The Teardowns
Build Log
Technical notes from the sports × engineering intersection. How this site works, what broke, and what running a gym taught me about software.
Sep 24, 2026
How I rebuilt medmansports.com static-first in a day
The site was a Next.js app doing runtime fetches against a cold-starting serverless API — to serve 11 weeks of workouts. Now the workouts are one JSON file and every public page is static. Here's the teardown.
Sep 24, 2026
Software problems I saw running a gym
Before I wrote software for a living, I owned a gym. The software problems were better than the burpees. What broke, why the industry tools didn't help, and how I'd build it now.
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