Update for the week ending on Friday, Feb 13, 2026

mtlynch.io

• Published Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data
• Published my January retrospective
• Participated in the Hacker News comment thread of my year 8 retrospective
• Refactored how I generate the graphs and tables in my monthly retrospectives
  • Added thousands separators - I finally had enough revenue to notice!
  • Create a “table change cell” to eliminate a bunch of repeated conditional logic
  • Added more line breaks to the shortcode for readability
  • Split the Hugo shortcode into two separate shortcodes
  • Fixed a regression I made at some point in refactoring

Refactoring English

• Worked on chapter “Improve Your Grammar Incrementally”

NixOS config

• Added a Grafana dashboard for my LLM usage.
• Added nix optimise to cleanup script
• Created a bubble-wrap config for VLC
  • I recently noticed it has a scary amount of attack surface.
• Switch to managing Ghostty’s config from home manager
• Switched from light-locker to xsecurelock from light-locker
  • I have issues waking from resume and I don’t know if xsecurelock is any better

Grosiree

• Got it to be good enough to use for this week’s groceries

Misc

• Had two calls with old teammates
• Gabe a public comment at Eversource’s public hearing on its EV rollout plan