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Writing about software and the people who make it.
Notes on programming, distributed systems, and learning in public by Ajinkya Bawaskar.
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September 11, 2026 / 6 min readWatering my plants with an ESP32, MQTT and a laptop in the corner
I kept killing plants by forgetting to water them for a week at a time. I had an ESP32 and a relay in a box, so I built the thing I kept talking about: a small pump my laptop controls, with...
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