This is part 3 of our Melzaminder Series. Previously we introduced the Mindful Munching with Metrics program followed by To Weigh Or Not To Weigh, in which we argue in favor of poor maligned scale weight as a useful getting-in-shape metric. Here, we generalize the idea of metrics that aren’t quite the...

This is part 2 of our Melzaminder Series. Last time we introduced the Mindful Munching with Metrics program, which is now at capacity and going amazingly. We’ve already started a wait list for the next one. The very first step of the program is choosing a suitable gauge of one’s progress. We discussed...

Happy New Year! Starting today, for the first 9 weeks of the year, Beeminder and MelzaFit.com are teaming up for a group accountability coaching program. If you want to try intuitive eating as a weight control strategy, dump the diet mindset, and also try out some nerdtasticness with Beeminder graphs...

Welcome one and all to this announcement of our latest Beeminder integration: Curlminder. This one’s for the nerds. The idea is that you give us a URL and a regular expression, and we fetch the contents of the webpage, match it on the regex, and pull out a number. In theory you can use this to beemind...

Users have been lobbying for this feature for years. Finally we threw in the towel and implemented it. Hitting the Uncle Button (crying uncle) means accepting a derailment before the clock runs out. This is actually kind of critical to let users do and it’s silly it took us so long. I mean, for starters,...

Remember Fractional Beeminding? We’ve been putting it to great use for such goals as Our meta goal to keep churning out autodata integrations Project Euler, and Workerbee-Visible Improvements. A key clarification before reviewing how it works: fractional beeminding doesn’t mean beeminding something with...

Question from the internet: What do we mean by calling Beeminder hyperrational goal tracking? Before I give my answer, here’s a recent example from the inventor of Ruby on Rails using “hyperrational” in the context of sociopathic companies: [Fines on tech companies] put a price on criminal behavior,...

Beeminder as the nuclear option means beeminding something as an insurance policy. You have a nice graph of your progress but you maintain enough safety buffer that you’re not in danger of derailing and getting stung (being charged money for going off track on your goal, for those just tuning in). In...

Being a smidge embarrassed by the term “user-squeaming”, we sat on this draft for years. But when we used it again this morning we decided the concept handle had officially stuck and figured it was time to give it the imprimatur of a blog post. User-squeaming means being excessively squeamish about what...