Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting – heres what we learned
← November 7, 2025 Recalls at major automakers cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It’s a huge issue. To mitigate it, our company created an analytics department solely focused on categorizing warranty claims into actionable problems. For decades, this team has relied on SQL queries to classify warranty data. But vehicles—and the language used to […]
DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as “Existential Threat”
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > Non-profit DNS resolver Quad9 reports that legal battles over pirate site blocking have become an “existential threat” to its service. In a recent blog post, the Swiss foundation argues that while tech giants like Google and Cloudflare can absorb the legal and engineering costs, smaller organizations cannot. The […]
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 […]