About Things | A Hans Scharler Blog – Life, Comedy, Games, Tech, Marketing, and Community

# NotHans.com > Life, Comedy, Games, Tech, Marketing, and Community — a blog by Hans Scharler. Hans Scharler is an inventor, blogger, community manager, and maker. He founded ioBridge, Light Fun Games, and Trademark BBQ. He created ThingSpeak, CheerLights, and @MyToaster (an internet-connected toaster on Twitter). He founded the first Internet of Things community, growing it to over 500,000 developers worldwide. He currently leads community strategy for MathWorks, overseeing millions of users from undergraduate education through industrial applications. He has worked on documentaries and feature films about games and board games. Featured in TIME, Wired, and Hackaday. ## Categories - [AI](https://nothans.com/category/ai): Agentic coding, AI models, prompting, the agentic web, and the future of software engineering - [Software](https://nothans.com/category/software): Development tools, coding tutorials, and engineering practices - [IoT](https://nothans.com/category/iot): Internet of Things projects, Arduino, ESP32, ThingSpeak, and hardware hacking - [CheerLights](https://nothans.com/category/cheerlights): The global IoT art project that synchronizes lights around the world - [Games](https://nothans.com/category/games): Pinball machines, mods, board games, tabletop RPGs, and collecting - [BBQ](https://nothans.com/category/bbq): Brisket, smoked turkey, burnt ends, and rub recipes - [Life](https://nothans.com/category/life): Surfing, mindfulness, self-reflection, travel, and personal essays - [Community](https://nothans.com/category/community): Building and managing developer communities ## Recent Posts - [Welcome to the Agentic Web](https://nothans.com/welcome-to-the-agentic-web): AI agents are the web's primary users now. Developers must prioritize structured data, protocols like MCP and llms.txt, and measure success through agent interactions. - [Twenty Prototypes](https://nothans.com/twenty-prototypes): When building costs minutes instead of days, skip the d