Technology

TCL and IRC

March 24, 2023

Maybe I am old school, but I still hang out on IRC; the original social network. I have written some TCL scripts for Eggdrop bots over the years, and have just made massive improvements to … Continue ReadingTCL and IRC

House Technology

Internet Music Tuner

March 6, 2023

I rarely sing the praises of consumer items, because most things these days are barely acceptable garbage for the sake of profit. The world of internet capable devices to stream audio to your home stereo … Continue ReadingInternet Music Tuner

Technology

Modern Mailgraph

January 4, 2023

Mailgraph by David Schweikert is a simple mail server graphing tool written in Perl that uses RRD. Because it was written almost 20 years ago it is a CGI script, which has been depreciated for … Continue ReadingModern Mailgraph

Technology

Stardate Pi

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

I have a Pi, but its a version 1B+. It is very slow. I have always thought it would be fun to have it displaying something, and I have a monitor in my little server … Continue ReadingStardate Pi

Technology

Happy New Year

January 2, 2023January 3, 2023

Every year end I spend some time during the holidays cleaning up technical debt. Updating this, rebuilding that, re-configuring other stuff. This year I rebuilt a home server PC that had failed sometime in November. … Continue ReadingHappy New Year

Technology

Hello Fediverse

December 26, 2022December 26, 2022

I think federated social media is the future. It is a shame Big Social deliberately chose to stifle federation or we could have done this years ago.