open source software, software development, college hoops, and other stuff
News
WebCalendar v1.9.24 is out. It adds a command line tool for administrators, raises the minimum PHP version to 8.2, and repairs several features that had quietly stopped working, including Purge Events, which did not work at all. Three of the changes can affect an existing installation, so please read the next section before you upgrade. […]
Software
Every developer who has shipped software to other people has received this bug report: “It crashed sometime on the third floor, I think I’d just used the thing.” You can’t fix that. You can guess at it. You can ask follow-up questions the reporter has already forgotten the answers to. You can spend an afternoon […]
Software
Derelict Ark is a turn-based, first-person dungeon crawler set aboard humanity’s last colony ship, playable free in your browser. Press F8 and every bug report replays as a deterministic regression test.
News
WebCalendar v1.9.22 adds MCP write and scheduling tools so AI agents can manage your calendar, a WordPress export page, 77 restored translations, an upgrade fix, and UI polish.
Software
If you’ve ever tried to run a busy calendar on WordPress, you’ve probably hit the wall. Most calendar plugins store every event as a WordPress post, and somewhere past a few hundred events the admin slows to a crawl — with the front end not far behind. For a small events page that’s fine. For […]
Python
A few weeks ago I typed this into a terminal: “Set up a recurring team standup on weekday mornings, but skip Fridays.” A couple of seconds later my calendar showed a proposed event — and then it stopped and waited. It didn’t save anything. It showed me the fully expanded recurrence (every occurrence, in my […]
Go
Years ago I wrote ILib, a small C library for reading, drawing on, and saving images. It has always been one of my favorite little projects — simple, dependency-light, and genuinely handy. Recently I ported it to Go as ilibgo, and along the way it picked up a few new tricks I’m excited to show […]
Basketball
It has been far too long since I’ve written about Virginia basketball — and honestly, so much has changed that I barely know where to start. Last time I really checked in, Tony Bennett was still patrolling the sideline and the Pack Line was gospel. Since then we’ve had a stunning retirement, a bumpy interim […]
Software
Here’s something I’ve wanted for a long time: asking my calendar questions in plain English. As of WebCalendar 1.9.16, you can. WebCalendar now ships an MCP server — Model Context Protocol support — so you can connect an AI assistant like Claude directly to your self-hosted calendar and say things like “What’s on my calendar […]
Software
A practical comparison of the best open-source, self-hosted Google Calendar alternatives in 2026 — Nextcloud, Radicale, Baikal, SOGo, DAViCal, and WebCalendar — and how to choose the right one.
WebCalendar
Serve your self-hosted WebCalendar over HTTPS by putting Caddy, Nginx, or Traefik in front of the Docker container — including the X-Forwarded-Proto fix that prevents redirect loops and mixed content.
WebCalendar
A step-by-step guide to installing the self-hosted, open-source WebCalendar with Docker Compose — from a one-command quick start to a production-ready setup with MariaDB, persistent data, and backups.
