Update for the week ending on Friday, Dec 13, 2024

mtlynch.io

• Refactored the img shortcode to reuse attributes
• Refactored the img shortcode to calculate srcset more obviously

Refactoring English

• Continued working on tutorials chapter.
• Restructured the table of contents
  • Moved the chapters that readerrs were more interested in earlier
• Cleaned up the Hugo layouts
• Ported some shortcodes from mtlynch.io

New computer

• Built my new computer
  • This has been one of my hardest builds in memory
  • Gigabyte motherboard manuals are the worst instructions I’ve seen for anything. They don’t even match the product you bought. They’re like “generic motherboard instructions.”
  • The motherboard also has an extra CPU power port that apparently does nothing, but I spent an hour trying to figure out if the identical-looking PCI plug would fit it.
  • Linux seems not to recognize the onboard NIC, but it’s okay because I wanted a 10 G fiber NIC for it anyway, and it recognizes the fiber NIC.
• Got NixOS working at a basic level
  • Had some trouble getting it to recognize my ultrawide monitor, but I used an LLM to find the right configuration.

ScreenJournal

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

• Round watch dates to years after 23 months
  • I’m surprised I’ve been working on this for two years already.
• Make ScreenJournal actually respect the timezone
• Adjust serve-docker so that optional environment variables are actually optional

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.

• Reviewed an external contribution that added support for file expire times on guest links
  • And reviewed a bugfix for the change
• Got rid of FileLifetime.Duration method
  • I realized it was kind of a code smell to break the encapsulation
• Updated contributor guidelines
• Refactored guest link tests to make the user context more obvious
• Added a clock interface to the server struct to improve testability
• Added an example .env file

Misc

• Made computer troubleshooting instructions for a friend
• Met with another founder
• Experimented with git-crypt
  • Really easy to get up and running.
• Started experimenting with a service to warn me about leaving my door open
  • My smart lock can detect when the door is open, so I’m going to try to write a script that triggers an alert whenever it’s been left open for longer than we probably mean to.
• Went mildly viral on Twitter for complaining about Gumroad
• Got a haircut