I exercise quite a lot and I have not been able to find an app to keep track of it which satisfies all of my criteria. Most fitness trackers are geared towards cardio and I also do a lot of strength training. After spending a year trying to make due with combinations of various fitness trackers and other apps I decided to just write my own, which could do everything I wanted and could show all of the reports I wanted.

I did that and after using it for a few weeks put it online at workout-log.com. It's not fancy and it is quite likely very buggy at this point, but it is open to anyone who wants to use it. 

It's written with Django and jQuery and uses ChartJS for the charts. 

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I have really been loving Django lately, and I wrote another version of this site in it. That site is skooch.com. The new site uses the same database as this one, so the only real difference is the language they are written in.

I find Python to be a much more opinionated and formal language than PHP, which makes it a steeper learning curve, but it forces you to think things through a bit more. I find the extra effort to be well worth it in the end as far as code quality goes. 

As a note the Python code was significantly shorter than the same code in PHP, for whatever that is worth.

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I had been using SQLLite with Django for quite some time because I couldn't get mysqlclient for windows to install properly with pip. SQLLite was fine for local development, but before I deploy an app I wanted to get MySQL working.

It turns out it was very easy:

pip install mysqlclient==1.3.9

That's all I need to do! I had tried downloading wheels and all sorts of other stuff, none of which worked, but version 1.3.9 installs fine with no errors on Windows 10.

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