13 june 2026
Some troubles yesterday with the envs administration
I had some troubles yesterday with ~creme about the
decision making on the EnvsBot which I
developed clearly with the envs pubnix in mind. I know envs is ~creme's project
but he should leave some control to the people, who really want to improve envs.
Unfortunately ~creme always threatens me to use his fork of EnvsBot for the
project (which he can, because it's FOSS), and take control of the whole EnvsBot
project for envs, leaving me with practically nothing to contribute to envs
besides my donations.
I want envs to develop and flourish, and I also want to invest something other
than money in envs, namely time and work with different projects. And at the
moment my main contribution is the EnvsBot. But I would like to have some
assurance that the bot is kept under my control. I think I've proven that I
don't want to harm envs in any way. I'm just in a really shitty situation.
Up until now ~creme didn't take control of the EnvsBot, but if we disagree
about something, there's always the threat that ~creme will take control of the
bot from me, and I believe that if ~creme gets fed up with the disagreements
that inevitably arise, that's what will happen.
I don't want to give up on envs because in the short time I've been a member
I've already invested so much time, work and money to improve envs, but I don't
know how to react if ~creme takes away my control of the bot.
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10 june 2026
EnvsBot Main Script also refactored
I now also refactored the envsbot.py main script to reduce complexity. So it was
ready for a new release
tag v1.2.0.
Happy testing!
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09 june 2026
Finally finished to refactor overly complex functions
I finished the general cleanup now completely and also refactored all functions
which have been shown to be too complex, except the main bot script, which has
still 3 functions which are still a little too big.
But for today I'm satisfied with my work and will continue with the main script
(maybe) tomorrow. I'm tired and haven't slept much during the last days, so I
think I'll sleep late tomorrow, so I'm not sure.
The only thing I still have to do, is to upload and update the recent running
EnvsBot. Then I'll call it a day!
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08 june 2026
EnvsBot v1.1.0 release
Just did some general cleanup of the whole codebase and the Unit Test files. I
also fixed some minor things and began to refactor functions which have become
too complex.
The next thing I'll take care of, is a better online Help Documentation, that
all features are covered the right way. The docs are a little outdated although
not much changed on how to use the bot. But I'll try to make the Online Help
more uniform and have the same look overall.
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05 june 2026
First major release of EnvsBot
Today I released the version v1.0.0 of the
EnvsBot,
which is the first major release of it.
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04 june 2026
A lazy day
Not much happened today. Probably the whole weekend will be this way. I believe
I won't do much anyway.
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02 june 2026
Got some trouble in the "lounge" channel
In the last few days I had some trouble in the lounge XMPP room on the envs
server. Did something really stupid :( I hope I can fix and clear this up again.
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25 may 2026
I had to update my homelab yesterday, but I'm too lazy...
I'm bored and lazy the last days. I didn't even work on the EnvsBot, which is a
source of joy most of the time. But the last days, I did simply nothing! I
also didn't update my homelab, which I normally do every Sunday. I hope I'll
overcome this phase of boredom and lazyness soon.
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19 may 2026
A nice Tuesday morning
I just woke up and the sun is already shining. It's around 07:00 and seems to
become a beautiful day. I just hope that the summer won't get that hot like
some years in the past. I can forego that. 28°C are enough!
The development of the EnvsBot is settling slowly
The updates are getting slowly fewer and are reducing to mainly bug fixes. That
doesn't mean, development has stopped! No! It just means we approach version
v1.0.0! ~creme is working on a configuration file
validator still, so it fails to start up if there are any errors in the
config.json file. It should also output a log warning, if the vcard string in
vcard.py doesn't contain some valid <vCard/> XML (it will work without,
so there probably won't be a hard error).
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16 may 2026
A lazy Saturday
I just pushed some improvements to the "rss" plugin for the EnvsBot. Otherwise I
didn't do much. Was pretty lazy. I even didn't bring out the litter to the
wastebin outside. I'll do that tomorrow at first short after having my first
coffee and being fully awake! I promise!
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15 may 2026
EnvsBot v0.5.0-BETA released
- Updated minimum Python3 version to 3.12
- Created a full test suite - we now have 68% code coverage, I'm not sure if we
can get any better.
