I mentioned in a previous post that I am working on a CalDav server (creative as always I named it LazerBunny cal), to take control of my appointments and calendaring needs. The first iteration was working decently well with Apple Calendar. During this week I fixed a few issues making it also work nicely with any calendar app that uses Evolution as its backend.
I am closing in on 30 years in the industry. One thing I did not imagine when I just started out was that the list of “things I have seen” would constantly grow over the decades. How naive I was, believing people know what they are doing, management making decisions based on data and the market not being a dice roll for who can lie the best. On the bright side this makes for some really good stories.
As I was working on new tools for my personal assistant this week, I ended up adding web search and thereby getting the content of a website to the toolbox. Automating anything web related in 2026 is a pretty annoying experience, and with good reason. It is understandable that website owners add scraping safeguards, considering the state of the web. Luckily, when you build tools to behave well, things are manageable.
Valve announced the Steam Machine and its price(s), causing much unrest online. Some saw it coming, some are disappointed, some have a more realistic view that this is the price of non-subsidized hardware in 2026. I think the price is fine for what you get, but you should not be paying it if you are comfortable building a computer yourself.
There are good ideas, bad ideas and the ideas I get when sitting on a couch holding the paw of my dog for two weeks (while she is recovering from surgery). One thing I am really not a fan of is the current landscape of CalDav servers. So what better to do than read some RFCs while a coding agent bootstraps a “kind of not working but close enough” skeleton that I can make actually work in between treats, all the pets required for recovery and "who is the best girl?! YOU ARE THE BEST GIRL!".