An e-ink screen on the wall with TRMNL X
How I'm using a 10.3-inch e-ink panel from TRMNL to show a daily briefing, smart home, health info and more.
Rafe Blandford
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Developer experience with TRMNL
Five e-ink screens built in one day. What made it quick was a platform built to be legible to agents.
Modernising the archive: what the search data says
Static, schema, Lighthouse to the top marks — did Google notice? Sixteen weeks of Search Console data on 145,000 modernised pages.
High standards and high humanity
The high bar and the deep care, held together; and why the best teams need both.
Loops within loops
AI doesn’t just accelerate product development; it changes the economics of feedback loops.
Living on the agentic frontier
Point capable agents at your own data for long enough and you find out which bits of the hype are real.
What a personal AI system costs
The real cost numbers for RafeOS, mid-build, and some decisions made along the way.
Agentic product development, up close
What building RafeOS with AI taught me about compression, discipline and judgement.
What it runs on
Infrastructure - a quick summary of the servers and devices running RafeOS
An agentic harness on swappable layers
A look at the agentic harness behind RafeOS. An account of what's working for me.
The second brain
How I've structured my markdown files for a shared substrate
AI-powered briefings
The layer that sits above all the modules and tells me which of them I should care about.