Update for the week ending on Friday, Jun 28, 2024

mtlynch.io

Sent out payment links to everyone who signed up to express interest
Held first session of live course
Sent out feedback survey to class
Revised slides for lesson 1
Booked a guest speaker for lesson 2
Started updating slides for future lessons
Accepted a payment in USDC
- Neat but kind of confusing
- I thought it was its own blockchain, but it’s apparently a token on several blockchains
- You can’t just give someone your “USDC address” like you can with BTC or ETH. Instead you give them your address on the particular chain.
Created a class mailing list for announcements

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

Reimplemented review comment functionality in htmx
- I’m continuing to like htmx. It lets me replace a lot of brittle, ad-hoc JS code with type-checked, testable Go code
Simplified my search interface for TMDB
Fixed CSP for htmx
Started to reimplement title search in htmx

Contributed documentation to htmx
Made readonly variables explicitly readonly
- Rejected by maintainer
Deleted dead code
- Rejected by maintainer
Deleted trailing whitespace from a bunch of files in the book
- Seems to be ignored

Tried out TinyPilot 2.6.4
Did monthly bookkeeping
Mounted TV with new wall mount
Got a haircut
Replaced most of my smoke alarms
- One started chirping at 2 AM, and it turned out most of the alarms in my house were nearing their 10 year EOL
Moved new chest freezer to basement
Migrated to TrueNAS Scale