Update for the week ending on Friday, Oct 18, 2024

mtlynch.io

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

Continued adding support for reviewing TV shows
- Load the metadata for TV shows on the review page
Refactored logic for retrieving metadata
- The previous logic felt too delicate and irregular, so the new implementation looks a lot more like the rest of my code
Fix naming convention on sortBy URL parameter so that it matches the dominant naming conventions for URL query params
Move logic for parsing search queries into url_parse.go

Updated to go 1.23
- And then fixed something I broke in the process in my Dockerfile
Got rid of extraneous Prepare calls in my SQLite queries
- I was always just making a single query, so it didn’t make sense to prepare a statement instead of executing it instantly
Added errcheck to the build
Updated the Nix flake to my new preferred style
Switched to smaller CircleCI instances for deploys
Refactored duplicated CI images

Downloaded the first website I ever published
- Mike’s Creatures Chat
- I published the site when I was 11
- It was a fan site for the game Creatures, and I started the site before I’d even played the game just because I was so excited about it.
- I recovered this from the Wayback Machine since the attack on them last week scared me into realizing how they have the only copy of this site
- I downloaded the site using wayback_machine_downloader
Sent my first demand letter
- A company sold me a defective product and then deleted my review, so I’m going to see what happens if I start the process of taking them to small claims court
Argued with insurance about coverage for a lactation pump
- They refuse to reimburse for sales tax, which seems bizarre, as if I have the option of just not paying sales tax when I buy things
Improved my family home videos website
- Fixed video sorting by date
- Improved controls on mobile
Chopped up six months’ worth of ribeye steaks and froze them