Maple’s first week

Maple’s Log is a log for my daughter, Maple, that my wife and I can both write to from our phones.

A page on the family website

On October 20, 2026, I added Maple’s Log to my family’s website at brooker.family/maple. Like the other family side projects there, nothing on the site linked to it.

The first version already logged nursing with a timer for each side, diapers with stool colors, sleep and growth on the WHO percentile curves, along with most of what the app tracks now. Today showed the last feed and the next side, with a darker look for 3am feeds. Its alerts for fevers, diapers and stool color were sourced from the AAP, CDC, WHO and hospital triage guides, and none of them suggested a medicine dose. From the first day, Claude and ChatGPT could connect to it and Siri shortcuts could log to it.

What changed after the first days

On October 23 I turned warnings off by default. My wife and I weren’t logging every feed and diaper, so warnings built on counts, such as feed gaps and too few wet or dirty diapers, were false alarms. They stay off unless someone switches them on. A temperature or a poop color is still checked as it’s entered. The same day I redesigned every screen without emoji. Line icons took their place, and the Timeline became one line through the day.

On October 24 I redesigned the nursing screen. Switch and Done were on both the card and the dock, there were three unlabelled start times, and adjusting the start moved the whole feed when I needed to fix when the Right started after a break. The card now shows what happened as labelled rows, the timer’s actions are in the dock, and one Fix times sheet corrects any moment of a feed. Four more rounds of fixes landed that day, covering a forgotten Done, breaks over an hour, and two phones changing the same feed at once.

On October 25 the log started counting several close feeds as a cluster, and the timer got a way to go back and forth between sides without tapping Switch each time. Family also got switches to hide Bottles and Pumping.

Its own app

On October 26 Maple moved out of the family website into its own repository, Brooker-Fam/maple, under the MIT license, at maplebaby.app. That day I also added the code for the first iPhone and Android apps, which wrap the web app and aren’t released yet, along with the chat inside the app and this site with its terms, privacy page and waitlist.

How it was built

Every commit from October 20 to October 25 lists Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, as its author or a co-author. The history is public, so anyone can read what changed and when.

One family for now

Maple still serves one family, mine. On October 26 a plan for opening it to other families went into the repository. That work is planned, and the waitlist is where to hear when it opens.