Update for the week ending on Friday, Sep 6, 2024

On paternity leave

mtlynch.io

Started my next monthly retrospective
Wrote up my notes about Noah Bragg’s livestream for creating an Ethereum-based game
Refactored the project’s Nix flake: (clearer package source names, more economical package references)

Hit the Front Page of Hacker News

Tried tweaking the wording in my mtlynch.io self-ad
- Didn’t make much of a difference, not really attracting many visitors

Refactoring English

Dusted off the repo so I could push changes again
Updated the release date to 2025 (pushed back from 2021 and then 2023)
Added a Nix flake for building and serving the site locally
Upgraded the tech stack to new versions of Hugo and Node.js

NixOS setup

Fixed an error that kept popping up on my login screen about fingerprint reader (which I don’t have): services.fprintd.enable = false;
Pinned the kernel to a newer version than NixOS 24.05’s default: boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_6_10;
- I was seeing issues with brief system hangs and failures to resume from hibernate. I haven’t encountered either since applying this kernel.

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.

Worked on migrating to a Go SQLite library that supports blob I/O
- I started this four months ago and got stuck and have only worked on it intermittently
- But then the maintainer of the library popped up and helped me
- So at this point, I have it mostly working but I have to figure out how to port over old data
- Contributed back clarifying documentation to the SQLite library
Refactored my Nix flake

Misc

Got a haircut