Digital Garden 🌴

Phil

Welcome to my Garden, where I explore the intersection of digital and physical realms - and share the seeds that led me there.

  1. November 3, 2026 · 10 min · EN · DE

    Digital Sovereignty as a Designer

    "To design is to be 'in charge' - to be the architect of an experience. But how much authority do we actually have when our entire digital existence is hosted in a controlled environment we didn't build and don't own?"
  2. September 28, 2026 · 5 min

    Between Noodles and Wires: How AI is Democratizing Hardware Design

    How moving past screenshots and feeding raw KiCad files to an LLM helped me break out of the breadboard prototyping phase and manufacture a custom PCBA on the road.