Coding Relic

Random musings on software in an embedded world.

Monday, September 8, 2025

Konsulatstermine für Reisepässe

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Upon acceptance of a Staatsangehörigkeit § 5 declaration, making one a German citizen, the next step is generally to order a German passp...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

LLMs to Blaze a Trail

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As an engineering executive there are a few ideas and practices which I reinforce via repetition to the team, either explicitly at the start...
Monday, September 1, 2025

On the Persistence of Human Memory

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Tell me this looks wrong to you, too. Claude Code doesn't see it. I mean, of course Claude Code doesn't see it, it has no eyes...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Claude Code's 19 cent Parser

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A brief prompt: In authheader.go write a function to parse a SIP WWW-Authenticate header for Digest authentication. It should return a ma...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Training Gemma3-270m for German Q-and-A

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Google recently introduced Gemma3-270M, a smaller Gemma3 model with "only" 270 million parameters instead of billions. The most...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Iceland Carbfix Tour

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In July 2025 we took a tour of the Geothermal Exhibition at Hellisheiðarvirkjun in Iceland , all about Geothermal power. My spouse is a Prof...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Survey of Germany-related blog posts

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My spouse's German mother emigrated to the United States in 1958. Until 1975, German mothers did not pass on citizenship to children bor...
Monday, August 11, 2025

High School German with UCScout On Demand

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I've written about our journey to German citizenship for my wife and our children . Yet merely having a German passport, Passdeutsche, ...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Germany trip 7.2025

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Reprising last year's trip , we spent another July in Europe this year. One somewhat less pleasant aspect of last year's trip was ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Personal View of NYC Congestion Pricing

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In the 2010s I managed an engineering organization with teams in California and New York. I travelled to NYC a number of times, typically st...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Tello Android settings for VoWifi

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Tello is a T/Mobile MVNO in the US which offers good support for Voice-over-Wifi, whereby voice and SMS can be sent using an Internet conne...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Vibe Coding and Wisdom

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I started experimenting with Claude Code a while ago. I am not the first person to make this observation, but thinking of Claude Code as an ...
Friday, July 4, 2025

Your Parent Did Not Give Up German Citizenship at 18

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There have been a large number of US troops stationed in Germany for decades, since the end of World War II. As happens in these circumstanc...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Paragon mechanical timer 4004-71M vs 4004-71

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Our pool pump uses an Intermatic timer which stopped working a few weeks ago. The mechanical timer mechanism is labelled as a Paragon Electr...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

HomeAssistant Voice Preview Edition poweron

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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...
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