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The meat for the airplay side is here: https://github.com/stephen/nodetunes

Please excuse the code quality... I think I was still learning how to write js at the time.

I actually forgot that I did in fact write about this! https://medium.com/@stephencwan/hacking-airplay-into-sonos-9...

A bit light on the technical details perhaps, but I recall getting stuck on getting the right airplay parameters, learning how byte endianness works... happy to try to answer any other questions as best I can remember.

EDIT: Sorry, I realized that I didn't actually answer the other question. I first got interested in reversing from console hacking, specifically this talk about wii hacking: https://youtu.be/0rjaiNIc4W8 (including marcan of asahi linux fame!). Their group also had more writing at: https://fail0verflow.com/blog/. Also interesting to read about mgba emulator development: https://mgba.io/tag/debugging/, v8 internals: https://mrale.ph, react internals: https://overreacted.io/

Consuming a lot of literature on how different systems work helped me develop intuitions around how you might take something apart. Then it's a matter of trying things and banging your head against the wall a lot, e.g. at some point I was interested in how compilers worked so I tried hacking typescript syntax support into babel (circa 2017 maybe) - I got pretty far! and got a lot better sense of how compilers work.

A long time ago sonos didn't support apple airplay.

I did some protocol reversing and wrote a small program that pretended to be an airplay speaker to pipe audio to a sonos speaker (archive: https://github.com/stephen/airsonos)

I ended up getting recruiting messages from both the airplay team at apple and some folks from sonos. I didn't end up taking either offer, but it was also an interesting talking point when interviewing for the job I did take.

Woah, neat! It seems like we had pretty similar thinking for the kinds of workflows you'd want.

It looks like you have an Venmo integration ("Sent to Venmo" in screenshots) which I haven't quite cracked yet - curious if you're willing to talk about how it works. Tender has venmo via plaid, but it only supports importing tx, not initiating payments/requests.

I thought about either: integrating unofficially (https://github.com/mmohades/VenmoApiDocumentation) or just doing links to venmo payment (i.e. venmo.com/user?pay=500) and having some way to import venmo contacts

Neither seems great from a UX or security perspective.

Thanks for the report - I'll take a look at see what's going on. (There's some postMessage funny business there that tries to make the oauth experience nice that might be the culprit...)

You fairly trivially prove this with a network analyzer like Wireshark - just check to make sure mail requests are directly coming from and going to your mail server.