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Marder He Wrote #17

Andrew Marder

16 Apr 2026
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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

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.

By Andrew Marder 02 Jul 2026

#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

By Andrew Marder 12 Jun 2026

#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

By Andrew Marder 05 Jun 2026

#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

By Andrew Marder 23 Apr 2026
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