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The Golioth Developer Blog
Company blog · blog.golioth.iosystemshardwareprogramming
The Golioth Developer Blog is the company blog at blog.golioth.io, writing about systems, hardware and programming. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “Posting to Bluesky from a Microcontroller”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Golioth's developer blog for embedded device topics: USB support in WSL2 with a GUI, using Wi-Fi location geofences via APIs, and AI features for embedded developers. Comments only link to posts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Posting to Bluesky from a Microcontroller2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-21
- A $2 Geofence with an ESP32-C32 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-26
- WebAssembly on Zephyr2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-30
- Golioth for AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-06
- Life of a CoAP Message2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-29
What Hacker News says?
there is GUI program to automatic this progress[1] I have been using WSL to develop Firmware in Zephyr, no problem so far. [1]: https://blog.golioth.io/usb-support-in-wsl2-now-with-a-gui/
Comment linking /usb-support-in-wsl2-now-with-a-gui/
on “The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source”Submitted The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators as a story · 181 points
HN discussionA while back I used it to glue together a bunch of APIs to make a geofence on top of a WiFi location service my company offers. Super easy to prototype external computation without something like severless/lambda (which would be the likely path for production) https://blog.golioth.io/a-2-geofence-wi-fi-location-here-com...
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on “N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams”Submitted NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices as a story · 180 points
HN discussionAn ad for... the IETF? All of the firmware discussed in this post is open source, and we even contributed DTLS Connection ID server side support to a popular open source library [0] so other folks can stand up secure cloud services for low power devices. Sure, we sell a product, but our broader mission is making the increasing number of internet connected devices more secure and reliable. When sharing knowledge and…
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on “NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices”Submitted All Golioth Hardware Is Now Open Source as a story · 62 points
HN discussionAuthor of this post here -- thanks for sharing your experience! One thing I'll agree with immediately is that if you can afford to power down hardware that is almost always going to be your best option (see a previous post on this topic [0]). I believe the NAT post also calls this out, though I believe I could have gone further to disambiguate "sleeping" and "turning off": > This doesn’t solve the issue of cloud to…
Comment linking /turn-off-subsystems-remotely-to-reduce-power-usage-with-golioth-and-joulescope/
on “NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices”Submitted We tried to debug a microcontroller from our browser as a story · 21 points
HN discussionYes! The JSON library I wrote for the Zephyr RTOS does this. Say, for instance, you have the following struct: struct SomeStruct { char *some_string; int some_number; }; You would need to declare a descriptor, linking each field to how it's spelled in the JSON (e.g. the some_string member could be "some-string" in the JSON), the byte offset from the beginning of the struct where the field is (using the offsetof() ma…
Comment linking /how-to-parse-json-data-in-zephyr/
on “Love C, hate C: Web framework memory problems”Submitted NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices as a story · 18 points
HN discussionCEO of Golioth here - we recently launched a whole suite of AI features for embedded device developers (with Hugging Face and more) - check out the launch details at https://blog.golioth.io/golioth-for-ai/
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on “Using the Hugging Face Inference API for Device Audio Analysis”Submitted A Physical Meme Terminal for Distributed Teams as a story · 7 points
HN discussionGood question! We wrote a few blog[0] posts[1] about the motivation for signy and how it is used in practice. The primary use case is complex devices with multiple MCUs and multi-protocol connectivity (e.g. Wi-Fi, Cellular, Bluetooth, etc.). In this context, each MCU may have different security capabilities, and manufacturing / provisioning may be simplified by storing a single set of credentials (e.g. a private key…
Comment linking /signed-urls-on-esp32/
on “Signy: Signed URLs for Small Devices”Submitted Posting to Bluesky from a Microcontroller as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted USB Access from Docker on Windows and macOS as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A $2 Geofence with an ESP32-C3 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-install embedded training with Zephyr using Kasm and Docker as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gateway-Based Positioning as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Posting to Bluesky from a Microcontroller as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enabling power regulators automatically at boot in Zephyr (RTOS) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Zephyr for the Raspberry Pi Pico2 W as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gateway-Based Positioning as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted tinymcp: Unlocking the Physical World for LLMs with MCP and Microcontrollers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nat Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write a Zephyr Device Driver with a Custom API as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Golioth for AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Device Management Should Be Free as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Move over Internet of Things, I Built the Internet of Memes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zephyr and Arduino: A Google Summer of Code Story as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Zephyr RTOS Development Using Segger Tunnel and a Raspberry Pi as a story · 4 points
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