There’s a famous xkcd web-comic that shows a pile of building blocks precariously balancing on top of a single narrow brick. “All Modern Digital Infrastructure”, the pile is captioned – with the brick labelled “A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”.
The message, of course, is that our digital infrastructure is more precarious than we might think. And this is especially true in the hobbyist smart home space, with sometimes single GitHub
