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2026-06-02

Messing around with a bad back in stormy weather

I made a bad movement in the shower this morning and made my back scream again, so no woodworking today. One of the benefits of retirement is that I get to choose the days activities.

I had installed SearxNG previously more than two years ago, but as I'm constantly fiddling it wound up in the bin.

Convalescing in the armchair I saw that my current vps is mostly idle running just snac2, my blog, xmpp, gophernicus and other bits, so I reinstalled SearxNG.

It's fast, responsive, and private. I have it behind an Nginx reverse proxy, and only accepting my own IP address for now.

Another thing I did was to play around with the Fresh editor. Like Micro, it can be configured to use prettier, the code formatter. Ok, it's written in Rust, but it is a nice editor with a retro computing vibe. It won't replace Micro as my daily editor, but if I ever need a TUI IDE it could be a good choice.