Kedar Sovani

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[Kedar Sovani @kedarsovani]

0/n: As excitement about the Matter release for the Smart Home continues to build, we have put together a series of posts that look at various aspects of #MatterIoT.

I will keep adding to this list as we make subsequent posts each week. @csaiot #IoT #ESP32 @EspressifSystem

[Connectivity Standards Alliance @csaiot]

“Matter allows us an opportunity where even single-person companies can launch products worldwide that are very safe, very reliable, and work with all the existing controllers or ecosystems out there.”

Promoter Member @EspressifSystem's Kedar Sovani, Senior Director of Engineering, IoT Ecosystems, shares how #Matter is helping democratize #IoT by enabling developers of all sizes to build interoperable products for a global market.

Learn more: https://t.co/waEFBfvTH4

#csaiot #buildwithmatter

[Kedar Sovani @kedarsovani]

@shantanugoel @hey_yogini @EspressifSystem @shahpiyushv This is what I was talking about:

Blog:
https://t.co/fyfG0Qpeap

Code:
https://t.co/mitV8nWGIz

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.

My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.

So, here goes.

[CNX Software @cnxsoft]

Espressif Systems launches ESP Private Agents for ESP32-powered local or hybrid voice AI assistants.
https://t.co/bSdKQbSBvU

ESP Private Agents platform to help developers build local, private, and customizable AI assistants for ESP32 hardware. The solution is built on AWS cloud services using AWS Fargate as a primary application platform and Amazon Bedrock Foundation Models as backend LLM systems.

The company provides a web-based online demo, and also uploaded a neat video demo showing a multilingual voice AI assistant running on the ESP32-S3-powered EchoEar devkit.

[linuxdevices @linuxdevices]

The ESP Private Agents platform aims to ease the development of ESP32-based AI voice assistants with on-device processing:

Espressif has just introduced the ESP Private Agents platform design to help developers build local, private, and customizable AI… https://t.co/ACMnejw3XB

[Kedar Sovani @kedarsovani]

@shantanugoel @hey_yogini @EspressifSystem @shahpiyushv sounds interesting, following up on DM

[Kedar Sovani @kedarsovani]

@shantanugoel @hey_yogini @EspressifSystem @shahpiyushv Hey! We just came back from Shanghai over the weekend. What are you hacking on?

[Anuj Deshpande @anujdeshpandey]

Next up we have @mahavirjain from @EspressifSystem talking about how the company behind ESP32 contributes to open source including Zephyr!

[Anuj Deshpande @anujdeshpandey]

Zephyr Pune Meetup ✅

[SmartHomeScene @SmartHomeScene]

Made my own #Matter LED Strip! 💡

Guide is in the works... ✍️

[Makerville @makerville_io]

The @makerville_io badge will be at the @ZephyrIoT Pune meetup at the @EspressifSystem offices

No coincidence that the badge is an esp32c3 running Zephyr 😎

[Kedar Sovani @kedarsovani]

Zephyr Meetup happening at Espressif #Pune office on 23 May

#zephyrrtos #iot

[Zephyr Project @ZephyrIoT]

Reminder: CFP Closing Soon! Don’t miss your chance to speak at the Zephyr Project Meetup at hosted by @EspressifSystem India Pvt Ltd at Pune, India. CFP submissions close at 11:59 PM CET on May 18, 2025. https://t.co/aF5lly4NZQ
#opensource #ZephyrRTOS

[Zephyr Project @ZephyrIoT]

Reminder: CFP Closing Soon! Don’t miss your chance to speak at the Zephyr Project Meetup at hosted by @EspressifSystem India Pvt Ltd at Pune, India. CFP submissions close at 11:59 PM CET on May 18, 2025. https://t.co/aF5lly4NZQ
#opensource #ZephyrRTOS

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Naval never chased a traditional career.

He didn’t climb ladders.
He didn’t aim for a corner office.
He didn’t wait for retirement to finally “live.”

Because he saw what most people don’t:

“Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow.”

[Kedar Sovani @kedarsovani]

@vedang @jiteshs_ And at our place, we used the p4-git bridge, until we fully made the move to git

[Vedang (fosstodon.org/@vedang) @vedang]

My Git story: the year was 2006. @jiteshs_ and I were participating in a bunch of coding competitions.

For PICT's OPUS, we built a file-splitting program based on Hamming codes, to move around large files on floppy disks. It was beautiful.

But we didn't know anything about version control and would write code in folders "opus_final", "opus_latest", "opus_final final" and so on.

Inevitably, we took the wrong version with us to the competition and failed.

That's when we decided we needed to get serious about version control.

Early 2007, we were lucky enough to get @kedarsovani as a mentor (Go Dreamz group!)

He introduced us to git. We had no idea this was a "hot new thing". We didn't know what DVCS meant. We just absolutely loved what it unlocked for us. Forever grateful to Kedar for this.

In 2008, I joined Symantec. My team used CVS. After a full year of using git, i wasn't going to go back.

So I spent nights and weekends working to setup the git-cvs bridge on cygwin. The team would continue using CVS, and I would continue using Git, and none would be the wiser!

The amount I learned in this process made me a complete Git convert, and possibly set me up with a lifetime's love for tooling.

I love Git. Happy 20th birthday you magnificent beast.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Nvidia CEO: Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.

Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

The founder of Netflix literally drops his best business advice in under a minute

[linuxdevices @linuxdevices]

ESP LowCode Matter splits system and application firmware for simpler ESP32 device development:

Espressif released the ESP ZeroCode web application in the summer of 2023 to create custom Matter-certifiable firmware for ESP32 targets. However, if your a… https://t.co/KlDdllZmMO

[CNX Software @cnxsoft]

.@EspressifSystem ESP LowCode Matter aims to simplify the development of Matter devices based on ESP32 SoCs.
https://t.co/uS8PWES9VN

It does so by splitting the system firmware handling Matter, wireless, OTA updates, and security, and the application firmware with hardware interface and application logic. Development can be done in a web browser or the VS Code IDE. Right now, only ESP32-C6 is supported. #smarthome