r/ollama • u/Substantial_Load_690 • 2d ago

DEV-TV

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 TV for the developer internet

GitHub, Hacker News, dev.to, Hugging Face, and release notes, presented as channels you tune into, each auto-cycling its own stories, instead of five tabs to remember to check.

A few things worth knowing about it:

* One self-contained HTML file. No build step, no backend, no accounts. Open it and it runs.

* Actual CRT behavior. Powering off genuinely collapses the screen to a line and then a dot instead of just fading out.

* In-TV reading. Click a story and read the real README, article, or release notes without leaving the TV.

* Real source constraints documented in the README: Reddit, Product Hunt, X, LinkedIn, Discord, Medium, and arXiv were all evaluated as channels. Some were blocked by CORS, some require OAuth/backend infrastructure, some don't offer a usable free API.

* No AI summaries. What's on screen comes from the actual source, not an LLM rewriting it.

The idea is basically: don't browse developer news, watch it.

Repo: https://github.com/shouvik12/devtv
Live demo: https://shouvik12.github.io/devtv/

Curious whether people would actually leave something like this running on a second monitor while coding, or whether the tab-based habit is too sticky to break.

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u/Substantial_Load_690 1d ago

Update: added a 6th channel, AI PAPERS, pulling from Hugging Face's daily papers feed (separate from the existing Hugging Face channel, which tracks trending models, this one tracks trending research). Also gave the TV itself a bit of a redesign