There is an e-ink display next to my keyboard telling me I have used 42.14% of my life. This is a story about hardware, AI, and why the two finally belong together.
No real convincing, I talked to their team about what I was building on it and they sent one over. Start with a private plugin that pulls one number you care about. That's how mine began, and now I look at it every day.
The Hacker News bit is the one I keep rereading. You visit the site less because the good stuff passes your desk anyway. That is a bigger claim than the hardware.
Every feed I use is built to make me browse. The moment something curates on my behalf, browsing turns into a choice instead of a habit. Same reason the deterministic dashboards failed you: same widgets, same order, every day, which lands pretty close to showing nothing.
The part I'd push on: your agent decides what to show and you can't see what it dropped. When mine started filtering my reading, the misses stayed invisible for weeks. I ended up wanting a "what you didn't see" screen more than the dashboard.
I run a version of this before I publish, checking which themes actually showed up across the people I follow. That is what snapfast.ai came out of.
This is really interesting. I want to start experimenting with hardware, although I have a feeling I am not done with software yet. :)
The idea of an agent surfacing something unexpected really resonates with me. I occasionally ask my AI to search my second brain for abandoned ideas. After reading your article, I think I might add some of those random questions and answers to my personal dashboard.
This is awesome! I have a TRMNL but haven't hacked around with it much. How'd you convince them to send you one for review?
No real convincing, I talked to their team about what I was building on it and they sent one over. Start with a private plugin that pulls one number you care about. That's how mine began, and now I look at it every day.
The Hacker News bit is the one I keep rereading. You visit the site less because the good stuff passes your desk anyway. That is a bigger claim than the hardware.
Every feed I use is built to make me browse. The moment something curates on my behalf, browsing turns into a choice instead of a habit. Same reason the deterministic dashboards failed you: same widgets, same order, every day, which lands pretty close to showing nothing.
The part I'd push on: your agent decides what to show and you can't see what it dropped. When mine started filtering my reading, the misses stayed invisible for weeks. I ended up wanting a "what you didn't see" screen more than the dashboard.
I run a version of this before I publish, checking which themes actually showed up across the people I follow. That is what snapfast.ai came out of.
This is really interesting. I want to start experimenting with hardware, although I have a feeling I am not done with software yet. :)
The idea of an agent surfacing something unexpected really resonates with me. I occasionally ask my AI to search my second brain for abandoned ideas. After reading your article, I think I might add some of those random questions and answers to my personal dashboard.