Around 2010 I started getting into Halloween decorating as a hobby, and this is the result. We probably get at least 200 kids (big and small) through the neighborhood on the big night. I’ve had som...

My wife asked me, “what’s the point of so many data centers?” I didn’t have a great answer off the top of my head, so I put it to Claude — and ended up in a back-and-forth that pushed back on its o...

In 2020 I was part of a small team building a proof-of-concept desalination system designed to run fully submerged in the ocean, roughly 1,000 feet down. I wasn’t responsible for the desalination h...

Strongman bag-toss events are usually scored by a judge watching a sandbag arc over a bar. We replaced the judge with a column of beam sensors, two I²C port expanders, and a string of repurposed tr...

Welcome to my new blog. This is a placeholder post — more to come soon.