Thinking Out Loud
The Ridge That Learned to Be Haunted
Thinking Out Loud · Nick Appleby In the winter of 2003 I stayed in a big hotel overlooking…
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Industry and Opinion
The Price Is You
Thinking Out Loud · Nick Appleby The paper price tag is quietly dying, and nobody put it to…
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The Standard That Ate the Story
Thinking Out Loud · Nick Appleby Somewhere in the last forty years, a good chunk of British industry…
Antennas
The edge antenna: my vision for the future of IoT connectivity
Thinking Out Loud · Nick Appleby · May 2026 Twenty-five years in cellular IoT gives you a feel…
Industry and Opinion
EU Cyber Resilience Act – IoT Information
What the EU Cyber Resilience Act means for IoT The lawyers have had their say. The security vendors…
Thinking Out Loud
Dear Diary – Am I Doing the Thing I Admonish?
Last week I published Your Magnetic Ink – a piece about a Moody Blues lyric from 1969 that…
Thinking Out Loud
Your Magnetic Ink
I was a kid the first time I heard it. I didn’t understand it. I just knew it…
Industry and Opinion
The Cricket Bat, the GOAT, and the Night at Heathrow
I found Dan Peña the way most people do. Down a YouTube rabbit hole at midnight, looking for…
IoT and Connectivity
Zero Trust: What Networks Can Teach Us About the Most Human Thing There Is
Zero Trust: What Networks Can Teach Us About the Most Human Thing There Is In security, zero trust…
AI
Five AIs, Five Cultures – The Question Nobody Is Asking
AI epistemic culture is forming quietly. Different systems – Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Perplexity – have different embedded…