Krellian Founder. W3C Invited Expert on Web Apps and the Web of Things. Previously: Mozilla & Google. https://tola.me.uk
Ben Francis
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My microblogging is split across Twitter, Mastodon and Bluesky. Twitter (I refuse to use its porn name) is full of vitriol, Mastodon is all geeks and Bluesky feels like a political bubble. Conversations feel fragmented, engagement is rock bottom and it's just not the same.
I feel like if we could just settle on one protocol (or at least bridge to the extent that it doesn't matter), bringing Mastodon and Bluesky together could really help.
I've been working on the first time setup for Krellian Hub, which involves creating a temporary Wi-Fi hotspot and captive portal, before connecting to another Wi-Fi network.
It turns out that not even Claude can figure out how to use the NetworkManager DBus API. 😩
A reminder that whilst countries fight reckless wars and set fire to gas fields and oil refineries, our climate is being pushed beyond its limits. Humans living on the surface are only experiencing 1% of the dangerous global heating. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Very excited at the prospect of the Web Thing Protocol joining a standards track at the W3C, as the "WoT Thing Protocol". This would be the next step towards standardising a universal web-based application layer protocol for the Web of Things. #WoT #IoT lists.w3.org/Archives/Pub...
I'm afraid to say this led to an hours-long debate with Gemini about the "right" way to implement MVC, where the LLM kept contradicting itself and going round in circles. It reached the point where it was literally saying one thing and then doing the opposite in its example code.
