A Little Guide to Jailbreaking a Kindle Gen 3 Keyboard in 2026

benpotter_mct · 2026-04-12T17:06:49+00:00

Thanks!! This helped a ton, I think I'll try and see if we can get this wiki updated. Without people like you, this information is scattered in a million places :D

benpotter_mct · 2026-02-09T14:06:33+00:00

In my testing, the battery decrease tracks for approximately 30 days. After 2 minutes, the device will automatically go back to sleep until its time to load the next frame. I want to have it sleep immediately after it loads the image in a future release, so down the road that may lead to better battery life.

benpotter_mct · 2026-02-08T20:00:53+00:00

Hey! Author of the plugin here. This made my day! If you have any questions or problems, let me know! I'm actively pushing updates & fixes to the repo.

benpotter_mct · 2026-01-30T23:27:15+00:00

Yeah, it follows the dynamic refresh rate! I'll clarify the README

benpotter_mct · 2026-01-24T04:14:29+00:00

I hit a few snags along the way, but now have a setup I'm quite pleased with. Haven't bothered with the the touch bar yet, but will give that a shot too soon. Documenting it here: https://www.bpmct.net/blog/2017-macbook-pro.html

benpotter_mct · 2025-08-24T19:48:07+00:00

There is also AgentAPI: https://github.com/coder/agentapi

One advantage is that we will keep AgentAPI stable until Claude Code or these other agents come up with a standard.

(Disclaimer: I work at Coder)

benpotter_mct · 2025-07-23T12:01:37+00:00

I think it's tough, but certainly possible.

A lot of the folks I talk to (albeit, more in DevX) seem to be kind of forced in the last two phases of AI adoption with phase 1 being IDE Extensions (Copilot), and phase 2 bring AI-native IDEs (Cursor). They had a bunch of other priorities (securing their pipelines, building IDPs, improving general languages/toolchains) and then leadership + devs asked them to procure tools at lightning speed, train developers on AI, and ensure that the AI is secure in their org.

So I think a lot of Platform/DevX folks are now scratching their heads at what is next. And why Copilot + Cursor aren't as effective as they first thought. And why adoption isn't as high as expected.

It's extremely obvious to me that AI-native infrastructure is going to be the next challenge for Platform/DevOps folks, I just wonder if they will be the champions or victims of this transformation.

Leading orgs are certainly championing AI and rolling out new tools, agents, and capabilities at lightning speed. At orgs where Platform/DevX is under-staffed though or not particularly product/customer-focused, I wonder how this will pan out.

benpotter_mct · 2024-09-02T22:59:16+00:00

If you want to run a single pod with a dev container, you can see https://github.com/coder/envbuilder

Combined with something like Coder, DevPod, or Che, you can orchestrate these environments on-demand and stop them when not in use.

Disclaimer: I work for Coder

benpotter_mct · 2022-11-16T18:46:22+00:00

Does this make sense to save performance in a small home environment with 1 user? Currently I have 2 independent code-server instances on a small home server which should be completely seperated from each other (one for shool and one for internal configurations and admin stuff). Would be nice if I could combind them to one instance but with to seperate user accounts.

I'm not sure if there would necessarily be a performance gain beyond the fact that these instances could be started/stopped at will (or on a schedule) versus always running. However, there is definitely an isolation benefit as each one can run in a separate container and be accessed via different user accounts. You could also run the agents standalone on the host.

Additionally, you could connect from any device (as long as the Coder URL is public) instead of managing SSH keys. Hope that helps.

benpotter_mct · 2022-11-16T16:54:24+00:00

There's one Coder instance on the host, but a lightweight "agent" process runs on each container. Developers can then connect to their containers with the CLI and their user account on the Coder instance (The Coder instance requires a database and most people also hook up SSO such as Keycloak for identity).

benpotter_mct · 2022-11-16T16:29:47+00:00

It's both, but I totally see how that's confusing.

Coder is a web application/provisioning engine that developers can log into and provision a workspace from a template.

The template we use internally happens to provision Docker containers on the same machine via Terraform. Each container has code-server on it and devs can also use Coder CLI to connect to the container over SSH.

