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1. Seasonal Architecture: Designing for Slow, Cyclical Systems

   Gardens don’t scale like apps. They follow rhythms: warm starts, unpredictable updates, built-in shutdowns. Everything from layout to watering schedule is shaped by the seasons, not the other way around.

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2. Rewilding the Stack

   We often build technology like we’re clearing land—strip it down, pave it over, install something that does one job and expects the world to adjust around it. That might make sense for servers and networks. But if we take ecology seriously, maybe it’s time to ask: What would it mean to build tech that behaves more like a forest?

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3. Sensor Drift and Dirt Truths

   There’s a lot of talk about using soil moisture sensors and other digital tools in the garden. In theory, installing a sensor should make things easier—providing objective data to guide watering and care. But the reality is often more complicated.

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4. Trying to Find the Shape of Routine

   We’re somewhere around the one-month mark now.

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5. The Bug Report: Garden Edition

   A light-hearted log of real-life garden ‘bugs’—from aphid infestations to mystery moulds—presented in the style of software bug reports, complete with severity levels, patch notes, and suggested workarounds.

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6. Failure Modes in Plants and People

   There’s a point in learning to care for plants where things start going wrong, and you don’t know why. The leaves yellow. The stems sag. The roots turn to mush. And you end up hunched over a pot of dirt, not quite sure whether the thing needs more water, less light, or just a better gardener.

   That moment feels a lot like debugging.

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