Things: a blog about tech and health.
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Building an MCP Server to Let Claude Read My Blood Sugar
I started wearing a continuous glucose monitor, and within weeks I’d accumulated over 150,000 data points. The data was interesting. The problem was accessing it. I wanted to actually interrogate my data – correlate glucose spikes with meals, compare patterns across weeks, ask questions I hadn’t thought of yet. So I built an MCP server…
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Withings MCP
Talking to My Scales: A Withings MCP Server I’ve been building a small collection of personal MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that let an AI assistant like Claude pull data from the services I actually use — Strava, Spotify, Garmin, and my Withings body scale. This post covers the Withings one: how it authenticates, what it exposes,…
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Straify – Strava meets Spotify
It started with a simple question: Which Spotify tracks make me run faster? As a runner who always trains with music, I thought I picked up the pace and pushed on during certain songs. That curiosity led me to build Straify, a project that began as a way to correlate my Spotify listening history with my Strava…