The low-engineering solution to this problem is to trade the non-cat-edible plant with a neighbor for another plant. That solution wouldn’t be a blog post on HN though.

For a hobby project, over engineered is just the right level of engineered! I’m guessing the creative phase is at least as important to the author as the solution to the problem.

We are reading and discussing this only because it made it to HN which it did only because it is over engineered.