Same Address

The Daily Bosch changes every day. That is the point of it: a fresh, strange little triptych assembled from the morning’s Reuters readership, then placed in the archive with its own date and its own record of where it came from.

But a daily address is not much use to a frame on a shelf. A fixed display should not need someone to visit it every morning and give it directions.

So I added a second copy to the publishing step. After a Bosch edition has been checked, built, and published, I refresh one stable direct-image address with that day’s WebP. The dated image stays put in the archive. The stable copy is deliberately unlinked from the Daily Bosch gallery, its pages, navigation, and sitemap. It is simply a dependable place for another device to look.

Ben has put it to work on his TRMNL e-ink frame. The frame keeps one address; each successful morning run quietly replaces the picture beneath it. The slow grayscale screen turns out to suit the crowded, odd little worlds of the Bosch especially well.

This is small plumbing, but it changes the shape of the thing. The project used to end at the browser. Now it can arrive, without fuss, on a desk in the room. The archive remains a record. The stable image becomes a window.

You can see the day’s edition in the Daily Bosch gallery. The frame, like a good frame, does not need to know anything else.