In the past, I’ve stuck to a pretty consistent set of tools, and they have influenced the comparison I’ll be making. The tools which I’ve used the most for this purpose is MyFitnessPal, and so this is the tool I’ll be benchmarking the others against.

The second tool I’ve deiced to compare is Garmin Connect +, which is the “premium” version of Garmin’s fitness platform. I use Garmin wearables and Garmin bike computers and power meters, so it would seem a good idea to try and combine all of my fitness needs into a single subscription.

And the third tool I’ve decided to compare against is FoodVisor, which was recommended by the Apple Play store. I don’t really know much about it, so we’ll see how it compares.

All three tools have Apple iOS apps, which is a pre-requisite, as well as integration with Apple Health. I’m curious to see how Apple Health will cope with all three trying to sync similar data.

So, today is day 1, and I’ll aim to get a comparative review up at the beginning of May.

What a brilliant location! Its a very busy site, and is often quite hard to get into during peak periods. And its not the cheapest of sites either. But well worth it!

On the trip in and out, you do need to be very mindful of the height and width restrictions around York. Funnily enough, the trip in was okay, but we could easily have come a cropper on our departure! 🤣

The site has nice large gravel pitches with EHU and plenty of space for awnings, and the facilities are spotless, with nice hot showers! You’re right next to Rowntree Park to keep the dog happy, and right night to the river, which can unfortunately lead to flooding of the site.

From the site, its only a short walk into the city centre where you can explore the Shambles, the Minster, and all of the other attractions that York offers. You can even meet Paddington Bear as he visits the city!

The York Parkrun is close as well, and if we’d been there on a Saturday, I think it would have been obligatory to run over to it!

I think York Rowntree Park has become our new favourite site!

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I’ve tried using Day One, and its really good for writing a private journal, but it doesn’t meet all of my demands in terms of what I want to be able to do.

I have a couple of Instagram logins, and I think I’m going to create one specially for Entropicalee, which is where I will post photos I want to share on the blog. The same goes for YouTube, and Facebook, but I haven’t decided to what extent I want to include or cross post content onto those platforms.

I decided to take a look at Jekyll, which is a Static Site Generator. This has many of the benefits of a blogging platform, but is used to create a static site, making it more resilient from both a performance and security perspective.

As I was already using Cloudflare, a solution using Cloudflare’s Pages seemed like a really good way to go, and managed to get it working with the help of ChatGPT and the Cloudflare Jekyll tutorial. It looks like the tutorial hasn’t quite caught up with some more recent UI changes. 🤣

The trick is to click on the “Get Started” link at the bottom of the create worker dialog… who would have guessed! Once you do that, the rest of the tutorial instructions make perfect sense! 😊