Update for the week ending on Friday, Mar 7, 2025

mtlynch.io

• Published my notes for Never Pay The First Bill

Refactoring English

• Published “How to Write Useful Commit Messages”
• Launched pre-orders for the book on Kickstarter
  • Did all the Kickstarter prep
  • Wrote the story
  • Recorded the intro video

wordword

wordword finds accidental duplicate words in markdown files

• Continued working on switching markdown processing to zigdown

Misc

• Shared 2024 tax documents with accountant
• Installed Snowflake on my free Oracle NixOS server to prevent it from sitting idle all day
• Updated my git config based on gitbutler’s blog post
• Watched Andrew Kelly’s Programming without Pointers talk
• Installed LeechBlockNG to help focus while working
• Did monthly bookkeeping
• Reviewed a third-party contribution to resticpy
• Set up a local LLM on my NixOS system based on this video