent there is a big difference between getting drunk in-front of your kids and having a beer with food.

And it's the same thing with screen time and internet usage I don't think it's practically possible to have the same rules for adults and children in a home, bed time is an excellent example.

However you can still have clear and communicated rules for both the adults and the children that way holding yourself to the same standards.

In the bedtime example our 5yo goes to bed by ~1800 and the entire family gets up at ~0500 with the adults having a set bedtime at ~2100-2200. Of course these times can be altered by external circumstances but then we try to make the reasoning clear.

For screens and devices we use the same logic, yeah I work on the computer thus I will be using the screen more than a 5yo but outside of work I limit my own screen time as well as my kids, not the same level but a distinct limit to both of us.

So basically like getting grounded, which I thought was the worst that could happen but looking back it was probably for the best and made me rethink some bad behaviors.

I believe the key there is the fact that my parents made it clear why I was being grounded and spent the time explaining it to me.

Given the original constraints of the OP I don't think that would be to much of a overhead. A text and limited amount of images blog like page does not require any major tools in either of the ones mentioned. However you do have a point when you want to start adding more complex features, then it quickly becomes a lot more complicated than just fixing it in the plain html page requiring the change.

I think you kind of answer your own question here, Latex/PDF handles all of the things you mentioned with relative ease, with the only drawback being that PDF's can be hard to parse automaticly. However that point seems moot as well since it's fairly easy to share datasets and actual results separately.

Inventing new systems to replace latex/pdf and ftp (for sharing datasets) would introduce significant overhead without providing any tangible benefits.

So the big question in my mind is why should you move away from latex/pdf?

Putting a cap high enough to allow people to reach financial independence would be something totally different, and I do agree that such measures would probably stem "innovation" or at least focus it on only solving immediate issues.

However putting the cap at a billion would probably have limited effect in this sense, it would probably stop quite a lot of billionaire vanity projects though.