Author: reelyActive
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AI has made IoT middleware irrelevant
We knew this day would come. AI has made what we do irrelevant. As of today, April 1st, 2026, reelyActive has no business stewarding open source IoT middleware. You might think it is because AI can write code better than our experienced human developers. Perhaps so, but that’s not the reason for our demise. AI…
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IoT Day
We first celebrated Internet of Things Day in 2013 when we monitored the temperature of our IoT Day beers using proprietary IoT hardware and software that we largely created ourselves. Yesterday, on “IoT Day Eve 2024” the world witnessed a rare total solar eclipse, and we monitored illuminance using an interoperable, open source IoT stack.…
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Internet of Toilets
The Internet and the sharing economy have democratised access to mobility, accommodations, and even everyday objects and commodities. So why is that by 2012, a person on-the-go could already hail their “own private driver” in minutes, yet in 2024 the promise of “your own private washroom” remains unfulfilled? The wait is over. Launching today, April…
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The Web turns 35!
The World Wide Web turns 35 years old today, March 12th 2024, and its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, expressed in an open letter the exacerbation of his concerns since the Web’s 30th anniversary, which we blogged about five years ago today. When social media dominated the headlines in 2019, in a similar open letter, he…
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