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Matt Healy
Personal blog · matthealy.comdesignprogrammingweb
Matt Healy's personal blog at matthealy.com covers design, programming and web. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Your Next Smart Home Device is a $30 Used Kindle”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its guide to converting an old Kindle 4 into a display for web content. One commenter says they built a similar setup from it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m a designer & front-end engineer, co-founder of Iterate, and the creator of the iOS app Input. I write about prototyping, front-end development, and design.
Most-linked posts?
- Your Next Smart Home Device is a $30 Used Kindle3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-28
What Hacker News says?
I found this guide to converting an old Kindle 4 to display anything from the web super useful. https://matthealy.com/kindle I bought another 3 used kindles for $20 each after getting it to work.
Comment linking /kindle
on “Building an e-ink weather display for our home”Submitted Your Next Smart Home Device is a $30 Used Kindle as a story · 107 points
HN discussionI followed this guide and was able to do almost exactly that: https://matthealy.com/kindle
Comment linking /kindle
on “Hacking eInk Price Tags (2021)”Submitted Your next smart home device is a $30 used Kindle as a story · 56 points
HN discussion