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My kids have a few podcasts that they love to listen to, but they were unable to use their Yoto players to listen to them so they often had to use the smart speakers in the house, or would need us to play them on the radio in the car.

It was possible to manually download episodes and then construct a Yoto Make-Your-Own (MYO) playlist, but we had to keep coming back to it every time a new episode was released.

This was my first attempt at vibe-coding something from scratch. I've got a few decades of programming experience and strong opinions about the "right" way to do things, but I did my best to let it handle everything (though I did guide it to pick tech my preferred tech). It was able to essentially one-shot an implementation from the initial requirements which was impressive. After that I started adding features for my own QoL (UI improvements, multiple podcasts on a single playlist, etc.)

The majority of the work that I did was creating and managing credentials, and guiding it through what my home-server config looked like to make it easy for me to deploy.

All-in-all, very satisfied with the result. It makes my kids and wife happy, and saves us some time. I'm glad I was able to accomplish this and didn't need to spend much time hacking around with auth systems and figuring out auto-reconnect schenanigans, but it does feel a little empty inside. Hopefully someone else will find this useful as well and that'll make it up to me!

I found at least three counties using that hosting provider by just clicking around randomly, so I’m not sure what the context is for that comment.

Petit-Val (BE) and Evolène (VS) are two.

What do you mean by maintaining social channels? Is that stuff like liking photos, sharing links to a LinkedIn profile, or what?

Any specific admin tasks it’s done really well at?

In the context of the article de-appling is what you should do after de-googling.

I think it’s a stretch to say the author is blaming Apple in the title and she explicitly calls out in the very first section:

> But I will say that the shutdown of ADP is Apple being on the right side of the geopolitical fight, as inconvenient as that may be to you and me.

Because you can’t search that without physically looking at each box. There could be a bunch odd reasons that many boxes remain unpacked; downsizing, temporary housing. It’d be nice to be able to finds the one thing you need (you could even label the issue with the box location!).

Anyway, a fun solution but I think it’s more effort than I would have been willing to put in even if I would have appreciated the outcome.

I think it’s less that they “WANT” more people to get HIV but instead they do know that doing this type of thing will cause more cases and they’re fine with it because “gods will” and a bigger plan and all that.

Can you help me understand your point of view a little bit more? I’ve been working for decades in C# professionally with a few stints in other languages and plenty of smaller side projects in any number of different ecosystems. I always find myself frustrated with “the experience” of working with many other languages. They all have their own pros and cons of course, but saying you don’t like the language because it doesn’t have sum types feels like saying you don’t like a Prius because it doesn’t have a pickup bed. Not a perfect analogy, but there are so many other features of C#’s type system that make it amazing to work with and it’s continually being improved year over year. I would be interested in knowing what types of things about the generics system you wish could be improved.

All officers are employees, but not all employees are officers. C-suite employees are all officers at least. I’m not sure how far below that it expands.

But the very last line says they wouldn’t trust this feature and they have a Monzo account?

You’ve glossed over the most complicated part of this: “give it to Amazon”. There are so many things involved in that portion of the process that an internet enabled garage door solves, most importantly: not having a single code that can be used by anybody at any point in time until I manually go back and remove it.