I'm sat on the sofa, MacBook perched on my lap, going over some photos and generally feeling pretty tired in a really satisfying way. We've just had a brief weekend run to one of my favourite places on the planet, back in the county I was born in: Whitby. The plan for the weekend, as it always is when we do a run...

Following on from yesterday's experiment with webp I got to thinking that it might be handy to add a wee command to blogmore.el that can quickly swap an image's extension from whatever it is to webp. So v4.1 has happened. The new command is simple enough, called blogmore-webpify-image-at-point; it just looks to see...

For a good while now I've been pretty happy with the PageSpeed measurements of this blog, which in turn means I've been happy with the state of what's generated by BlogMore. I have pretty much everything that can be minified nice and minimal. At this point, the main thing that causes the speed measurement to...

boxquote.el is another of my oldest Emacs Lisp packages. The original code itself was inspired by something I saw on Usenet, and writing my own version of it seemed like a great learning exercise; as noted in the thanks section in the commentary in the source: Kai Grossjohann for inspiring the idea of boxquote. I...

Quick little update for BlogMore, with a bump up to v2.14.0. This release comes from another feature request from Andy1, where he asked if it would be possible to have a year-based bar chart in the stats page. Funnily enough I'd been thinking about the same thing just yesterday. I'd been wondering if it was worth...

Yet another older Emacs Lisp package that has had a tidy up. This one is slstats.el, a wee package that can be used to look up various statistics about the Second Life grid. It's mainly a wrapper around the API provided by the Second Life grid survey. When slstats is run, you get an overview of all of the...

Yesterday evening I released v1.4.0 of OldNews, my terminal-based client for TheOldReader. The change in this release is pretty straightforward, but something I kept finding myself wanting. I've added three new commands to the application: JumpToSubscriptions - Jump to the subscriptions panel JumpToArticles - Jump...

I think I'm mostly caught up with the collection of Emacs Lisp packages that need updating and tidying, which means yesterday evening's clean-up should be one of the last (although I would like to revisit a couple and actually improve and extend them at some point). As for what I cleaned up yesterday: wordcloud.el....

I just grabbed and opened up the MacBook Air and met this: First time I've ever seen this and I've been using Ghostty for quite a while now. To be fair, the MacBook did update to 26.4.1 overnight and has tried to get back to the state it was in before the restart, so I imagine that's the cause. But I've never seen...

The experiment with building an MCP server continues, with some hacking on it happening over a couple of hours while killing time in an Edinburgh coffee shop. It is, of course, a solution looking for a problem, and I suspect I'm the only person who will ever use it, and even then only as a test, but building it is...

This morning I'm tinkering some more with NGMCP. Having done a release yesterday and tested it out by globally installing it with: uv tool install ngmcp I was then left with the question: how do I easily test the version of the code I'm working on, when I now have it set up globally? Having done the global...

Recently I've been thinking that it would be interesting to get to know a little about the Model Context Protocol and see what it's about and get a feel for how useful it might be, if at all, for anything I do. As always happens when I want to try out something new, I reached for a problem I know well so I don't...