holy crap is that in NL?

ah it is 3 degrees here

I spent some time outside, maybe because it wasn't windy it didn't feel like 3 degrees

my colleague Mark just got the 13 mini, if you'd like to ask him about it

My brother in law also has one, so I'm good. Just trying to figure out what I want / need....

https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1592111110202994747 ;)

Get a Fairphone 4 if you don't mind the android. You get 5 years of support, and spare parts will be available too. https://shop.fairphone.com/

ah nvm this is a larger phone than those two

yeah I like the small phone

I had a Fairphone 1, ironically it only lasted 4 years or so because it got too slow with Android upgrades

Still have it laying around, I hope it will be a collectors item some day ;)

Yeah, am interested too. Probably time to replace my iPhone 5s!

I got the 13 mini very recently. it's a little beast - SE feel with seemingly advanced cameras and features (which I don't care about). I'm just upset I lost the headphone jack!

@U04V15CAJ it all comes down to - are you ready to lose the home button and use face ID / gestures? My wife got the iphone 11 recently for the improved battery over the iPhone SE, and the muscle memory is gone -> no button, the notch etc.

I am currently doing an nfc project like this.

Do you have schematics/plans anywhere or are you building it from scratch?

It's a v2 of an existing one I had https://github.com/orestis/fauxvinyl

The original one was controlling the Spotify macOS app via a Mac Mini media player. The new one is going to use moode audio on a raspberry pi, via Spotify Connect. The NFC hardware luckily stays the same.

I can share more tomorrow, if I forget please feel free to ping me 🙂

So, a brief overview is this: • A bunch of NFC stickers I bought years ago on AliExpress, that I put on nice little cardboard squares of album art. • Each NFC tag has ~140bytes of memory, enough to store a Spotify ID in there, like <foo>, plus a header encoding the length. • I have a ACR122U NFC device over a USB, that can read/write to those tags

A small python program reads incoming tags, and fowards the spotify ID to the spotify API, so that it plays in a Spotify Connect device.

I used to it via a Mac Mini (macOS had native support for controlling the NFC device) using AppleScript to remotely control the Spotify App, but since moving a few times I don't want to deal with the Mac Mini anymore, so I've found moode audio that runs headless on a Raspberry Pi, and also gives me AirPlay support.

I actually got it working just this evening, using all my old tags 🙂

@U0N9SJHCH I’ve built a Phoniebox for my kids and my intention was to use Spotify, but the startup time was just too long (like a minute or so), so that I switched to the offline version. That was in 2020, perhaps they have fixed it.

Spotify offers a first-class start_playback function these days that is instantaneous it seems.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/start-a-users-playback

What I meant is that the whole system (Raspberry PI and Phoniebox stack) needed about a minute from power on to ready to read a NFC card. This is probably acceptable for an adult, but my kids want everything immediately and a minute is like forever. 😂 I see this as a big advantage of the commercial Toniebox.

Everybody in my extended family has a toniebox, but it‘s just soooo expensive and locked down… I still have ~2 years to build something, our son isn‘t old enough, yet 😅 Thanks for the links, recommendations and experience reports! I hope I can find a way to make it work with Apple Music, don‘t really need another service. I have a developer account, anyways… :thinking_face:

Does the Toniebox use Spotify?

Ah, don't mind me, I now saw what the Toniebox is...

I had it in the back of my mind to build a more rugged version of this, using a much lower-level controller and NFC reader, and probably using internal storage instead of streaming from the network. But I ran out of time 🙂

The toniebox is an inspiration, though I do hate these locked-down things.

option 3: we don't use k8s

I’d prefer that if I could change the world and print money 😛

Given that it’s all ReST, I thought there might be something available similar to cognitect AWS API.

I feel what I need to learn from the cognitect AWS API is how to turn a spec into some code w/checks really

I've just not gone through it

There’s https://github.com/xtruder/kubenix for ultimate hipster points

https://github.com/danieltanfh95/clojube ;)

We have a library at work to generate them from aero/edn files. I think it was meant to be open sourced at some point pt. I can ask tomorrow. It’s used for our own consumption and our managed kubernetes offering also uses it to generate customers clusters control plane manifests

@U050SC7SV that sounds like a nice lib/tool

not clojure, but there is kustomize built in to kubectl these days : https://kustomize.io/

I can vouch for kustomize, it is easy to work with and reliable.. other than that it's just data. Generate your yaml using Clojure, no need for a special library.

the whole point of my question was how I can not write YAML 🙂 ideally something more sane language than YAML with benefits as https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes - and indeed I can write maps and maps of stuff and generate yaml from that too. Which would be less wieldy I guess.

I do that a lot: generate config in clojure, then write yaml in the end

it's more about having validation & not having to write the boilerplate I suppose, otherwise going from edn->yaml is easy

Indeed. Writing yaml in yet another yaml doesn’t have any advantage for me 😅

yup, hand-rolling (ideally allocating a time slot without distraction or obligation). It is to practise patience and dealing with not-so-pleasant things. Something like Zen.