Update for the week ending on Friday, Jul 12, 2024

mtlynch.io

Published my June retrospective
Published a short note “GUIs are Antisocial”

Hit the Front Page of Hacker News

Taught lesson 3 of the course
Recorded the first bonus material: an interview with Adam Gordon Bell
Wrote a (currently hacky) script to identify the most popular personal bloggers on Hacker News
- I’m planning to release this as a free web tool to get attention to the course once it’s ready

Is It Keto

Put the site up for sale on my blog
- I got 8 inquiries, so I closed up applications since I think there’s probably a good buyer in the applications already
Updated the Beyond Burger article, which a reader pointed out was out of date, as they changed the recipe

ScreenJournal

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

Allow leading or trailing spaces in reviews
- This was something I used to do in the client, but I’ve simplified with htmx, so now the backend needs to be more liberal in what it accepts

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.

Experimented with migrating from mattn/sqlite3 to ncruces/sqlite3
- I still don’t have it working
- The appeal of ncrcuces is that it supports streaming I/O, so it could potentially be much more performant
- ncruces also doesn’t require cgo, which makes packaging slightly easier
Added a convenience script for running a single unit test
Simplify how I set GOROOT in my Nix flake

Misc

Attended a childbirth class
Created a birth plan
Attended the monthly Luthier’s comedy show
Continued configuring NixOS on my Framework 13
Submitted a UI fix to tars.run