The month of March 2026 Caption: Small boy on the rocks, big boy in the water. Technology Moved from Gravatar to Libravatar Created Email article article Created Vocaloid article Need to spend more time with this, get it working with voices Need to check out LanguageTool plugin for Kmail and others Figure out how to ... Read more
The month of February 2026 Caption: Lovely Tom Yam rice noodle soup with pork. Note: This pace of monthly notes fits better, as there is generally chaos in the individual weeks but a month view can be more liberating. Technology Updated the Go article to include Go-based apps of note (there are many) Updated the ... Read more
Updated 26-Feb-2026 The month of January 2026 Caption: Tree height Note: turning these weekly into monthly notes, as I simply don't get to them. Tasks (open) Many administrative tasks Revision of several products Increase mobility Maintain GenAI learnings, write up articles Tech stuff Moved over to Flatpak for browsers (Ungoogled Chromium, Vivaldi) even though these ... Read more
Caption: New swimming pool I think this is the first week of 2026 or perhaps the last week of 2025? In any case, I've not done weekly notes for a few months now. Time to start again? I get the feeling that 2026 will end with many more question marks per paragraph? Software stuff Overall ... Read more
Updated 26-Oct-2025 W39/2025: Monday 22 September - Sunday 28 September 2025 Caption: Bacon on Egg on Toast Tasks (open) Deploy more anti-bot measures on the website Enable caching on Gcore Install and configure Ejabbard server for domain: mcneill.info Migrate users from chat.mcneill.im to mcneill.info XMPP For Slack / Discord replacements, see: Zulip, Mattermost, Rocket Chat, ... Read more
W38/2025: Monday 15 September - Sunday 21 September 2025 Caption: Stop promoting substack Tech Fantastic article on Chinese AI pioneer Tasks (open) Consider Sypht or Roundcube for self-hosting email (and with web interface). A problem with my current email provider is not getting resolved (13 days so far). Deploy more anti-bot measures Enable caching on ... Read more
W37/2025: Monday 08 September - Sunday 14 September 2025 Caption: No Smoking No Vaping (vaping is smoking, folks!) Tech Fantastic article on Chinese AI pioneer Tasks (open) Consider Sypht or Roundcube for self-hosting email (and with web interface). A problem with my current email provider is not getting resolved (13 days so far). Deploy more ... Read more
Updated 14-Nov-2025 W36/2025: Monday 01 September - Sunday 07 September 2025 Caption: Rainbow over the football pitch, Tessabaan Hang Dong Tech Migrating from my *.io domains to *.info which is cheaper and more stable as a generic TLD, and the prices are not becoming ridiculous, as .ios are. Who knows what will happen with the ... Read more
W35/2025: Monday 25 August - Sunday 31 August 2025 No notes this week.
W34/2025: Monday 18 August - Sunday 24 August 2025 Caption: Lovely vinegar Tech Migrating from my *.io domains to *.info which is cheaper and more stable as a generic TLD, and the prices are not becoming ridiculous, as .ios are. Who knows what will happen with the .io tld now that Chagoans (actually, Mauritians) are ... Read more
W33/2025: Monday 11 August - Sunday 17 August 2025 Caption: Good-sized black scorpion hanging out at night. Tech Heard about Slidev Completed Updated Syncthing to 2.x.x on Debian and Android. Ironed out the installation instructions on Syncthing. Still installing filters on Fail2Ban, and banning more bots Tasks Enable caching on Gcore Install and configure Prosody ... Read more
W32/2025: Monday 04 August - Sunday 10 August 2025 Caption: boys & boba Tech Completed Fail2Ban implemented Next steps: Anubis (and maybe zip bombs) Tasks Syncthing Enable caching on Gcore Install and configure Prosody server for domain: mcneill.io Migrate users from chat.mcneill.im to mcneill.io XMPP Books Wow, lots of interesting books read, they just come ... Read more
W31/2025: Monday 28 July - Sunday 03 August 2025 Caption: Synthetic camera view Tech Completed Cutover to Trixie on five devices (including a server). Cutover to Hetzner (Germany) from Linode (France), this gives me 2x the server resources for the same price. Installed and migrated WordPress installations. Cutover from Cloudflare to Gcore for DNS Tasks ... Read more
W30/2025: Monday 21 July - Sunday 27 July 2025 Caption: boy Tech Tasks Modernize apt sources files. This is the new format. Did this, and updated a bunch of the apt article. Hunt down the annoying bug Warning: https://apt.syncthing.net/dists/syncthing/InRelease: Policy will reject signature within a year, see --audit for details. Fixed this by importing the ... Read more
W29/2025: Monday 14 July - Sunday 20 July 2025 Short note this week. Tech Updated the Kodi article to Nova, as that is what I use at home on Android TV, and on Android mobile devices. Upgraded two servers, one desktop, and one laptop to Debian 13 (Trixie). It will be frozen later this month ... Read more
W28/2025: Monday 07 July - Sunday 13 July 2025 No notes this week.
W27/2025: Monday 30 June - Sunday 06 July 2025 Caption: boy Tech Spent time fixing the Android 15 / One UI 7 update to my Samsung A24 (a great phone), and wrote up Disable One UI 7 Battery Indicator. Samsung, Y U Suck? Spent time lamenting two bugs in Dino, in the Dino XMPP chat. ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W25/2025: Monday 23 June - Sunday 29 June 2025 Caption: Camera view on BYD Dolphin 2024 Tech Tasks Trying out Gcore (to replace Cloudflare) Work Urk Health Finished reading How to Feed the World by Smil. Excellent work. Wrote up a post on Food and supplements which summarizes some of the issues for ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W25/2025: Monday 16 June - Sunday 22 June 2025 No notes this week, but do have for next week
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W24/2025: Monday 09 June - Sunday 15 June 2025 Caption: Reading boy Tech Added a web scrobbler (downloaded .crx file, added to Ungoogled Chromium and Vivaldi). Need to add command-line (CLI, TUI) scrobbling. Maybe this set of tools that include SomaFM and YouTube/Invidious, and scrobbling? Tech Tasks Upgraded the SDCard in my phone ... Read more