Update for the week ending on Friday, Feb 16, 2024

TinyPilot

Management

• Continued preparing financial reports for TinyPilot
• Three 1:1s with teammates
• Documented more of TinyPilot’s release process
  • Documented how to write changelog updates
  • Started documenting how to write blog post release announcements
  • Started documenting how to write security advisories

Software development

• Tested our new release script
  • I used to publish releases through the Github UI, but it’s more repeatable as a script anyone can run

Customer support

• Removed dead links on TinyPilot website to the /r/tinypilot subreddit

Sales

• Switched our mailing list from EmailOctopus to Buttondown

mtlynch.io

• Published My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
  • It hit #1 on Hacker News
• Published my notes for Strong Towns
  • These had been sitting in my drafts at 90% done for like a year.

ScreenJournal

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

• Added a convenience script for creating a new page
• Moved the metadata finder interface to the packages that consume it rather than the package that defines it

PicoShare

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.

• Added richer information about disk usage
  • Before
  • After
• Updated the demo server
  • I hadn’t updated it in a couple of years, as I have to make manual adjustments to prevent it from being abused
• Allow user to dismiss error message on settings page
• Fixed minor UI bug on settings page
• Handle server errors on guest link page more robustly

eth-zvm

eth-zvm is an experimental implementation of the Ethereum virtual machine in pure Zig. I probably won’t implement the whole thing, but it’s a fun way to play around with Zig on a project where Zig does seem to actually be the right tool.

• Implemented partial support for PUSH1, MSTORE, and RETURN opcodes
  • I outperform the official Go implementation by about 2x, though I’m cheating by implementing only a subset of the functionality.

Home maintenance

• Fixed some chipped paint spots around the house
• Repaired damage to a door frame by using wood putty