Why I keep rebuilding this website
Three stacks, one excuse to learn. My personal site is less a portfolio than a place to teach myself whatever I'm into that year.
I'm Mason Walters — a data engineer in Austin. I trust what I can measure twice.
once is an anecdote
By day I make a software company's numbers trustworthy. The rest of the time I experiment on my own training and health — what to eat, how to lift, when to back off — looking for what keeps me at my best, and posting the results here. I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all answer. I do believe the effort is non-negotiable — the slow, personal work of getting better at something. That part applies to a lot more than lifting. I'll tell you what worked for me. I won't tell you what to do.
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Posted on this site · since 2020
- Weigh-ins
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- Body-composition scans
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- Training plan & meals
- to the gram
Right now — twelve weeks into losing forty pounds on purpose, re-reading my favorite book about data systems, and untangling how one company counts its customers. Details on /now.
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Fifteen lines of Ruby found plateaus I don't remember
I wrote the stall detector under my weight chart. It flagged month-long flat stretches I remember as steady progress.
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