Media playback

Sometimes, I just don’t know when to quit. I have a pretty solid stack now up through hardware, and yet my Claude subscription hits the weekly reset and I’ve got all these Fable credits to burn. So I start thinking about that whole-home A/V octopus again.

And I really love Kubernetes, by the way, if you couldn’t tell. It’s one of my favorite pieces of software ever. My top four probably go Linux, Kubernetes, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Tried and true, battle-tested systems with clean abstractions and ruthlessly focused on performance and stability. In a lot of ways, liken is my love letter to Linux and Kubernetes.

After the last week or two, there’s an up-and-comer that’s really got my attention: mpv. What a system! Plays literally anything, and you can script the UI with Lua, and you can drive the play over a domain socket. It’s the perfect foundation for a media system following the Linux and Kubernetes ethos.