// Beach Face
I made an e-paper screen that tells me whether it’s worth a swim. It shows the sea temperature, the waves, the tide, the air, and whether any sewage outfalls nearby are spilling. Next to all that is a simple face. Happy, flat or sad. And a two-line phrase, like GET YOUR / COSSIE ON, written by one of the language models that make up Pan on my Mac mini. It’s called Beach Face, a nod to the Resting Beach Face T-shirt from Harbour & Tide, my partner’s business.
// Tick - A New Home for Pan
This is a follow-up to Introducing Pan, which covers how Pan works and their first home on my desk. The whole point of owning my own AI infrastructure, end to end, is that I can play with it. Try out new ideas as I have them, with nobody else’s roadmap or agenda in the way. Pan has moved into an alarm clock. It’s a long, thin strip of a screen that shows the time, wakes me up, sets timers, tells me the time in Tokyo and answers questions about my notes.
// Introducing Pan
There’s a small screen on my desk now. Hold it, ask it something, let go, and it answers out loud, in a different voice for every sentence. Ask about the sea, and it reads off real numbers from the Thanet Beach Conditions experiment already running on this site. Ask it to check my notes, and it searches my Obsidian vault for the answer. The more I write, the more it knows.
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