Standing up Project Norman
Getting the cloud half of a home plant-monitoring system live on a $4-a-month GCP box - MQTT over TLS, a schema contract with the firmware, and two bugs that only showed up once it was real.
Writing
Working notes. Mostly what broke, what fixed it, and what I would do differently.
Running Assistax without a cluster
What it took to reproduce a JAX/MJX multi-agent assistive-robotics benchmark on a gaming laptop, and where that stopped being enough.