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
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W23/2025: Monday 02 June - Sunday 08 June 2025 Caption: Boys with football (soccer ball) Cooking Lovely split pea soup, overnight oats, miso soup, miso dressing, chicken, pork, eggs, rice, bread from Nana bakery. Work Huge problems with distribution at the moment. The printer I use is having severe communication issues. Hopefully this ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W20/2025: Monday 19 May - Sunday 25 May 2025 Caption: Mussaman curry with chicken over rice. I split this with my youngest son, and we are both full. 60 Baht (<$2 USD) at Kad Farang, Chiang Mai. Stuff Did not keep track of things very well this week, so we are a bit ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W20/2025: Monday 12 May - Sunday 18 May 2025 Caption: Back to school Cooking Some good food these days, but nothing new. Split pea soup. Lovely breads from Nana Bakery. Pasta, tomato, and meat sauce. Hamburgers (pork) with baked potato wedges. Yoghurt with fruits and nuts. Fluffy scrambled eggs. Pancakes (on the weekend). ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W19/2025: Monday 05 May - Sunday 11 May 2025 Caption: Boys Cooking Some good food these days, but nothing new. Work End of Boy's term vacation means I can get to work again. Tech Moving out of all US-based company tech. This means my VPS and all other third-party hosting and services. No ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W18/2025: Monday 28 April - Sunday 04 May 2025 Caption: Small boy and mannequin Cooking Gonna do a chasha / nibuta / yakibuta Some sources: here, here, and here. Work The revision project has begun (slowly) Tech Time to revisit which DNS services to use. First draft of Open source project sustainability article. ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W22/2025: Monday 26 May - Sunday 01 June 2025 Caption: Mid-may look (pre-chop) Cooking Standards, nice and healthy. Work Lots to do and not much getting done. Tech Discourse not Discord. The latest theme I've been seeing is quite Discord-like in terms of the left-hand menu. Discourse is not likely worse than Discord, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W17/2025: Monday 21 April - Sunday 27 April 2025 Caption: Peanut butter on toast mmmm. Work Not much done, see health. Tech Some renovations to the kitchen included a new toaster oven (replacing a 15-year-old beast whose timer stopped turning off the burners after the time was up). I've added a second induction ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W16/2025: Monday 14 April - Sunday 20 April 2025 Work Ah well, can't win them all. Tech Some stuff on golang Stop using their stuff (work in progress) Health The big boy has been sick for more than a week. We've changed the medication. He is not getting worse, and the lungs check ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W15/2025: Monday 07 April - Sunday 13 April 2025 Caption: Think Think Think Work Trump is killing me with a 36% tariff. Whoever thought this senile criminal is a mastermind should be forced to light all their money on fire. It's what he is doing. Tech This approach to developing a PWA using ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W14/2025: Monday 31 March - Sunday 06 April 2025 Caption: midnight snack Work Managed to distribute a lot, though this depleted much of our stock. Paid the printers. Trump's stupid tariffs are going to make it impossible to ship goods to the United States, as we have less than a 37% profit margin, ... Read more