I spent 6 weeks building a “tap NFC card → play music” system. Could’ve just used Alexa in 30 seconds. 🤷♂️
Sometimes overengineering is the point. 🐰⚡
The unexpectedly complex rabbit holes involved in making music playback a 1-click experience – Tech, AI and productivity, by Constantin Gonzalez
All I wanted was to press a button and hear SomaFM Groove Salad through my home stereo. 🎵 What I got instead was six weeks of diving into AV receiver telnet commands, Raspberry Pi power mysteries, and…