Automated Love Crunch | LINUX Unplugged 658

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.
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Links:
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike (strike.me)
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM (fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov)
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root (linuxfestnorthwest.org) — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• github.com/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 (gitlab.com/mrjones.id.au/bluetoothheater/-/blo…)
• github.com/timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater--…
• OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent (opencode.ai)
• anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent. (github.com/anomalyco/opencode)
• Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/openrouter/hunter-alpha)
• ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple (esphome.io)
• Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)
• ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems (espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32)
• nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32 (github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware)
• NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs (espboards.dev/esp32/nodemcu-32s)
• Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board (amazon.com/AITRIP-ESP-32S-Development-Breakout…)
• github.com/theredsix/agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation.
• github.com/jo-inc/camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.
• github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
• github.com/freema/firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
• LittleFOX-MCP (gitlab.com/bytedogssyndicate1/littlefox-mcp) — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
• Chrome DevTools MCP Debug (developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp-…) — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session
• LFNW2026 - Back to Root (linuxfestnorthwest.org)
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40 (jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/jupiter-extras/40)
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41 (jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/jupiter-extras/41)
• Pick: LosslessCut (mifi.no/losslesscut) — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
• LosslessCut on GitHub (github.com/mifi/lossless-cut)
• LosslessCut on Flathub (flathub.org/en/apps/no.mifi.losslesscut)
• Pick: CanIRun.ai (canirun.ai) — Can your machine run AI models?
• Pick: llmfit (github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit) — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.