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It Isn't The Emdashes — It's The Words: 32 Ways Your Writing Looks Like an AI Wrote it
We all know people use AI to write their texts. And we all know they tend to have a similar feel to them. There is something with tho...
Can we Vibe Code a Smart Home Device with Matter?
In IoT, Matter, AI, Apr 27, 2026Whose Problem Are We Solving? A Question That Cuts Through The Fog
In Startups, Ideas, Mar 23, 2026Sometimes Your Device Is Alive But Is Actually Dead
In IoT, Programming, Feb 24, 2026Protothreads Receives ACM SenSys Test of Time Award
I am thrilled and honored to announce that the paper “Protothreads: Simplifying event-driven programming of memory-constrained embedd...
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It Isn't The Emdashes — It's The Words: 32 Ways Your Writing Looks Like an AI Wrote it
We all know people use AI to write their texts. And we all know they tend to have a similar feel to them. There is something with those texts that makes them look like other texts. We...
In AI, Just for Fun, May 03, 2026Can we Vibe Code a Smart Home Device with Matter?
Developing a smart home product takes serious effort. Can AI make it easier? Let’s try to vibe code a working prototype of a smart home product with the Matter smart home standard, wh...
In IoT, Matter, AI, Apr 27, 2026Whose Problem Are We Solving? A Question That Cuts Through The Fog
Most product ideas fail because nobody needed them in the first place. And by the time we figured that out, it may be too late.But there is a simple question that can cut through that...
In Startups, Ideas, Mar 23, 2026Sometimes Your Device Is Alive But Is Actually Dead
A hardware watchdog timer is a standard mechanism for embedded systems.The idea is simple: a countdown timer that resets the microcontroller unlessthe firmware explicitly resets it. I...
In IoT, Programming, Feb 24, 2026Stress-Testing 100+ Bluetooth Beacons (so the Team Can Sleep Well at Night)
How do we make sure our Bluetooth beacon system works with hundreds of devices in the same room? We built a testbed with 100+ nRF52840-based beacons, stress-testing firmware, OTA upda...
In IoT, Bluetooth, Oct 06, 2025A Personal, Portable Laugh Track (A Lesson in AI Coding)
This was a ridiculous idea I had one day: wouldn’t it be fun to have a personal, portable laugh track – you know, like in those old sitcoms where there would be a canned laughter afte...
In Programming, Just for Fun, Aug 19, 2024How to Use git diff with an sqlite3 Database
If we have a git repository where there is a binary sqlite3 file, it is difficult to see what changed by only using a git diff command. But there is a neat git trick (learned from her...
In Programming, Jul 11, 2024How to Build a Profitable IoT Product
The slides from my talk at the March 2024 IoT meetup in Stockholm, Sweden. I don’t think the talk was streamed or recorded.
In Ideas, Startups, IoT, Mar 30, 2024Video: Don't Wait for the IoT Standard
My talk from the Emerging Tech Beat conference from 2020, so a few years old by now, and the sound has problems during the first few minutes, but interesting to see what has changed, ...
In Ideas, IoT, Feb 01, 2024A Simple Way to Pitch Ideas
Pitching ideas is hard. This makes ideas die too early – even brilliant ones. Here is a simple way to pitch ideas, which I have chosen to call “Procosoco” despite it being a somewhat ...
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