Why the Hosts Spent the Holidays on Nerd Projects

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

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