Logorrhea is the software that powers my online life log.

I call it personal telemetry in lieu of a blog.

Lifelogging has long had a pull on me. Back from the days of reading about the hot new Quantified Self movement and personal area networks and the Internet of things in the neon pages of WIRED. I made attempts with Fitbits and even wore an early lapel-mounted camera and wrote about it for Reason. The tech wasn’t quite there back then but it really is now.

And keeping a blog was once easy for me. I had a lot to say. These days I can’t be bothered, but I still have an itch to keep a daily online record. It’s sad, but it’s hard to escape the all-pervasive feeling that if you don’t exist online you don’t exist at all, and having sworn off social media, an online log is methadone.

The site is a record of my days via short entries, almost all of them automated, that capture my location, my activity, my vitals, and photos and status messages I post. Loghorrea collates and publishes data that I was already collecting with disparate tools, from Swarm checkins to my smart bathroom scale. There are too many little components for me to want to catalog right now, but just know that I’m using PHP script to get data from APIs, RSS feeds, and iOS Shortcuts and putting them in a SQLite database.

Most of the fun of life-logging is in the data analysis and presentation. On that Nicholas Felton has been a huge inspiration. It was always a treat to find out he had released his latest annual report. You’ll certainly see his influence in the look of my stats page. He ended his project in 2016.

My project is just beginning, and I’m looking forward to seeing what it spits out with a larger corpus.

Last updated November 18, 2025