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

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