Update for the week ending on Friday, May 17, 2024

TinyPilot

• Completed moved out of TinyPilot office.
• Closed another unused TinyPilot credit card.
• 1:1 with Scott

mtlynch.io

• Hired an illustrator
• Started an illustrator on their second post
• Gave feedback to the finalist illustrators
• Continued working on next post

zenith

zenith 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.

• Upgraded to Zig 0.12.0

Exploding Servers

• Experimented with htmx
  • It’s interesting!
  • For a long time, I avoided it because I thought it was incompatible with CSP, but when I tried it today, it seems to be mostly compatible with CSP.
    • I’m not sure if that’s a change or something I just didn’t realize was true before.
  • It could solve a problem I have where I feel like I have to implement elements once in HTML at page render time and then another time in JavaScript when the page changes in response to user actions.
  • Exploding Servers is a good project to experiment with htmx because it’s still very early.

Home maintenance

• Got rid of old pegboard in basement
• Got quote for new mini split

Misc

• Did monthly bookkeeping
• Moved my TrueNAS server to a nice Sliger case
  • Now it’s rack mounted, whereas before it was sitting on a box at the bottom of my rack, preventing the rack from being wheeled
• Split a bunch of logs
  • I forgot how fun it is!
  • I split a bunch of logs from a felled tree years ago, but then I got to logs that were too big to split with a regular ax
  • I bought a sledgehammer and wedge, and now I can split way more of the large logs.