Coding Relic

Random musings on software in an embedded world.

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Electric short-haul vehicles

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The market for forklifts and similar lift trucks electrified early. The market for Class I lift trucks intended mainly for use inside wareh...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Virtual Power Plants and the California Grid

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The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) has published a report regarding electricity generation in the summer of 2025, which inc...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Germany Photos Then and Now

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In our collection of family photos we have a number of sets taken in Germany over the decades: in the early 1950s by my spouse's gra...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

New Ohio Exonym Just Dropped

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Tell me your game development is done outside of the United States without telling me your game development is done outside of the United St...
Friday, October 10, 2025

New Google Blogger Features ?!?

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**Try our New Beta Features**: Create a more engaging reading experience with the help of Google Google Search previews: Easily insert vi...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

EasyPASS and entering Germany

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If you've ever flown into Germany you've seen the two lines at customs and immigration, one for citizens of the European Union and o...
Friday, September 26, 2025

On the Nature of Microservices

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Microservices entered the lexicon of systems engineering a number of years ago, breaking up a system which might once have been delivered ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Try Turning the Train Off and Back On

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Today I rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit train from the peninsula up to San Francisco. Our stop at the 24th and Mission station was unusua...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

One Year of Electrified Caltrain

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In November 2020 California voters passed Measure RR to fund electrification of Caltrain down the San Francisco Peninsula. After several ...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Android Signal Keyboard Privacy

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Android keyboards can be quite sophisticated, including learning of commonly used words or languages. Some of these result in uploading what...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Continuous Improvement in LLM Code Generation

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One week ago, I wrote: "I wish wish wish that Claude Code would automatically populate a .gitignore for node_modules. Not for the fir...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Passport Cards as Proof of Citizenship

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In November 2024 we ordered Passport Cards for the first time. The cards arrived 18 days after we mailed in the forms, without paying fo...
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...
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