i didn't like vibecoding my app and ended up with one db instead

i got fed up with being unable to export my daily calories from "lose it!", so i ended up making my own app. it was hilarious. first, i wanted to vibe code an app since i just wanted to get something running fast. vibecoding quickly ended up being too messy, i felt that claude was making bloatware + going with this approach would make it impossible (or very difficult for me) to troubleshoot. it's easier to do things myself at this point. i am not good with frontend, but who needs it? it's a small internal app anyway. so i decided to go with a small python app, literally just a backend with a database connection. i was thinking of hosting it on my raspberry pi, then ssh'ing into it, and making a post request with food info. then it dawned on me. why have backend at all? isn't the only thing i want just a place to write down calories? so long story short, i have postgres running on my raspberry pi. this seems really funny, ending up with a simple database after having started from an…

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