Update for the week ending on Friday, Dec 26, 2025

Mostly on vacation due to the holidays

Refactoring English

HN Popularity Contest

Added a feature that lets you filter front-page stories for a domain by date
Did some LLM-driven refactoring

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).

Worked on the design doc

ScreenJournal

ScreenJournal is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.

Deleted an unused environment variable
Upgraded to go 1.25

Zestful

Fixed an outage
- My fly.io VM was mysteriously down for several weeks but I never got an email about it
- There are so few active customers that it took my main customer almost a month to notice, and then I fixed it within a few hours.
Fixed up my fly deploy script, as the fly CLI made a breaking change since I last deployed a year ago

PicoShare is a minimalist web-based file sharing tool I’m working on. I’m often frustrated that I can’t just send someone a link directly to a file because every file-sharing service tries to re-encode images/video or wrap their own viewer around other files, so I’m making a simple self-hostable tool that lets you upload files and share them with other people.

Fix fly deploy
- Recent changes to the command-line tool broke my deploy flow

Misc

Tweaked my Awesome WM settings
- Added two more desktops bound to the 0 and - keys
- Rearranged my desktops so that all my named desktops are first and the ad-hoc project desktops are last (and numbered)
Set up my SDR tuner (RTL-SDR Blog v3)
- Tried a few different SDR apps and had the best experience with gqrx
- I like that it lets me visualize the peaks easily
- Well, “easily”… I find all of the SDR tuner apps super confusing, as they are very tailored to people familiar with broadcasting or spectrogram software.