Monthly report: February 2026

Early because it was a pretty uneventful month, again

Highlights of the month:

• Sweetpea seeds came up like a rocket
• Steady progress migrating websites, backups etc.
• WithKnown is getting some love (and changed its name)
• Met up with a schoolfriend not seen in 55 years
• Good memorial for a good friend
• BirdNET-Pi! and Pi-hole!
• Scored a Chimonanthus for the terrace
• Impressionists from the Detroit Art Institute at the Ara Pacis
• Crocheted a neck thing for The Squeeze
• Warm enough to start working on the plants semi-regularly
• iMac screen is on the bloody fritz.

Activities

February:

• Walking with sticks: 0
• Reading: 26
• Steps (avge): 7804
• Podcasts: 10 (all of them logged)
• In bed/asleep 7:49/7:40
• Cycled: 0
• Weight (avge): 89.8
• Naps: 11

January:

• Walking with sticks: 0
• Reading: 28
• Steps (avge): 7047
• Podcasts: 16 (all of them logged)
• In bed/asleep 8:19/8:10
• Cycled: 0
• Weight (avge): 89.6
• Naps: 23

Stuff Done

Continuing to move things over the Hetzner, although I am aware of some reluctance to pull the switch on this, the main site. Can't quite work out why, as I know I have all the failsafe I need in place. Just something seems to make me hesitate. Maybe tomorrow ...

I've also had a bit of success getting ChatGPT to help me automate some little things. If I write a reasonably tight spec that describes plainly what I would like to happen, it often gets there on a first go, and that is helping to automate little tasks so they get done and get done accurately and without errors.

Hours logged per month

Percent of logged hours

Previous years are still on an archive page.

Goals

Twelve blog posts. Yes, many of them report on disasters recovered from, but this month I think that's OK.

Niggles

Hosting remains hard. So is keeping WithKnown Idno up to date now that it is being maintained regularly.

Final remarks

It's a lot of fun looking at what the BirdNET-Pi was up to while I slept though the dawn chorus, but it would be good to work out some way to summarise and record what's going on. I think a cumulative species graph would be one thing, and a detections per day by weeks. It would have to be automated, somehow. I've got enough manual-till-it-hurts stuff going on.

Here’s the table