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There has been a major move forwards in my house build: Foundations should start to be installed end of this month.

For the past month I have had three AI coding agents busy running in parallel in the background to implement three things I’ve been working upon – sometimes I stretch to four concurrent things, but to be honest the context switching for that gets a bit he…

I hadn’t expected to write another diary entry in here during August, however last week Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 was released and for reasons as you’ll see shortly, I have spent most days this past week using it all day and sometimes all night long.

Three weeks since the last diary entry here, but only two weeks since round three of the groundworks for my house build were completed – they lasted about one month in the end.

It’s been a long three weeks!

Five days remain until the EU brings in a new tariff on small packages entering the EU which has been designed to stem the flow of direct-to-EU-consumer small packages being sent from lower cost countries, with the overwhelming majority (91%!)

I am typing to you now from the cabin on my site where popups installation continues apace.

I am finally able to write up the third and final part of my series of diary entries on ‘balcony solar’ installations in Ireland.

Here is the annual update to my periodic comparison of storage bytes per inflation adjusted dollar for magnetic hard drives and flash SSDs (you can find all the past posts here), which I have done every June since 2012: Raw data: http://www.nedprod.com/st…

Last diary entry I went into a fair bit of detail about the hardware and the theory behind ‘balcony solar’ installations in Ireland, and I was hopefully persuasive about the theoretical potential reduction in electricity bills and theoretical return on in…

First things first: April 2026 was a rotten month for us, as we had fail all in quick succession the dishwasher, the side mirror on my car, the lawn mower, and Megan’s car failed its annual roadworthiness test due to a rotten rear subframe.

After recovering from illness a couple of weeks ago, it’s been a flurry of activity since – mostly outdoors too, as we’ve had good weather.

Woke up early this morning with plans as the groundworks got cancelled, but I began to feel increasingly awful so I went back to bed.

I am feeling run off my feet as I shall be taking all my children alone to England for ten days tomorrow to give Megan uninterrupted space to study for her exams.

I’ve been rather run off my feet these past couple weeks such that I kept not getting round to writing up my rented home internet upgrade.

I had thought that this St.

I just finished making my rented house internet go much faster, it took me several hours of work this morning, then this afternoon I was in a WG14 standards meeting, so I just finished the work there now.

Mostly these past two weeks I have been working on another long overdue chore item from my unemployment backlog: doing something about the tens of thousands of photos we have accumulated over the years.

Yesterday the site switched from Eir fibre broadband over to Digiweb fibre broadband.

After paying the second stage payment to the future builder of my house build three weeks ago, he tells me that we might get the service popups installation plan next week.

This day last week we took a major decision for my house build by deciding to press ahead with the build by paying the second stage payment to the builder (so yes, he finally came back with a final quote for both substructure and superstructure, which was…

It’s been seven months now that I’ve been unemployed, and I’ve been making good progress through the todo list that I had built up these past eight years – which is about one year less than the age of my son, if I think about it, which makes sense as I was

A few posts ago I said that I had written another ‘long form’ essay style post, the second I’ve written since I had children (you may remember with fondness – or not – the last long form essay on geopolitics last April.

Last post I did a show and tell of the secure encrypted key fob and portable monitor I had purchased from Aliexpress.

That portable monitor and the additional secure encrypted USB drives arrived from Aliexpress, so here is some show and tell on those.

I’ve finished the WG14 reference libraries implementation and I’ve written and submitted their associated WG14 papers, which was my major todo item to get done before Christmas.