Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) have published open letters addressed to ”EU digital ministers,” expressing […]
Installing and using HP-UX 9
JP’s Website Posted on 2025-11-08 Contents Background A few weeks back I got a note on Bluesky, linking me to a website offering a free computer. The owner was in Cambridge, not far from me, and the computer was an HP 9000/300 Series – a Model 340, specifically. The HP 9000 line of workstations and […]
Realtime BART Arrival Display
I have a love-hate relationship with BART. I’m grateful for it, but let’s just say it’s not always the most reliable so it’s nice to see before hand when the train you need is due to arrive. There are plenty of projects out there that show real-time BART arrival information. This one does that too, […]
The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
Still, he admits, it is true that prominent men have prominent noses — everyone since Aristotle has agreed about that. An aquiline nose, we learn, is a necessary component of a hero’s face, accompanied by a wide and raised forehead, thick eyebrows, and eyes angled such that “the interior corners make an angle above the […]
Error ABI
Nov 9, 2025 A follow-up on the “strongly typed error codes” article. One common argument about using algebraic data types for errors is that: Error information is only filled in when an error occurs, And errors happen rarely, on the cold path, Therefore, filling in the diagnostic information is essentially free, a zero cost abstraction. […]
Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues
We’ve seen a slight uptick in pull-requests and bug reports which appear to be LLM-generated, so it’s probably about time to come to a decision on what we should and should not accept and document this somewhere (presumably in CONTRIBUTING.md). My personal opinion is we shouldn’t accept anything LLM-generated, but this is probably not the […]
How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry
HMHS Britannic under construction at Harland and Wolff, circa 1914. Via Wikipedia. From roughly the end of the US Civil War until the late 1950s, the United Kingdom was one of the biggest shipbuilders in the world. By the 1890s, UK shipbuilders were delivering 80% of worldwide shipping tonnage, and though the country only briefly […]
My Git history was a mess of ’update’ and ’fix’ – so I made AI clean it up
AI-powered git commit message rewriter using GPT Automatically rewrite your entire git commit history with better, conventional commit messages using AI. Perfect for cleaning up messy commit histories before open-sourcing projects or improving repository maintainability. Important Disclaimer This tool rewrites git history, which is generally NOT recommended for shared repositories! When to use: Personal projects […]
Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB
Browse Android files on macOS with style A beautiful, native macOS application for browsing and managing your Android device files via ADB. Fast, intuitive, and powerful. Version 0.1.0 • macOS 10.13+ • Free & Open Source
When Tesla’s FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn’t, you get blamed
Photo by Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, via New York Times Tesla has engaged in a pattern of taking credit for the successes of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, even though the car still relies on an attentive driver, and yet blaming the driver rather than the software whenever things go badly. But new moves towards […]