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Hermes Glasses: Your Own AI on Ray-Bans

2 August 20268 mins read

An open-source iOS app that puts the assistant of your choosing on Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Everything private stays on the phone.

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6 posts since 2016

— 2026

The $7,000 Decision

I landed in Boston with three months ahead of me and a budget US accommodation was about to eat alive. So I put an AI agent to work hunting vans.

— 2024

NZ Car Auctions, Part 3: Predicting Prices With XGBoost

A small side project that evolved from a simple daily crawler into a price prediction tool for New Zealand insurance auctions.

NZ Car Auctions, Part 2: Analytics With Zero Servers

What 1,100 days of NZ salvage auctions reveal, and how FindCars NZ serves interactive charts and a free JSON API from a purely static site.

NZ Car Auctions, Part 1: Building a 660,000-Record Dataset

How a small daily crawler pointed at New Zealand's insurance auctions grew into a three-year, 660,000-record public dataset.

— 2017

How the Garage Happened

How a Masters student on a tight scholarship accidentally fell into car flipping, learned to wrench, and funded a lot of skiing and surfing.

— 2016

First Car

Moving onto bigger projects - the freedom of having four wheels.