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13 may 2026
More test units for EnvsBot
- Added tests for plugins "_admin", "_reg_profile", "birthday_notify" and "dice"
- Updated minimum version of python to >=3.12
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12 may 2026
Finally moved from ISC DHCP to dnsmasq
I finally managed to move my OpnSense router from the deprecated ISC DHCP to the
now recent dnsmasq DNS/DHCP server. dnsmasq now can resolve dynamic IPv6
addresses and has a lot of small other benefits for small home networks.
Merged a few PRs from ~creme 👍:
- EnvsBot: Persist duck spawn counters across restarts
- EnvsBot: Refactor poll plugin to use core helpers
I also began to develop a test suite for the EnvsBot. At the moment we have a
coverage of 13%. If we reach 70-80% I think we can release the first major
version.
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11 may 2026
Monday's progress
Not doing much over the day, just relaxing on the couch. Continuing development
when it get's dark.
- EnvsBot "rooms" plugin: Made eventhandler more robust and JOINED_ROOMS
variable more accurate.
- EnvsBot "tools" plugin: Added "joined rooms" to the ",seen" plugin. Will
output an error if user is offline.
- Updates: Updated my homelab (one day overdue)
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10 may 2026
Second EnvsBot BETA
- EnvsBot (ducks): FIXED plugin not to ping all users in the ",duck
top|friends|enemies|stats" list
- EnvsBot (karma): FIXED plugin not to ping all users in the ",karma
top|bottom|[nick]" list
- EnvsBot (refactor): Did a little code deduplication
- EnvsBot v0.4.0-BETA: Second BETA version released
- EnvsBot "tools" plugin: added ",seen <nick>" command
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09 may 2026
What I've done today
- EnvsBot: refactored the "_reg_profile" plugin, so now you can add all fields
to the bots vCard that XEP-0054 allows by editing the vCards XML directly in
the vcard.py file (vcard_sample.py provided).
- Finally slept from around 04:00 to 15:30.So after my usual starting problems
and after a cup of coffee, I now feel rested!
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08 may 2026
Work on EnvsBot continues
- EnvsBot: Refactor - deleted some duplicate code
- EnvsBot: Added "acronyms" command (alias "acro") - Example: ',acro lgtm'
- EnvsBot: extended "acronyms" command with a "acronyms remove <acronym>
<description>" to suggest a removal of a wrong acronym.
- EnvsBot: Did a little bit of code cleaning
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07 may 2026
Development of EnvsBot unpaused
We started the development of the EnvsBot again, after a very brief pause.
I already added the "on|off|status" function to enable/disable plugins to the
remaining plugins, so now all plugins can be toggled on/off where applicable for
each room.
The "_core" helper plugin was also extended to contain duplicate code which
partly still needs to be implemented in some plugins.
TODO:
- [X] deploy changes to EnvsBot
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06 may 2026
What am I doing today?
- [X] revise website more ("feels" integration)
- [X] setup urlscan to reliably get URLs from emails in NeoMutt
- [X] Fix /copyurl plugin in profanity to use OSC 52 with primary paste buffer
- [X] Added CoC to NeoVim to check Syntax
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05 may 2026
Webmention support in ttbp progresses
I managed to change the ttbp "feels" blog script to show webmentions!
But no need to change anything. You can leave the divfooter.txt empty or
nonexistent and it has the same behavior as before. If you add for example
<div class="notementions" href="{permalink}"></div>
it will add that empty <div> tag with the permalink at the bottom of the
feels entry's <div>, so now my "feels"
should support webmentions.
Update: It seems bridgy doesn't find my public message with the permalink,
but it does find my reply to it, including the link. Strange...
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04 may 2026
EnvsBot Development Slowdown
I'm a little exausted although it's the beginning of the week and I haven't
done much over the weekend. Maybe because the intense work on the EnvsBot for
the last weeks.
We decided to leave the bot running and stop active development for some
time, except bug fixes of course. We've really done a lot during the last 2
month and decided to take a break.
But don't panic: Development will continue after we had the time to take some
breath.
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