Update for the week ending on Friday, Aug 9, 2024

mtlynch.io

• Published July retrospective
• Updated TinyPilot on the project page
• Fixed formatting in a few blockquotes

Hit the Front Page of Hacker News

• Recorded two more lessons
  • I had a bad reaction to sunscreen or pest repellent over the weekend that prevented me from recording most of the week
• Edited three lesson recordings
• Split up more lessons into smaller chapters
• Landing page
  • Pushed back launch date to 2025
  • Added a testimonial
  • Adjusted the CTA to give it a little more attention
• Personal Best (HN score aggregator to promote the course)
  • Added support for viewing on mobile
  • Added an option for aggregating over last 5 years
  • Rearranged table size control to be on the bottom

ScreenJournal

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

• Added support for half-star ratings (e.g., 3 1/2 stars)
  • Refactored star ratings in preparation of the change
  • The final implementation stores the score out of 10 and just displays the result to the user out of 5
• Upgraded to Litestream 0.3.13
• Adjusted litestream config options to store longer backups
  • The database is really small, so it’s cheap to store a lot more snapshots

Misc

• Tried contributing to Shotcut, but I found the maintainer’s response pretty rude, so I decided to stop bothering.
• Got an annual blood test
• Installed a bidet
• Completed hypnobirthing classes