Update for the week ending on Friday, Jul 5, 2024

mtlynch.io

Published “Configure a Git Shell Prompt Under Nix”

Hit the Front Page of Hacker News

Presented lesson two of course
Scheduled first video interview for course bonus material

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
Prepared upgrade to Zig 0.13.0
- I’m waiting on the ZLS 0.13.0 Nix package to become available

ScreenJournal

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

Switch to htmx for submitting movie reviews
- Switched from a JSON-based API to an HTML-based API with htmx
- Also simplified reviewPostRequest
Consolidated logic for creating reviews and updating views
- They were previously two independent page templates, but they can be a single page template with slight differences
Reimplement review deletion with htmx
Reimplemented notification preferences UI in htmx
Reimplemented password change UI in htmx
Simplify watch date to YYYY-MM-DD format
- I think the longer one was for timezone differences, but I only have users in a single timezone, so it’s a lot of extra complexity for no reason at this point
Adjusted playwright tests to identify form fields by their label rather than CSS selector
- Labels are much less brittle
Improved CSS selectors in Playwright tests
Moved h1 element to the base page template
- It makes the homepage look a little silly, but it’s better than duplicating h1 code on every page.
Made mockMetadataFinder behave deterministically
- It turns out that order when iterating a Go map is not guaranteed, so I switched from a map to a slice
- Obviously slower, but we’re dealing with <5 elements, so performance doesn’t matter
Replaced the "2006-01-02" magic string with the predefined time.DateOnly
Changed Go application logs to print full paths instead of filenames
- Helpful because I have several files with the same filenames in different directories
De-duplicated logic for parsing TMDB release dates
Deleted a dead controller and dead block that were unneeded after switching to htmx

resticpy

Accepted a PR to fix a CI break
Updating contributing guidelines
Accepted a PR to add support for --tags and --host arguments to snapshots command
Cut 1.0.6 release

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.

Switched to long paths in server logs
Switched to time.DateOnly instead of "2006-01-02" magic string

Dusty VCR

Published “Episode 28: Air Bud (w/ Molly Hynes)”

Framework 13 Laptop

Ordered and received my first Framework 13 laptop
After 10+ years exclusively on Microsoft Surface laptops and Windows, I’m trying to switch away
Installed NixOS and am trying to make that the only OS
- I don’t have it quite configured how I want, but I’m making progress
I’ve only had a few hours to test it, but:
- One of the best unboxing experiences I’ve had of any products ever
- I was dreading having to put together a laptop, but the instructions were so clear and the process was so straightforward that it was fun and satisfying
- Hardware kill switch for camera and mic is really nice
- I’ve run into some strange issues with the power button where it seems to not wake from sleep sometimes unless I hold power down, so I need to dig further into that

Misc

Visited German embassy
Harassed insurance about baby expenses
Got measurements for new blinds
Scheduled exterminator to treat for termites
Shopped for stroller and nursing chair