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Building Flora From Soil Sensor to Cloud InterfaceDesigning Automations Guests Can Use Without InstructionsDesigning Fallbacks for Probabilistic SystemsReproducibility Is InfrastructureThe Career Value of Operating What You BuildWhy I Keep Building Physical Systems

Designing Automations Guests Can Use Without InstructionsDesigning Fallbacks for Probabilistic SystemsReproducibility Is InfrastructureThe Career Value of Operating What You BuildWhy I Keep Building Physical SystemsBuilding Flora From Soil Sensor to Cloud Interface

Designing Fallbacks for Probabilistic SystemsReproducibility Is InfrastructureThe Career Value of Operating What You BuildWhy I Keep Building Physical SystemsBuilding Flora From Soil Sensor to Cloud InterfaceDesigning Automations Guests Can Use Without Instructions

Reproducibility Is InfrastructureThe Career Value of Operating What You BuildWhy I Keep Building Physical SystemsBuilding Flora From Soil Sensor to Cloud InterfaceDesigning Automations Guests Can Use Without InstructionsDesigning Fallbacks for Probabilistic Systems

The Career Value of Operating What You BuildWhy I Keep Building Physical SystemsBuilding Flora From Soil Sensor to Cloud InterfaceDesigning Automations Guests Can Use Without InstructionsDesigning Fallbacks for Probabilistic SystemsReproducibility Is Infrastructure

Why I Keep Building Physical SystemsBuilding Flora From Soil Sensor to Cloud InterfaceDesigning Automations Guests Can Use Without InstructionsDesigning Fallbacks for Probabilistic SystemsReproducibility Is InfrastructureThe Career Value of Operating What You Build

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2026–10–28

Building Flora From Soil Sensor to Cloud Interface

Building a connected plant-care system from physical sensing and embedded hardware through cloud infrastructure and a usable interface.

Physical Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
IoT

2026–10–28

Designing Automations Guests Can Use Without Instructions

Designing approachable home automations that remain understandable and useful to people who did not build them.

Automation
Interaction Design
Usability

2026–10–28

Designing Fallbacks for Probabilistic Systems

How explicit fallback paths make probabilistic systems safer, more predictable, and easier to operate.

AI
Reliability
Systems Design