Zach Sobell
A working notebook for three things I keep coming back to: what I grow, what I fix, and what I build. Written down mostly so I can find it again.
Sections
Beds, seasons, and what actually grew
Gardening
What I planted, how I grew it, and how the season turned out.
Projects around the house
Home Improvement
Repairs, builds and renovations — what each one involved and how it came out.
Publications, patents and research
Professional
Peer-reviewed publications and patents, mostly in thin film deposition and superhard materials.
Errata
Projects
Smaller builds and experiments that do not sit under another heading.
Recent
- Publications and patentsPeer-reviewed articles and patents in thin film deposition and superhard materials, each linked to the source.
- Why this site is staticThe reasoning behind building on Astro and hosting on Cloudflare instead of running a CMS.
- Replacing the Ring doorbellSwapping a Ring doorbell for a dumb button, a Shelly relay, and a Home Assistant notification — one half of a two-part replacement.
- Hydroponic bell peppersHungarian Rounds in coco, drain to waste, in a tent that runs itself between weekly nutrient mixes.
- Wiring the house for networkingSome UniFi cameras turned into pulling cable through ceilings, floors and walls — most of which I had never done before.