Update for the week ending on Friday, Nov 7, 2025

mtlynch.io

• Add October 2025 retro
• Fixed broken links to Cypress.io links
• Fixed a broken link to the Massachusetts Innovation Program
• Continued working on “My First Impressions of MeshCore”

Refactoring English

• Published “How to Get Meaningful Feedback on Your Design Document”
• Worked on “Brevity” chapter
• Add a social discuss links to Lobsters on previous posts
  • Screenshot
• Update my time remaining script to assume 3.8 hours of writing per week rather than 5.0
• Expanded my time remaining scripts to print time remaining for each chapter

HN Popularity Contest

• Improved debug logging in generating the data
  • Added the hn-popularity-contest-data commit ID to the CI logs (so I know which version of data it was using)
• Deleted dead code
• Refactored code for reading exclusions
• Updated the metadata based on popular domains of 2025
  • Add more excludes
  • Exclude aikido.dev
  • Exclude guru3d.com
  • Update metadata for 2025-11-03

rss-archiver

rss-archiver is a quick app I wrote to let me archive all the episodes of one of my favorite podcasts that just ended. I really just did it to download this one podcast, but I’m wondering if I should expand it to keep archive copies of all my favorite podcasts and just refresh every night.

• I initially tried to use ArchiveBox, but it didn’t really work
  • It seemed to just be scraping URLs and then trying to download everything as a webpage
• Downloaded everything successfully.

Michael’s weekly updates

• Changed new-week script to fetch both PRs and commits for repos on Codeberg
  • I realized that I was forgetting work in those repos, as they’re mostly private, so I routinely skip PRs.

Streamablize

Streamablize is a mini utility I made for myself to make it easier to make web-streamable versions of videos.

• Add better logging for ffmpeg conversion

Misc

• Adopted convenience scripts from “Scripts I wrote that I use all the time.”
• Created a convenience script for asking questions to a local LLM
• Had a call with another founder
• Did monthly bookkeeping
• Continued discussing basic CI for the Jellyfin Roku app
• Created a private repo with instructions to myself for managing my home network
  • Wrote instructions for adding a VLAN on OPNsense
    • It’s so stupidly tedious and non-obvious
    • There are so many times you have to re-enter the same value to match somewhere else or jump to a totally new flow to continue the same process of creating a VLAN
    • HomeNetworkGuy has a good tutorial, but it’s now out of date because of OPNSense UI changes
• Fixed my AirGradient air quality sensors
  • They were losing WiFi about 50% of the time and losing a lot of data
  • I ended up creating a dedicated WiFi SSID (2.4 GHz only) and VLAN for them, and that fixed it
  • I suspect it’s because 2.4/5.0 GHz mixed SSIDs were messing things up.
• Started monthly donations to Bellingcat
  • They had good coverage of the
• Voted in my city’s local elections