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A coding-analytics platform built end to end: editor extensions, a FastAPI backend, and a React dashboard that shows where the time actually went.

Surfaces
3
extension · API · dashboard
Editors
VS Code · Cursor
Auth
GitHub OAuth
Stack
FastAPI + React

My role

Sole author — backend, frontend and extension

Domains

Full stack/Developer tools/Analytics

01

Context

Every developer has a rough theory about where their day goes. Mine was wrong often enough that I wanted the actual numbers — which project, which language, how much of it was real editing rather than a window left open.

02

The problem

The activity data exists, but it is trapped inside each editor and stops at the machine boundary. Nothing tells you that the four hours in VS Code on the laptop and the two in Cursor on the desktop were the same project, and nothing survives switching machines.

03

What I built

Three pieces, all mine. Extensions for VS Code and Cursor collect session data in the background. A backend server pulls the latest sessions rather than trusting clients to push, so a crashed editor or a machine that went offline is a gap to fill in rather than data lost. GitHub OAuth ties every session to an account with per-account isolation, which is what makes multi-device aggregation work at all. On top of that, a React dashboard renders daily, weekly and monthly views.

04

Outcome

One dashboard covering both editors and every machine I work on, with real session telemetry rather than guesswork. Shipped as v0.0.1 with the backend, frontend and extension in one repository.

How it works

Detail
Pull-based collection
The server asks for the latest sessions instead of accepting pushes. That makes the client dumb and replaceable, and it means an editor that crashed mid-session does not silently lose the window — the next pull reconciles it.
Account isolation from the first commit
GitHub OAuth with per-account data isolation, so aggregating across devices is a property of the data model rather than something bolted on afterwards.
Editor extension as a first-class client
The VS Code extension streams live session telemetry rather than writing a log for something else to scrape, which keeps the dashboard honest about what is happening right now.

Built with

Python/FastAPI/TypeScript/React/VS Code API