Update for the week ending on Friday, Oct 31, 2025

mtlynch.io

• Continued working on “First impressions of MeshCore”

Refactoring English

• Finished “How to Get Meaningful Feedback on Your Design Document”
  • Should be ready to send out next week

jellyrock

Jellyrock is a fork of Jellyfin that I was initially excited about using but then I discovered that the maintainer and I don’t see eye to eye on software.

• Argued with the maintainer about why it’s a bad idea to delete five years of source history

resticpy

• Reviewed a PR to add a group-by option to the backup command
• Added restic to the project Nix flake
• Updated group_by to be a proper list rather than a string-encoded list
• Modified the release workflow to automatically detect the package version automatically
• Cut the 1.3.0 release

Misc

• Started playing Oxygen Not Included
  • It’s been on my mind for almost a year since I saw Andrew Kelly and Mitchell Hashimoto talking about it
  • It’s pretty fun!
  • The biggest problem is that it’s pretty difficult to learn, as it’s not obvious how to use most of the objects in the game.
  • I got bored at first because it felt really tedious, but then I watched a tutorial that explained the basics, and I had a lot of fun.
  • I find that I get into ruts where I’m too confused about what’s going on, and then I read some or experiment more and figure out how to move forward.
• Had a call with another indie founder