Hello Gmom!: Addressing loneliness in end-of-life care
summary
A web application runs on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero duct‑taped to a TV and ingests Twilio MMS to Rails to WebSocket streams into a Rails 5 Action Cable frontend on a tiny DigitalOcean Droplet with Let's Encrypt SSL. The client is ~50 lines of JS, cycles ~40 messages at ~1 minute each, reboots daily to avoid DHCP disconnects, and demonstrably increases engagement and quality of life for a bed‑bound, mostly non‑verbal grandmother before her passing.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:17Content Warning
- 4:45Hi! My name is Jeremy.
- 17:23Loneliness Kills Us
- 19:18We found no differences between measures of objective and subjective social isolation.
- 24:52Rails is basically your grandpa's framework.
- 26:04How I Taught My Dog to Text Me Selfies
- 39:17Soothe problems for the people you love
- 40:11Not everything needs be a product
- 41:30Do what you can to protect the dignity of others
