A Very Nerdy Holiday Break
Jan 11, 2026•48 min•Season 1Ep. 467
Episode description
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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- John’s Research PWA
- Parallel.ai
- Firecrawl
- Example Club MacStories article by John where he used his research tool
- Tools John used:
- 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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