Update for the week ending on Friday, Jan 19, 2024

TinyPilot

Management

Paid North Carolina sales tax
- It took me four hours this quarter to pay $350 in taxes…
Sent W9 forms to my accountant
Started planning for our contract manufacturer to take over returns processing

Software development

Added a convenience script for searching the TinyPilot database
Wrote clearer instructions for populating our .env files.
Provisioned access to a storage bucket for a new, experimental development workflow

mtlynch.io

Added my notes on using ArchiveBox
Added instructions for how to give attribution when people republish or adapt my posts
Continued working on my year 6 review post
Blocked scraping from well-known LLM bots
Fixed a bug in my year five annual review that was causing it to show data past my fifth year in the finances graph

ScreenJournal

ScreenJournal is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.

Added a Nix flake
Added unit tests for parsing movie IDs

resticpy

Gave feedback on PR structure to a third-party contributor

PicoShare is a minimalist web-based file sharing tool I’m working on. I’m often frustrated that I can’t just send someone a link directly to a file because every file-sharing service tries to re-encode images/video or wrap their own viewer around other files, so I’m making a simple self-hostable tool that lets you upload files and share them with other people.

Reviewed a third-party contribution to improve mime type handling

Misc

Booked travel for an upcoming trip
Shoveled a lot of snow
Visited three houses for sale
Set up nightly backups for my Github repos
- I want to have a copy locally in case I ever lose access to my Github account