Engineering
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Notes on building with AI, systems thinking, and whatever else is interesting.
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- 2026-09-14 BLE Sensor Platforms — Flash & Stream
A live tracker of commodity Bluetooth hardware judged on one axis: can you replace the firmware and stream sensor data off it.
- 2026-09-14 Broadcast Video Links
Open-firmware video transmitters that broadcast raw 802.11 instead of serving RTSP — OpenIPC, wfb-ng and Ruby FPV on SigmaStar silicon. The untethered, moving, multi-camera end of the camera question.
- 2026-08-31 Authentic Relating & Circling
A live tracker of Authentic Relating (AR) practice groups, Circling groups, and the wider conscious-community/personal-growth meetup scene, centered on Madison and Milwaukee, WI.
- 2026-08-31 Scriptable Sex Tech
A live tracker of adult hardware that can be driven from your own code — published protocols, local SDKs, reverse-engineering work, and which devices are still app-only prisons.
- 2026-08-21 Software Factories
A live tracker of how software actually gets made by fleets of models — how work is cut into pieces small models can finish, who holds the plan, what catches a worker that reports success without doing the work, and what is left of scrum when implementation is minutes and nearly free.
- 2026-08-18 Open & Hackable AI Pendants
A live tracker of always-listening wearables — pendants, pins, clips and ear-worn capture — scored on whether you can get the raw audio and sensors off them when the vendor goes away.
- 2026-08-18 AI Programming
A live tracker of how software actually gets written with machines — coding agents, interactive pairing, multi-agent orchestration, and whether any of it measurably helps.
- 2026-08-18 Freestanding Birth Center Viability
A live tracker of the economics keeping midwifery-led birth centers open or closing them — reimbursement, malpractice, licensure, and the closure wave reshaping US community maternity care.
- 2026-08-18 Consumer Wearables You Can Still Own The Data From
A live tracker of clean, retail-grade fitness bands, smartwatches and smart rings — ranked by whether you can get your own data off them, and how.
- 2026-08-18 Open Smart Glasses
A live tracker of open and hackable smart glasses — developer-facing frames, the OSes that run them, and DIY camera-glasses projects.