Résumé/CV: 15 years of experience doing Full stack web services. At my current position, delivered multiple data analytics products delivered to Fortune 100 companies. I am comfortable doing both legacy and greenfield work, and I enjoy building or refactoring maintainable systems so that I may move on to bigger and better things. I'm happy to provide more detail over email.
Seems like the author is planning to publish a coffee table style book and I could not find a store page for pricing information. Seems a bit early. They have a mailing list though.
Re your other questions; yeah I gather there is some experimentation involved, even with out of the box commercial products.
If others have suggestions on chips or products to buy for the household, I would greatly appreciate it! The MH-Z19 looks like an option for me. Commercial products seem too unreliable for the price.
What do you think could be nicer with a native app? More mouse or visual interactions? Modern design and gui?