A Very Nerdy Holiday Break

This week, Federico and John are back from their holiday break, included so many hardware and automation projects that this is part one of a two-part episode regarding Federico’s networked music automation setup and John’s new research tool.

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Links and Show Notes

Presenting Our Nerdy Holiday Projects

John’s Research PWA

Parallel.ai

Firecrawl

Example Club MacStories article by John where he used his research tool

How iTunes Shaped the Apple of Today

Tools John used:

FastAPI

Tailscale

LLM by Simon Willison

Feedbin

Federico’s Networked Music Library

Roon

ROCK (Roon server)

Qobuz

M4 Mac mini (Refurbished)

Terramaster F8SSD+ NAS

FiiO R9

FiiO M17 DAP

FiiO FT1 headphones

John got a FiiO Snowsky Echo Mini DAP