"...try to keep your
mite count below 3..."

So that means the fact that it looks like I could make a poppy seed bagel is BAD, right?

#Beekeeping

The time is ripe for swarms. A second one showed up today and started cleaning out an empty box.

#beekeeping

#weeklyreview 22/2026

That first super hot day … in may. Fortunately only one day at a sweltering 30º C. The rest of the week was much more acceptable.

I did saw people post pictures of fallen green leaves claiming that the trees in Berlin are shedding their leaves because of the heat. That of course was utter bullshit as it rained quite heavily the week before and our trees don’t shed their leaves at a mere 30º C. I get climate catastrophe urgency. But bluntly and stupidly faking stuff doesn’t help anyone.

The countryside is very beautiful at this time of the year. Lush green and flowers and blossoms all over the place. We’re quite blessed over here.

Our bees have produced the first bucket full of honey. It’s our first honey since we’ve got them bees two years ago. We’re expecting to get around 50kg of honey this year. And we’ve grown from 2 bee hives to 3. Eventually taking over the beekeeping family tradition that went from my grandfather to my father in law and now to my wife and me.

Paperless NGX MCP

I started creating an MCP server for Paperless NGX. My intention was for me to talk to an LLM and have it modify/improve my Paperless documents. Paperless itself already got quite good AI models to do auto-tagging and detect the best correspondent and document type etc.

But I wanted to be able to have a document summary automatically created and also check whether a more powerful model would be able to improve on the tags etc.

I had searched for an existing MCP server. But the one I found didn’t actually work. Guess it was outdated and also fiddly to install. I don’t like the NPM based software as the NPM repository seems to be a huge security risk these days for all the worms infecting packages.

So I started to create an MCP server in Rust with the help of Claude Code. That worked out quite well and I’ve now got a working MCP that is just a single binary you can drop on your machine. Not additional stuff to be downloaded or installed. I’ve also started to write some skills for Claude and OpenCode to encapsulate my Paperless improvement prompts.

Iris Photos App

Stumbled across the Iris Photos app on Mastodon. This looks interesting and I gave it a try. It started to index my rather large photo archive which lives on my home NFS server. That’s more than 2 TB of data and hundred thousands of picture a few thousand videos. I wasn’t patient enough to let it finish. But I keeps picking up the task whenever I connect the NFS mount again. Definitely spend the 14 bucks of an introductory price as the app looks very promising to me. Especially like the stats feature 😉

Linux rules

Got a beautiful old notebook from a friend. An HP Spectre x360 with an Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM and 256GB SATA SSD. Probably about 10 years old. The screen can be folded so the device doubles as a touch tablet. The screen is quite good although I still don’t get what you’d use a touchscreen on a notebook for 😉

I’ve put Debian Linux with LXQT desktop on it, everything work out of the box and it feels like brand new. Unfortunately the RAM is soldered to the board. But at least the dead battery is swappable and I might order a new one. Quite love this device for it has a usable screen with good resolution and good colours and angle visibility.

Zucchini Schnitzel

Had left over Zucchini and prepared it like a german Schnitzel with egg and breadcrumbs and then pan fried it. Quite delicious and pretty simple to fix.

Jugend Kella PopChor

Last weekend the Jugend Kella PopChor from Templin was on their world tour and visited our little village. The kids played life in front of our church and it was marvellous. Great to see their talent and enthusiasm. Also great to see how much the rather old population of our village enjoyed the event.

🐝 BREAKING NEWS: Our School Bees Have Swarmed! 🐝

https://www.steinerskolen-norge.no/display/edecf743-156a-1db3-208a-597261721044

A swarm decided to show up this evening while we were out.

#beekeeping

After some sad losses in recent times, we're back to a stable situation wrt bee colonies. One hive is really busy & we've been lucky enough to spin off some early honey.

#norfolk #beekeeping