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π³ Calorie cycling
Back in 2018 I hired my first virtual PT Menno Henselmans. He made a program for me that was way too sophisticated for me to adhere to back then, as an absolute beginner.
I think I've learned a lot ever since and feel ready to try out more of the program's principles now.
One of them is calorie...
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Time to cut πͺ
18 months have passed since I started working with my online fitness coach. Deciding to hire an expert after ~3 years of trying things out myself has turned out to be a big win.
I finally started to make progress and learned the basic principles of fitness:
1. Do compound exercises with progres...
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What is Healthy Financial Habits? πΈ
The Healthy Financial Habits tool helps consumers stay
within budget on the basis of their personality. The tool, which is based on the insights
of behavioral economics and personality psychology, implements the strong
relationship between peopleβs spending and personality.
The algorithm compares...
My passport photo webapp is used by both consumers (e-commerce) and businesses (API, white label). What do you think?Β
Use coupon code "wip" and receive your digital photos for freeπ°.
The app is available in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese and Dutch.
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π The one year mark
A belated update, I'm 1+ year in now and gained exactly 8 kilos, while keeping waist circumference same.
This includes COVID-19 times, when gyms closed and I had to do home workouts for two months. After building my home gym, it took two more months to get to same strength level as before the p...
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πͺπ» The hundredth workout
I'm tracking my workouts with WIP. Today was my hundredth workout since I started working with my online personal trainer Rob.
Till date I gained 4,1 kilos of lean body mass, exactly 0,5 kilos per month like planned, while keeping waist circumference same.
I will write on it later this year whe...
Pasfoto.nu's app is now available in 6 languages π.
The photo app for Dutch passport photos added support for 5 foreign languages to help Dutch expats with a reduced level of their language, following the example of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The available languages are:
β’ π³π±DutchΒ
β’ π¬π§En...
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β‘οΈ API improvements
The new pasfoto API is now live and integrated on the website. It has some major improvements:
β’ π« Included background uniformity check.
β’ π Face cropping now works with new, improved technique.Β
β’ π Better documentation and authentication for B2B clients.
By the way, "pasfoto" is the Dutch wor...
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π§ New Podcast on Personality & Design
Sailing on his vintage mahogany boat in early autumn we interviewed professor Jan Schoormans, a leading expert in product personality reflects upon the increasing relevance of personality in design but also in choice and match processes.
Professor Schoormans elaborates on product personality in...
Today I took some time to make an overview of all customer reviews I received and calculate the Net Promoter Score.
Since March 2018 I ask for customer reviews via an autoresponder one week after the order. 228 customers responded.
The NPS turns to be 19%, which can be interpreted as "Good", b...
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π Introducing CaPPr Insights
As our clients are are getting more and more respondents on our visual personality tests the overwiew was somehow getting lost. So we built CaPPr Insights.
CaPPr Insights is an environment for our clients to get insights in their respondents' personality scores and the percentage of match with t...