Game Night: Ogle on My TV, With Our Phones as Controllers

Ogle runs on my TV now: the board on the big screen, everyone tracing words on their own phone, and a small server on the Mac mini keeping score. That’s how Netflix runs its party games, and it’s how I wanted to play Ogle with friends in the same room. Ogle already has our dictionary and our rules, and Dial already puts my own app on the TV, so game night was the piece in between: our game, on our TV, scored by our own backend. ...

October 4, 2026 · 9 min · Derek Welty

A Samsung TV App for My HDHomeRun, Built During One Football Game

There’s no HDHomeRun app in Samsung’s store, so I built one with Claude Code during a football game. The Apple TV app exists, but it lists channels like files in a folder that you click through, and my Apple TV isn’t even set up right now. I’d been watching through VLC network streams on my phone or laptop. I wanted the TV itself to behave like a TV: open on a channel, flip with Ch+ and Ch-, see what’s on. As far as I could find, that didn’t exist. (SiliconDust has a sideload-only test build on their forum that I never tried.) ...

October 4, 2026 · 10 min · Derek Welty