Update for the week ending on Friday, Oct 17, 2025

mtlynch.io

• Published “Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0”
  • I didn’t realize that by the time I’d written it, Litestream had actually published 0.5.1, which fixed many of the issues I mentioned, though not all.
• Started writing notes about MeshCore

Refactoring English

• Presented a live session, “Practical Design Docs” to early access customers
• Started working on sample chapters to publish to the web about design docs
• Started working on chapter about brevity
• Reached out to three new readers

Litestream

• Tested Litestream 0.5.0 on What Got Done
  • Fixed a regression in Litestream so it creates parent directories for the SQLite database if they don’t exist
  • Fixed some Litestream docs to match the new config syntax for 0.5.0

Jellyfin Roku Client

• Contributed a fix to the BrighterScript linter to ignore unused parameters if they begin with leading underscore
• Tried to fix a BrighterScript false positive, but it got too messy

Misc

• Worked on switching from Gnome to Niri
  • I’ve wanted to try for a while, but I find it difficult to experiment with because whenever the config is wrong, I have to reboot the whole system
  • I ended up working out most of the kinks on a spare mini PC I could drive with my TinyPilot
  • After successfully testing it on the mini PC, I got it working on my NixOS laptop
  • I’d like to play around a little more before I deploy it on my main desktop
• Contributed a starter set of unit tests for to MeshCore
• Met with another indie blogger