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This is my 128th article on Substack, and it’s a little different. Instead of farm automation or self-hosting, I'm gonna jibber-jabber about how I became the kind of person who builds those things.
My father was an electrician, and he taug...
I’ve written a couple of articles lately about some of the dashboards I built for the farm. One lets me keep an eye on the irrigation system and shows me the schedules, valve activity, and what’s going on with it. Another is connected to my...
I’ve spent a lot of time in this series showing how I built the self-hosted piotserver infrastructure for controlling irrigation and monitoring environmental conditions on our farm. The funny part is that there is nothing particularly “farm...
I have written a lot about my home-brewed garden irrigation system. I have discussed the sensors, the custom circuit boards and software, and, Lord knows, spent far too much time talking about irrigation valves.
Now that we have the machin...
If you’ve read my series We Don’t Need No Stinking Ecosystem, then you already know that my decision to move away from Apple was about more than operating systems, phones, or applications. It was about getting...
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Adventure is where you find it.. After decades in the high tech industry, I have walked away and are now working on the stuff I like.
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