#19: liberating a small piece of personal data

I'm back! I fell off my blogging habit for a bit, hope you didn't miss me too much. This week I set up a Python package eufree that reads weight measurements from my Eufy smart scale and sends the result to a custom TRMNL plugin for graphing on my jailbroken Kindle Oasis. Hack the planet!

If that sounded like gibberish, you might be interested in some of my earlier posts:

TRMNL: e-ink dashboard
Winterbreak: how I jailbroke my Kindle
peloterm: my first time using Bleak (a Python package for communicating with Bluetooth devices)

Hope you're having a nice week!

# 21: My second brain, Ghost spam struggles, and Formbricks

Since the last time I wrote, a lot has happened: * I read "Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential" by Tiago Forte, which is quite good. I wrote a follow-up post describing how I use my second brain.

#20: Replacing ChatGPT with Open WebUI

I've been using ChatGPT periodically for the past few years. Chatting with an LLM is generally a faster way to get answers to my questions than searching the internet. Just as I don't want Google to have my search data, I don't want OpenAI

#18: a mini e-reader and a mini manifesto

This week, I played around with the Xteink X4. It's a fun little gadget but it's not displacing my Kindle. My full review is here. I also wrote a short post describing my motivation for blogging. It's a little political, I want power to

Marder He Wrote #17

This past week, I updated my TRMNL post, and open sourced a TRMNL client for Kindle focused on battery life. I also ordered myself an Xteink X4 that I'm excited to tinker with. Let's go e-ink!

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# 21: My second brain, Ghost spam struggles, and Formbricks

#20: Replacing ChatGPT with Open WebUI

#18: a mini e-reader and a mini manifesto

Marder He Wrote #17