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“Week 21/2026” by Yash Garg

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Notes for May 17-24

My sinuses are still giving me grief, but this week was much more successful at pretending to be enjoyable, at least. For starters, we watched Project Hail Mary, and it was every b(...)

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#weeklyreview 21/2026

Summary

Still fiddling with the Evernote migration to Paperless. Very good organ concert in Prenzlau.

Evernote to Paperless Migration

Still importing old Evernote documents into my Paperless instance. Takes a while to churn through 10GB of archived data and index them all again. But Paperless is doing it quite well.

Now that I have all my data in my own system with proper API access I’m experimenting with an app to improve the Paperless Metadata. While Paperless is already using OCR and machine learning to classify and tag documents, I thought maybe I can improve on that by using beefier AI modules on my Mac. Let’s see how that turns out. Was also playing around with Paperless AI a bit. That’s a software that tries to provide an AI interface for paperless so that you can search in natural language and get AI answers based on your documents. I’m not yet fully convinced of that piece.

Was searching for a Paperless MCP and only found an NPM package. That is a security nightmare lately so I went on asking Claude Code for Rust MCP for Paperless NGX.

After about 30 mins that was ready and now my LLM is adding document summaries to a customer field in my Paperless instance.

Organ concert

On Sunday we went to the last session of the opening concerts of the new organ in the St. Marien church in Prenzlau. That old church was severely destroyed during WWII and only after the 1970s restoration began. While the building has a roof and floor again, the organ was missing. Eventually they found an old Scottish organ from 1904 which was donated by former West Parish Church Kilbarchan in Scotland to this building. Now it is in full operation and was christened on the weekend.

The organist was very well versed with these majestic instruments and picked songs that demonstrated the full glory of the instrument and the building. You could literally feel the thundering bass of the large pipes. But also the quiet and bird-like passages of the small pipes came out perfectly. Looking forward to hear and see many more concerts in that magnificent building.

Maintenance

just realised I actually published this weekly review too early … thats new…

Anyway… yesterday I did some needed maintenance on my Jenkins server. That trusty old PC that’s been waking up whenever there is a new Mastodon release. It’s supposed to pull the sources, apply my 5000 character patch and build a new Docker image and publish it. So that my Dockhand can automatically update my Mastodon instances.

Machine woke up, but build failed when 4.5.10 was released. So I had to look into it. Jenkins was heavily complaining that it’s outdated and the Java version I was using wasn’t supported any longer. So I started the OS and Jenkins updates. But that was painfully slow on the wired network. The wired network was coming via PowerLine but had less than 1 MBit/s bandwidth. So I had to dig out an old WiFi USB stick to improve the network bandwidth. Fortunately that worked. Odd enough PowerLine was meant to fix bad WiFi …

Once the machine and Jenkins was up to date, the Mastodon build succeeded. But there was another build of the alternative Fediverse Web Interface Elk that was also failing. Complaining about an Out of Memory issue when doing JavaScript compilation. Checked the repo and found out that this is not yet really fixed in Elk’s Dockerfile. The workaround is to add some parameters to the Dockerfile to use a bigger heap.

The formal way would have been to create a patch file for the Dockerfile, put it somewhere (in my own repo) and let Jenkins apply the patch after checkout of the Sources.

But I considered that too much hassle for a single line to add to the Dockerfile. There must be an easier solution to that. And of course the good old Linux/Unix tools came to the rescue. Turns out sed can insert a single line at a specified location into a text file:

that was the single line I needed to add to the Jenkins build instructions before calling the simple docker build. I love it.

#weeklyreview 20/2026

Summary

Movie, rage quitting Evernote and a plant bazar in the village

Berlin in the 1980s

Last week I watched “Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo” for the first time with kiddo. I roughly knew the story but had never seen the actual movie.

First thing that I noticed was how clean Berlin streets seemed to be. The movie is supposed to be a documentary about the dire situation of drug addicted kids in the 1970s in West-Berlin. So one would expect to see disgusting dirt and filth. And of course there was that when the kids take their drugs in the public toilets and all that. But even these looked cleaner than we you see today in public bathrooms and the street.

Overall I liked the movie. The cast and make-up is really good. The dialogues are very dry though. I can’t tell whether people in West-Berlin would have really talked like that. But it didn’t felt natural at all to me. Nevertheless great movie with great soundtrack and appearance by David Bowie himself.

Evernote enshittification

I was an early on user of Evernote, the note taking app that started in 2008 and allowed to synchronise notes across devices as well as richt content notes.

I had a paid account for decades and poured all my scanned documents and notes into it. I stayed with the company because the tool just worked, and thought I’d understand their business model to be around for a long time. Because that’s what you want for an document archive and 2nd brain, right?

I don’t know about the exact economics but apparently the base of paying users wasn’t big enough to sustain the company. Or to make enough profit for the owners. They eventually sold to the infamous Bending Spoons company. An Italian company that started buying former famous internet stars like Evernote, Vimeo and Komoot. Quickly firing all the staff just to run the service centrally with their own team and tweak the commercialisation.

That of course was a shitty move, but I thought at least it’s not a US big tech. Apparently that has changed as well. Last time I opened Evernote desktop I was presented with a big announcement that the service is now fulfilled by Bending Spoons US. In addition they are again raising the prices for the yearly subscription from around 90 EUR to around 135 EUR. For me that’s the final straw to eventually move away.

For years I was also primarily pumping all my scanned documents into my self-hosted Paperless NGX instance. This services my primary purpose of a searchable document archive. My written notes currently live in Joplin which I also sync via my own webdav server.

Still I needed to find a way to backup my Evernote data and eventually import the old data into Paperless. Since Paperless only stores Documents in PDF format I had to find a way to turn Evernote rich notes into a PDF. Most of my notes were PDF documents anyway. Some were richt text notes with images embedded.

Of course I ended up vibe coding a Python script which consumes the Evernote export files, renders them as PDF and uploads them to Paperless. This seems to work quite well. For notes that contain PDF documents I append the PDF to the Evernote note (which might contain additional text beside the PDF document in the note). Now my trusty Paperless is churning through the thousands of old notes and I’ll cancel my Evernote subscription. Let’s see what will happen to the account of the subscription is not prolonged…

Plant bazar

On Saturday we had our annual plant bazar in the village. That was again a huge success. More than 50 people turned up to share and swap their seedling and other plants. We provided coffee, tea and some people chipped in with self-made cakes.

I was really surprised to see that many people showing up from our village but also from the villages around ours. We hit a nerve with the plant bazar apparently. Of course we’re in the countryside and agriculture or rather garden cultures seems to be the literal common ground 🙂

Today: La notte milanese di Michele Morrone su una supercar da oltre 300 mila euro: l'ipotesi sulla nuova fidanzata popstar

Nuova paparazzata milanese per Michele Morrone. Il settimanale Chi, in edicola questa settimana, ha condiviso nuove foto dell'attore in compagnia della popstar Sevdaliza. I due avrebbero trascorso una serata insieme a Milano.L’attore, diventato celebre a livello internazionale grazie al film 365...

Michele Morrone’s Milan night on a supercar worth over €300,000: the theory about the new popstar girlfriend

New Milanese gossip for Michele Morrone. Weekly magazine Chi, on sale this week, has shared new photos of the actor in company with popstar Sevdaliza. The two reportedly spent a night together in Milan. The actor, who became internationally famous thanks to the film 365…

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