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
- 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
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-weekscript 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- HomeNetworkGuy has a good tutorial, but it’s now out of date because of OPNSense UI changes
- Wrote instructions for adding a VLAN on OPNsense
- 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