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.
• 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

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-style and check-style scripts to be markdown-specific
• Added a config file to make using isort easier 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