The TRMNL Diaries

A few weeks ago, my TRMNL X arrived. If you’re not familiar with this device, it’s basically a little e-ink screen which shows a rotation of updating information screens. I mostly use mine for family calendars, trivia, and “word of the day” screens, but when it arrived, I felt a strong urge to have a go at making a few plugins of my own. It’s been an interesting experience that differed a bit from what I expected, so I decided to write about it. The plugins I’ve madeSo first up, this is what I actually made. I made three plugins, all following the same base architecture with a fair amount of shared code/concepts.The first is “TRMNL Mod Analytics”, an analytics plugin, displaying download counts for mods published on various game modding platforms. While I personally don’t really care much about the download counts of my own projects, it felt like a natural fit for the device and a good first plugin idea to make. I initially focused on the mod sites I was familiar with from my time…