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This is great. If of interest, please consider adding Hubble Networks's scanning gateway SDK to your devices in the future (https://hubble.com). Happy to chat privately about what incentives there may be available especially at logistics warehouses.
Re:The Quiet Resurgence of RF Engineering on Monday April 27, 2026 @08:37PM (#47929090)
You're right, and Hubble Network (https://hubble.com) is proof. We make commodity Bluetooth LE chips talk to satellites. That required antenna design and link budget work no software abstraction would fix.

Hubble does the deep RF work so that firmware engineers building IoT devices never have to.

Could you share a little more about your involvement with VictoriaMetrics? A good faith disclosure goes a long way.

Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-a-high-volume-metrics-pipeline-with-opentelemetry-and-vmagent-c714d6910b45

Full disclosure - I formerly worked for Grafana Labs.The size of this Grafana Mimir deployment would rank it in the top echelon of customers. The irony is that this may be a $0 revenue user for Grafana Labs.

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Re:Sending Data over Offline Finding Networks on Monday January 19, 2026 @07:35PM (#46686500)
Hubble Network (https://hubble.com) is building something similar - an open, global BLE network.

Both let you transmit arbitrary data, but the custom setup here is a lot of overhead. Hubble gives you an SDK and lets you get back to building your device.

Re:x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:27AM (#45348414)
Anchor Browser has documentation here showing how to combine x402 with an agentic browser session.

https://anchorbrowser.io/blog/pay-to-win-coinbase-x402-ancho...

We are not far off from humans giving a monthly allowance to their agentic counterparts.

Awesome product! Although Trigger.dev is fully capable, if you want to skip installing the browser infra and offload it to a remote session, I wrote a tutorial recently on how to use Anchor Browser with Trigger.dev to achieve this: - https://trigger.dev/docs/guides/example-projects/anchor-brow... - https://anchorbrowser.io/blog/integrate-trigger-dev-and-anch...

Looking forward to tracking Trigger.dev's success in the future.

I recently ran a test on the page load reliability of Browserbase and I was shocked to see how unreliable it was for a standard set of websites - the top 100 websites in the US by traffic according to SimilarWeb. 29% of page load requests failed. Without an open standard for agent identification, it will always be a cat and mouse game to trap agents, and many agents will predictably fail simple tasks.

https://anchorbrowser.io/blog/page-load-reliability-on-the-t...

Here's to working together to develop a new protocol that works for agents and website owners alike.

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There's a term for this: an inconvenient truth.

Cheap and abundant energy is strongly correlated with prosperity. Every barrel of oil produces roughly 1,700 kWh of thermal energy. In countries with low cost of oil production like Saudi Arabia and Iran, that means electricity generation for less than $0.01/kWh. The only viable technology to compete with oil and gas over the long term is Nuclear.

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