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A Summer
What I’ve been upto this summer
Apollo’s Crib (Updates)
Apollo’s Palm
Movie Monster
Tower Forever
GitGud
LambentFlex
Camerite
Angler
FeedPug
Waxx
Devendra
Apollo’s Crib
Ambient Data
Here
Now
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Every Data Source
- GTFS
- GBFS
- Air Quality
- Calendaring
- Lunar
- Tidal
- Weather
- Clocks
- Gitlab Runners
- Github Actions
- Package Tracking
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Now With
- Drought
- Pollen
- Aircraft Tracking
- Mailbox Tracking
- Exchange Rates
- Markets
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Demo
Apollo’s Palm
Apollo’s Crib
In Your Hand
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The Hardware
- LilyGo T4-S3
- ESP32-S3
- 2.41” AMOLED
- Rust + LVGL
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No Polling
- Subscribes over MQTT
- The board publishes on change
- The panel redraws when it does
- Same client as the phone
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One Card, Whole Screen
- Auto-advancing deck, tap to skip
- Type sized to the row count
- Routes in their own GTFS colours
- Stays on your card when the board changes
Movie Monster
Every Movie, Every Theater, One Place
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Live at https://monster.neiam.org
Tower Forever
3D
Multiplayer
Simtower
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DEMO at https://towerforever.com
GitGud
A Forge
Of My Own
Note: 366 commits since May 13.
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Everything A Forge Does
- Git over HTTPS + SSH
- Issues & Pull Requests
- Code Review
- Wikis
- LFS
- CI (Forgejo Actions runners)
- Packages: Containers, Python, Elixir, Rust, Debian
- Federation (ForgeFed)
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And Around It
- Android app
ggCLI- Plasma panel widget
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Hosting its own development at https://gg.neiam.co
LambentFlex
Lights
Over UDP
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Same Firmware, New Chips
- ESP32-C3 (the original)
- ESP32-C6 port
- WS2812 strands over RMT
- Over-the-air updates
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LambentFlex I2S
- LilyGo T-QT (ESP32-S3)
- MEMS microphone
- Level meter & 7-band spectrum
- Beat detection
- Published over MQTT
Camerite
Every Camera
Live
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In
- RTSP
- RTMP
- WHIP
- MJPEG
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Out
- Low-Latency HLS
- Seekable DVR archive
- LiveView dashboard
- Android app
- A LAN agent, as a .deb
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Live at https://camerite.neiam.co
Angler
Pixelfed
In Elixir
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Drop-In
- Wire-compatible with the Pixelfed app
- Mastodon-compatible core API
- Stories
- Groups
- ActivityPub federation
- Push notifications
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Live at https://angler.neiam.org
FeedPug
RSS
Together
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Features
- One newsfeed
- Feeds fetched once, however many follow them
- Groups
- Reactions
- OPML in & out
- JSON API for devices
- Android app
Waxx
Kanban
With Rules
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The Columns Are A Graph
- Draw the workflow once, on a template
- Spin up boards from it
- Cards only move along the edges
- Enforced in the UI and on the server
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Also
- Live multiplayer
- Custom fields & labels
- 2-D subboard grids
- Auto-archive
- Board history
- Android app
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Live at https://waxx.neiam.co
Devendra
Less Ansible
More Daemon
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A Tiny Ansible, Embedded
- Installs config files: quadlets, drop-ins, plain config
daemon-reloadonly when a unit changed- Starts, stops, enables, restarts services
- Idempotent: a repeat apply changes nothing
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Controller → Agents
- Desired state authored in a small web UI
- Synced to agents over iroh-docs
- Agents pull, converge, and report status back
- Shipped as a .deb, amd64 & arm64
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Adopt
- Point it at a hand-configured host
- It proposes what it finds
- Accept the files you want
- From then on, it’s managed