Update for the week ending on Friday, Jul 11, 2025

mtlynch.io

• Wrote my June 2025 retrospective
• Updated homepage bio to include my book
  • A reader told me they have trouble finding the link to my book through my website, and I realized it is actually hard to find.
• Updated Refactoring English ad
  • I forgot to change the links to point to the book website rather than Kickstarter.
  • I also touched up the ad copy slightly.
• Switched some instances of hugo.IsProduction to hugo.IsServer
  • IsProduction seems more logically appropriate in most places.
• Linked “Lessons from my First Exit” from “I Sold TinyPilot” post

Refactoring English

• Continued working on sample chapter about emails
• Integrated the sample chapter on release announcements into the ebook
  • Improved the wording a bit on the import and backported the changes to the web version.
• Fixed a CSS bug that was adding excessive whitespace to the top of articles
  • Before
  • After
• Tweaked CSS on mobile to reduce whitespace around headings
• Updated markdownlint to 0.18.1

What Got Done

• Announced shutdown of What Got Done
• Added a feature to let users export their posts in Markdown format
• Added support to include externally referenced images in Markdown exports
  • But then I realized it was pretty resource-intensive and error-prone, so I reverted the image part and rely instead on importers to handle that.
• Added a feature that lets users to set up a forwarding address for post-WhatGotDone shutdown
  • Example (profile)
    • Original: whatgotdone.com/michael
    • Redirects to: weeks.mtlynch.io
  • Example (weekly update)
    • Original: whatgotdone.com/michael/2025-07-04
    • Redirects to: weeks.mtlynch.io/2025-07-04
• Moved the data export feature to its own page

Michael’s Weekly Updates

I’ve replaced What Got Done with a much simpler static site called Michael’s Weekly Updates, which is just a Hugo site with mostly the same functionality as What Got Done.

• Ported all my old data from What Got Done.
• Added a 404 page
• Added a script to pre-fill my week’s PRs
• Disabled Plausible analytics on draft builds
• Revised old posts to refer to CircleCI consistently
• Changed all the WhatGotDone links on mtlynch.io to weeks.mtlynch.io
• Got rid of some large duplicate files that were bloating the repo.
• Added a 404 page
• Added Plausible metrics
  • Tweaked config to compile Plausible out of draft builds
• Added security rules to .clinerules
  • Cline seems to casually ignore them and read sensitive files anyway.

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• Fixed a Nix build failure that stemmed from a break in the ZLS Nix flake

Misc

• Did monthly bookkeeping.
• Catchup call with another indie founder.
• Listed my unmanaged PoE switch for sale.
• Cleaned filter on my hot water boiler.