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Millions of my fellow Texans were in crisis the week after Valentine’s day 2021. The weather was colder than it had been since Santa Anna marched his army to San Antonio, and the whole state was experiencing blackouts. But I was lucky. I had an exact record of precisely when the power shut off and was restored throughout this whole ordeal. How did this help me? It didn’t. But it was nice to know that my power outage notification system was working as intended.

This page was once for watching a single basil plant; now, it is monitoring my new indoor gardening setup. The eventual goal is to automate as much as possible, with novel soil moisture detection, water recycling, automatic fertilization, and perhaps some image recognition AI to judge overall plant health. For now, we just have an image feed thanks to a Raspberry Pi and a remarkably shitty webcam.