Scene:
The fence is almost up. Things are just about ready to be planted. The weather's finally turned nice. there will be a shed soon

Project:
For a lot of reasons, we want to have a camera system to watch the garden. Tracking critters. Detering thievery. Etc. Since this is a garden we want to do this green-style. This means as little impact on the area as we can.

The idea was put forth to use wireless bridged from Michaelson's to link the cameras. Since we're being green here we're looking at solar to power the whole arrangement. The following is the current plan:

So, I can't think of two things more diametrically opposed than gardening and IT systems engineering. One takes place in cold, dark, angry rooms filled with cables and flashing lights. The other takes place out in the sun and the rain and the fresh air.

I can definately say that these two things really don't strike me as going together. I work in (and this site runs in) a room filled with this:
On the other hand, we're talking about building something like this:

A little bit about how this is built:
This site uses the ghost engine. It lives on one of the CentOS 7 virtual machines I maintain for projects I'm interested in/working with. Said server is presenting microservice containers by way of the docker engine. The page itself is served by a node.js container and a mariadb database container. You see it by way of a traefik load balancer. I am not a web developer, nor am I graphic designer. This relatively pedestrian blog-type page is driven by what some would say is a completely overkill backend. Thems the breaks. This is what I do.

Don't ask me what struck me with the sudden desire to garden - I have no idea what I was thinking at the time, but perhaps if enough people from enough different backgrounds come together here, we can make this thing work. So, let me end with this: Hi! Its nice to meet you all. I look forward to gardening with you!

~Paul