Episode 658: Automated Love Crunch

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We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned. Support Core Contributor Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32. This project adds on/off control via soldering, as the serial communication is currently read-only. It is based on the work of timmchugh11 and builds on the reverse engineering efforts of Ray Jones. Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent. Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple Home Assistant ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32 NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation. Works out of the box with Claude/Codex/OpenCode camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents to visit sites that are usually blocked chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40 | Jupiter Broadcasting Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41 | Jupiter Broadcasting Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files. Great for saving space by rough cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re-encode and thereby losing quality. LosslessCut on GitHub LosslessCut on Flathub Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models? Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

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