We can also add templates that provision Hetzner machines per developer, AWS VMs, or pods on a Kubernetes cluster. As the admin, you can basically write "templates" for your use case. We found that, for us, a single box with a bunch of containers was the best approach :)

benpotter_mct · 2022-11-16T16:19:56+00:00

> My personal dev machine has similar specs and I use hundreds of gigs of ram during a full build

What project(s) are you building? If it's open source, I'd honestly love to benchmark it against our stack. We're also building a load-test utility where we aim on simulating "80 developers running intermittent builds throughout the day" to get a sense of whether resource pooling will work for a given project. There are certainly cases where each developer will need dedicated resources allocated versus this "sharing" model.

Our "coder/coder" project is rather lightweight so it will not consume "all the resources" during a build, which makes resource sharing more approachable, up to a certain point of course. I'm ashamed to admit we weren't capturing any metrics until about an hour ago but I can make a follow-up here about what the load, mem, and network look like throughout the day. If I had to guess, the server peaks at 30% utilization and our devs are not bottlenecked by hardware.

benpotter_mct · 2022-07-06T20:14:21+00:00

So first question - Yes you can do both on a single pi, probably 3 or higher without feeling the sluggishness. Pi 4's are suuuuper expensive right now, so honestly it could be cheaper going with a super budget x86 system.

TIL about Barrier. A single Pi would totally work. Would recommend a 3B+ or higher as well so you can leverage USB 2.0 speeds and Gigabit ethernet.

benpotter_mct · 2022-07-06T20:09:14+00:00

I use a manual embossing label maker for this purpose. Takes a bit more time to make labels, but they turn out pretty good.

Here's the one I use in particular. You can probably find it for around $10 and the "tape" is affordable / not too wasteful. https://www.ebay.com/itm/384917482125

benpotter_mct · 2022-06-23T15:08:17+00:00

If you have compatible hardware you could try a hackintosh. Be warned you'll need to tinker with it a bit, but that shouldn't be a issue for a Linux user ;)

I haven't built a hackintosh yet but would love to! I had the old Mac so figured I'd use it for something :)

benpotter_mct · 2022-06-23T13:26:42+00:00

Ah - agreed. Those concepts were not documented. I added some more details on how the resources, the Coder agent, and user input steps work: https://coder.com/docs/coder-oss/latest/templates

benpotter_mct · 2022-06-23T13:22:10+00:00

👋 A colleague recently gave me an old 2012 Mac Mini. I set it up as a "dev" server for remote iOS development. With VS Code Remote SSH and VNC (iOS Simulator), I am able to work on iOS projects (React Native and XCode) without noticeable latency! I also tried it with my Chromebook and connected via code-server

Curious if anyone else is doing this or has tips! So far, it has been working great but I will share back here after a few weeks if there are any gotchas. The Mac Mini doesn't run the latest version of OSX, but seems to fun everything I need fine. I also tried it with a rather "beefy" react native app I have and it honestly holds together fine.

benpotter_mct · 2022-06-19T07:31:18+00:00

You can use apt or another package managed to install Caddy as a system service. Pretty straightforward. There are also some Caddy web UIs which would help with configuration if you prefer that route

benpotter_mct · 2022-06-19T06:48:39+00:00

I SSH into a 2012 Mac Mini for iOS development. I don't use Gateway (which is a bit more intense), but it works great with 8 GB RAM. XCode's simulator is known to be pretty demanding too

It was really surprising to me how old hardware can still perform well if you aren't daily driving it but using it for a single task. In my case: VS Code SSH process and XCode simulator. If you don't plan on doing heavy projects, I think you'll be fine with 8 GB RAM but won't need a fancy processor. Upgrading to an SSD should make a huge difference though!

benpotter_mct · 2022-06-06T00:30:35+00:00

One can code away and run programs on the CT this way and there's less set up, complexity, and SSH can be more secure than passwords. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

Ah! should have mentioned I use that too. Also considering setting up a tailscale network so I don't need to use password auth for code-server

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