2 February 2026

Quite a productive weekend and Monday. I've tidied away all of the kit that was spread over the floor of the loft, and pushed the last of the bits from the garage that were around the flat up there as well. Still a few bits to sort, but they are at least tidy. A large box of parts arrived from the MERG kitting service and I can now at least sort that into boxes and keep it all together in the loft.

Having pushed stuff up, I have pulled a few things down, and today I managed to get the Windows XP machine to boot after fitting a new CR2032 battery. So I've got the Taig mill machine computer working, and all the stepper motors are sitting next to the machine ready to reinstall. The problem with actually using it will be the noise of the Cress spindle, but I may just try it with the Dremel initially as that is a lot quieter.

Software wise, I sorted a number of niggles with the website software and finally have the global search working again. It was tracked as I expected to problems with the namespaces. I need to use the BitweaverLiberty namespace for anything that the core liberty code calls from third party packages and we are in business. I've also tracked the problem with keeping the github copy in sync and making sure I can cleanly commit new changes. So I can keep that up to date via VSCode.

I;ve also fixed the Cookbook app in Nextcloud and have imported a few BBC Food recipes so now I can play with that. The problem it seams was down to not having npm installed on the server and while the bug report instructions attempted to allow me to build the app manually, all that was ACTUALLY stopping Nextcloud installing it itself was the lack of that. Remove and reinstall after laoding npm and I was in business. It would perhaps have been nice if the installer had flagged the lack. I've not needed it for anything else on that service!