658: Automated Love Crunch
15 March 2026
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.
Episode 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.
- 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.
- camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.
- 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
- LFNW2026 - Back to Root
- Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40
- Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41
- Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
- 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.