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WebCalendar v1.9.22 adds MCP write and scheduling tools so AI agents can manage your calendar, a WordPress export page, 77 restored translations, an upgrade fix, and UI polish. The post WebCalendar v1.9.22 Released: AI Scheduling via MCP, WordPress Export, and 77 Restored Translations appeared first on k5n.us .
If you ve ever tried to run a busy calendar on WordPress, you ve probably hit the wall. Most calendar plugins store every event as a WordPress post, and somewhere past a few hundred events the admin slows to a crawl — with the front end not far behind. For a small events page that s fine. For [ ] The post A WordPress Calendar Plugin That Scales to 100,000 Events appeared first on k5n.us .
A few weeks ago I typed this into a terminal: Set up a recurring team standup on weekday mornings, but skip Fridays. A couple of seconds later my calendar showed a proposed event — and then it stopped and waited. It didn t save anything. It showed me the fully expanded recurrence (every occurrence, in my [ ] The post From a Sentence to a Calendar Event: Building a Human-in-the-Loop Scheduling…
Years ago I wrote ILib, a small C library for reading, drawing on, and saving images. It has always been one of my favorite little projects — simple, dependency-light, and genuinely handy. Recently I ported it to Go as ilibgo, and along the way it picked up a few new tricks I m excited to show [ ] The post Generate QR Codes, Charts, and More in Pure Go with ilibgo appeared first on k5n.us .
It has been far too long since I ve written about Virginia basketball — and honestly, so much has changed that I barely know where to start. Last time I really checked in, Tony Bennett was still patrolling the sideline and the Pack Line was gospel. Since then we ve had a stunning retirement, a bumpy interim [ ] The post A Lot Has Changed: Catching Up on Virginia Basketball appeared first on k5n.us…
Here s something I ve wanted for a long time: asking my calendar questions in plain English. As of WebCalendar 1.9.16, you can. WebCalendar now ships an MCP server — Model Context Protocol support — so you can connect an AI assistant like Claude directly to your self-hosted calendar and say things like What s on my calendar [ ] The post How to Connect Claude to Your WebCalendar with MCP appeared…
A practical comparison of the best open-source, self-hosted Google Calendar alternatives in 2026 — Nextcloud, Radicale, Baikal, SOGo, DAViCal, and WebCalendar — and how to choose the right one. The post Best Self-Hosted Google Calendar Alternatives in 2026 (Open Source) appeared first on k5n.us .
Serve your self-hosted WebCalendar over HTTPS by putting Caddy, Nginx, or Traefik in front of the Docker container — including the X-Forwarded-Proto fix that prevents redirect loops and mixed content. The post Run WebCalendar Behind a Reverse Proxy with HTTPS (Caddy, Nginx, Traefik) appeared first on k5n.us .
A step-by-step guide to installing the self-hosted, open-source WebCalendar with Docker Compose — from a one-command quick start to a production-ready setup with MariaDB, persistent data, and backups. The post How to Install WebCalendar with Docker Compose (Step-by-Step Guide) appeared first on k5n.us .
I m excited to share my latest project: k5n-mcp-hub, a small, local-first hub for the MCP servers you build and run on your own machine. The code, docs, and a Dockerfile are on GitHub: https://github.com/craigk5n/k5n-mcp-hub The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the way to connect AI assistants to tools, data, and services. If you [ ] The post k5n-mcp-hub: A Local Control Plane — and…