Alexander Klöpping

Some background on the backend for those who are interested. It's built on Laravel and hosted in a Google Cloud Run container and has the following workflow for content aggregation and presentation: Step 1: Every four hours, our scheduler fetches the top stories from Hacker News. Step 2: For the top story, we combine the title of the post with a specific prompt ("high-contrast black-and-white...

I'm a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper's front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite daily newspaper prominently displayed on his wall, I was a bit jealous. So, I worked with a e-ink company called Visionect in Slovenia to build a version that comes...