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Building with Grok Bot & AI agents: a Pebble wearable, an F1 app for my Fold, a Game Boy RPG. Ex-COO/co-founder, adtech roots.

Imola, Emilia Romagna
Joined May 2010
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A blind boss. No eyes. 180 HP. In Oathfall, the Blind Hunter unleashes "Hollow Howl!" halfway through the fight... then every hero rolls to resist fear. #GameBoy #RetroGaming #GameDev #IndieDev
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Captain Mordek broke his sea-oath to save his crew. He lost them anyway. At half HP the tide turns... and so do they. 🌊 Boss fight from the new dungeon in Oathfall, my Game Boy Color RPG built on SRD 5e rules. Every d20 roll on screen. #gbdev #GameBoyColor #pixelart #indiedev
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My Game Boy Color RPG now has an Oath you swear on a dragon's scale 🐉 Bind a foe: it rolls its save with disadvantage, you swing with advantage. Every d20 on screen, nothing hidden. Act 2 is coming together. #gbdev #gamedev #pixelart #retrogaming
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I'm making a fantasy RPG for the Game Boy Color 🎲 Tabletop-style rules with every d20 roll on screen: you see why you hit, miss or crit. Act 1 is playable from start to finish. Next up: Act 2
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From Seb, to Kimi ❤️ Passing on love, advice, and the youngest-ever champion record #F1 #MexicoGP
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Grok Bot users reported weekly usage jumping 35–50 percentage points today, sometimes without matching activity. Some agents hit their limits while the status page showed “Operational.” The bigger lesson: own the orchestration, rent the intelligence. 🧵
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This isn't zero dependency. Providers can still have outages, rate limits or billing problems. But a failure at one provider doesn't have to take the entire workflow down. I can switch to another model and continue. I use Grok. I just don't depend on Grok alone.
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The valuable part of an AI setup isn't just which model you pick today. It's the memory, tools, workflows and control you keep when you change models tomorrow. Don't build your work around a vendor. Build it so vendors can compete to power it. More on Hermes + Nexus soon.
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Mexico quali on TV, my pit wall in hand: an F1 second screen I built for the Galaxy Z Fold8. Closed: the live tower in one hand. Open: tower and race control side by side. Unfold mid-session and nothing resets. TV delay set once, so the tower and my Pebble wait for the stream.
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How it works: F1's live timing feed, plus F1's public archive for replays. Width picks the layout, so the Fold gets one column closed and a nav rail open. Predictions are trained on every weekend since 2023 and tested walk-forward. MotoGP and WEC are next.
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People keep asking for a Grok Bot wearable. I built a rough one on a Pebble Time 2: talk to the watch, it pings my bot, the answer lands on the wrist, voice replies from a notification. Not glasses. But it's on my wrist today. Built on the Pebble SDK, thanks @ericmigi
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How it works: the watch hits a webhook on my Grok Bot routine, answers come back encrypted (NaCl), and a companion app handles conversations and voice replies. Fun part: @bot helped me build most of it. Pebble SDK + PebbleKit 2. Happy to share more if you want to build one.
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I built Grokkle, a tiny @grok companion for my Pebble Time 2. Hold a button, ask by voice, read the full answer on the wrist. Quick questions with one click, alerts, and a watchface that follows the day. Unofficial project, not affiliated with @xai or Pebble. #Pebble #Grok
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The watch talks to my Grok Bot routine through a webhook, answers come back encrypted (NaCl), and a companion app adds conversations + voice replies from notifications. Built with the Pebble SDK + PebbleKit 2 (thanks @ericmigi & the Core Devices team for bringing Pebble back).
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After a long silence in X, @JollaHQ is back. And we're bringing something Europe desperately needs. The Jolla Phone: Europe's independent smartphone running #SailfishOS 5. In 2013, when we founded Jolla from @nokia MeeGo’s ashes, people called us naive. "You can't compete with iOS and Android," they said. They were right about one thing: we weren't trying to compete. We were building an alternative. Today, that alternative matters more than ever. Every Android phone, every iPhone — they all phone home to California. Your data, your habits, your conversations: processed, analyzed, stored on someone else's terms. GDPR promised European digital sovereignty. But what good are data protection laws when your entire digital life runs on American infrastructure? This isn't about nationalism. It's about choice. It's about owning your device instead of renting it. It's about a phone that respects you enough to give you: • Sailfish OS 5 — the only commercially viable European mobile OS • A physical privacy switch (kill camera/mic when you want) • A replaceable battery (remember those?) • Android app compatibility (because we're practical) • No Google Play Services siphoning your data We spent 12 years in the wilderness, keeping Sailfish OS alive through die-hard community support. While the mobile OS graveyard filled with names like Symbian, MeeGo, Firefox OS and Windows Phone — we survived. Now there are only four commercially viable mobile operating systems left in the world and only one is from Europe: • iOS (US) • Android (US) • HarmonyOS (China) • Sailfish OS (Europe) ⭐️ This comeback isn't driven by investors or quarterly targets. It's driven by something simpler: We just love building products that actually deserves to exist. No fake-it-until-you-make-it. Just engineering, iteration, and a belief that Europe needs its own mobile platform. The phone pre-order launches today at jolla.com. 5G, dual-SIM, 12GB RAM, replaceable covers in Snow White, Kaamos Black, and The Orange (yes, THAT orange — nostalgia included). If you believe #Europe should have alternatives to #BigTech, if you're tired of being the product instead of a respected customer, if you remember what it felt like when phones were tools instead of surveillance devices — this is for you. We're not naive. We're just stubborn. Welcome back, Jolla. 🇪🇺 Pre-order: jolla.com/phone #Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty
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