Coding Relic

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...