Touch Grass Planner: A local Gemma model that picks your next 30 minutes outside

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>The hardest part of taking a break outdoors is often decision fatigue: you need to pick somewhere, check the weather, see if you have time, and you end up scrolling on your phone instead of heading outside.</p> <p>The repository is called <strong>blaze-and-back</strong> after the blaze markers painted on hiking trails and the concept of an outing that comfortably fits a time budget. On DEV, it i

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>The hardest part of taking a break outdoors is often decision fatigue: you need to pick somewhere, check the weather, see if you have time, and you end up scrolling on your phone instead of heading outside.</p> <p>The repository is called <strong>blaze-and-back</strong> after the blaze markers painted on hiking trails and the concept of an outing that comfortably fits a time budget. On DEV, it i

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>The hardest part of taking a break outdoors is often decision fatigue: you need to pick somewhere, check the weather, see if you have time, and you end up scrolling on your phone instead of heading outside.</p> <p>The repository is called <strong>blaze-and-back</strong> after the blaze markers painted on hiking trails and the concept of an outing that comfortably fits a time budget. On DEV, it i

Evidence

Touch Grass Planner: A local Gemma model that picks your next 30 minutes outside

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