Episode Details

When Joey decided to build a smart calendar display, he ended up with something beautifully unhinged: a system that controls the TV by sending it JPEG photographs instead of web pages. This episode explores the philosophy of working within a device's constraints—when the front door is locked, find the door the device already leaves open. 00:00:00 - The midnight project: Joey's "I could totally do that" moment 00:01:30 - Five-minute pivot: abandoning the Raspberry Pi plan 00:03:00 - How the TV blocks you: understanding device constraints 00:04:33 - Three workarounds: choosing between bad options 00:06:10 - A Rube Goldberg machine that actually works 00:07:41 - The cost of photographs: refresh rates and updates 00:09:18 - Aggressively charming engineering 00:10:57 - Trust the screen, not the preview 00:12:38 - What we still don't know This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.