{"id":203,"date":"2016-05-19T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T22:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanbak.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:02:38","slug":"a-toaster-that-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"A toaster that sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7folKbch3U8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want a toaster that sings.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want a toaster that makes polite conversation and suggests assorted bread products.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want a toaster that comes with a custom app.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want a toaster that plays games or gives a weather forecast.\u00a0 I want a toaster that can toast bread.<\/p>\n<p>The whole IoT (Internet of Things) concept is a nifty idea, but I think sometimes it&#8217;s taken the wrong way.\u00a0 It is cheap and easy to add features and so everything is being packed with features that may or may not be useful or necessary just so the device can be labeled &#8220;smart&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to pick on toasters (apparently many people do)&#8211;it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been ubiquitous in kitchens for decades and has essentially one purpose; adding &#8220;smart&#8221; features doesn&#8217;t help it accomplish its purpose better and in some cases complicates and hinders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want a toaster that sings.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want a toaster that makes polite conversation and suggests assorted bread products.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want a toaster that comes with a custom app.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want a toaster that plays games or gives a weather forecast.\u00a0 I want a toaster that can toast bread. The whole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/?p=203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A toaster that sings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,6],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dumb-device","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}