Coding Relic

I powered on two HomeAssistant Voice Preview Edition devices , trying to replace our use of Google Home. It is set up self-hosted in a HomeA...

By Ed Hawkins, climate scientist. CarlinMack created this version. Three weeks ago contracts for the National Climate Assessment wer...

Climate Week is drawing to an end , not yet done but one can see the close approaching. I have spent a bit over a year now on my own, do...

As I did last year, I took the train to get to SF Climate Week. In this area that means taking Caltrain up the Peninsula before switching t...

This is SF Climate Week! The opening keynote with former Vice President Al Gore, long-time Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, & SF Mayo...

Until 1975 German mothers did not pass on citizenship to children born in wedlock, only German fathers did. To address historic gender discr...

New coal policies are invariably announced in front of a group of workers wearing hard hats with lights affixed, and often in Pennsylvania f...

Over a decade ago I configured this Google Blogger site to use FeedBurner. This blog never generated ad revenue and I turned ad insertion ...

Nearly 14 years ago I wrote a joke post about the Holtzmann Shields from Frank Herbert's Dune, complete with impressive-looking but non...

For many years, too many years, my family computer backup plan was an aging Apple Airport Time Capsule paired with the fervent hope that...

I use Proxmox with a ZFS array to run a number of self-hosted services. I have been working on setting up zrepl for offsite backup, replic...

I received a Sterbeurkunde from Stadtarchiv Hannover on 28 March 2025, with the following note in the email signature: Von März bis Jah...

My Macbook Air M1 was gradually developing some kind of impairment in its USB-C ports where I'd have to jiggle or put actual pressure on...

Venmo pushes hard for transaction activity to be Public. It doesn't say whether any past payments were actually public, and puts up an i...

I started using Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation several months ago. It is a browser extension — I use it with Chr...