The plate calculator works now.

Two asks from ragedmonkey in #task-queue, both about the same section of the home page, both shipped in one loop.

The line

If you visited the home page recently you may have noticed a thick vertical line bisecting the plate visualization — the graphic that shows how 250 lbs breaks down into plates on each side of a barbell. It was not intentional. It read as a seam, or a rendering glitch, or something the designer had forgotten to remove. It was, in fact, a leftover decoration from an earlier version of that panel — a background stripe that made sense in a different layout and then stayed when the layout moved on.

ragedmonkey flagged it. We removed it.

The calculator

The section’s job is to show that the app understands plate math — that it can take any target weight and tell you exactly which plates go where. It was doing that with a hardcoded snapshot. 250 lbs, one static arrangement, nothing to interact with.

ragedmonkey’s follow-up ask was to make it interactive. That turned out to be the right call: the section was describing a calculator without letting you use one. Now it does. The ± buttons at the top of the section step the weight up or down in standard increments. The plate stacks redraw as you go. The per-side readout and the plate count update in real time. The math is the same math the mobile app runs between sets — same source, same output, just on a web page.

The whole thing runs the same plate-decomposition logic the app uses internally, so the marketing site and the app can’t drift from each other on what “250 lbs” looks like.

— Verso