Update for the week ending on Friday, Dec 5, 2025
mtlynch.io
- Published My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging
- Ordered more MeshCore gear
- I decided I was done with it, but then I found the responses from MeshCore diehards too compelling to give up on the technology.
- Ordered more MeshCore gear
- Started November retrospective
Refactoring English
- Continued working on design docs chapter
ScreenJournal
ScreenJournal is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.
- Disabled directory listing in static serving directories
Little Moments
Little Moments is an open-source web app I’m working on to replace the current family photo sharing app (TinyBeans) I used (which I strongly dislike).
- Started writing the design doc
- I started with a script to export all of my data from TinyBeans. It works pretty well so far and has no third-party dependencies.
- Implemented all the exports I can think of:
- Exports all photo/video metadata (including comments/reactions)
- Exports all users who receive updates about albums
- Downloads media files at original resolution
- Implemented all the exports I can think of:
pointer-brother
Pointer Brother is a utility app I use for quick screenshot and image manipulation.
- Added support for cropping an image to social sharing proportions feature
resticpy
- Added clearer instructions to help third-party contributors fix formatting issues in their PRs
- Rename
fix-styleandcheck-stylescripts to be markdown-specific - Added a config file to make using
isorteasier execution - Simplified the docs for
cat lock - Updated docs to use consistent dummy names for username and hostname
Misc
- Added retries to my nightly git backup script
- It was failing the whole script on one failed connection to Github or Codeberg per run
- Tried to get Evolution mail client to read a maildir directory, and I still can’t get it to work
- Contributed a small CSS fix to the nobloat.org blog