Coding Relic

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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