Update for the week ending on Friday, Jun 27, 2025

mtlynch.io

• Published “My First Impressions of Gleam”
• Added CORS headers for my RSS feeds
  • It means you can theoretically fetch my blog via JavaScript now
• Continued working on blog post about information disclosure

Refactoring English

• Hosted writing workshop for early readers
• Improved metadata on HN Popularity tool

Gleam Chat Log Parser

A toy project to teach myself Gleam. I’m trying to write parsers for my old AIM chat logs.

• Parse the sender using a regular expression
• Use the Gleam Option type to filter non-message lines
• Replaced Option with Result when someone on Discord told me that was more idiomatic
• Switched from simple line-by-line parsing to instead lex the input into tokens and then parse the tokens
  • I’ve never done a real lexer/parser, so this is potentially wrong
• Added basic parsing of timestamp string

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.

• Fixed a bug where PicoShare was failing to delete expired entries
  • It turned out that when I added foreign key constraints, I didn’t test what happened when an entry had downloads