Update for the week ending on Friday, Jul 4, 2025

mtlynch.io

• Published “goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers”

Refactoring English

• Added a chapter to the ebook about choosing blog topics
• Wrote 1:1 feedback for one of the book’s premium backers
• Added a section to the release announcement chapter called “Turn your numbers into graphs”
• Worked on chapter about emails
• Renamed the “pre-order” page to “early access”
• Added a CI check to make sure headings in my examples are consistent

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.

• Added an option to show only downloads by unique IP
• Finish refactoring shared secret package
• Fixed typescript errors in e2e tests

Misc

• Updated Zig’s docs to point to a guide to hosting a Zig mirror on BunnyCDN
• Kept working on using Gleam to parse AIM logs
  • Moving closer to fully parsing timestamps
• Tried to get Niri working on my main NixOS workstation
  • Couldn’t figure out how to get it configured right
• Tried to get PaperWM to work
  • It worked for a second, and then it froze, and when I rebooted, I couldn’t enable the PaperWM extension anymore despite no errors