Update for the week ending on Friday, Feb 27, 2026

mtlynch.io

• Worked on “Why Improve Your Writing?” chapter
• Worked on “Write for Your Audience” chapter

Grosiree

• Added a “Clear Cart” button to remove all in-cart items
  • I realized they otherwise just accrue forever
• Moved from GitHub to Codeberg

LLM sandbox

• Configured containers to share access to a ~/.claude.json file so I don’t have to re-authenticate to Claude on every sandbox startup
  • This turned out to be a mistake, as multiple workers frequently corrupt the JSON file and mess up Claude

Exploding Servers

Exploding Servers is a side project I’m not sure I’ll ever release, but I use it as a personal tool for launching VMs with a strict expiration time.

• Updated Scaleway dependencies to the latest versions
• Added an AGENTS.md file
• Added support for 32 CPU Scaleway servers
• Migrated CI validation to Nix checks and removed CircleCI config

NixOS config

• Started using nixbuild.net for large Nix builds and already consumed 1000+ CPU hours
  • It turned out to be exactly what I wanted. I was trying to figure out a way to avoid constant rebuilds of a large Nix project that takes 20+ minutes to compile using all 32 CPU cores on my dev machine
  • Using nixbuild.net means my system never locks up on builds and doesn’t get wacky if two builds try to happen at the same time.
• Pulled my Oracle cloud VM into my main NixOS config
  • I originally couldn’t figure out how to run them as a single repo, and it was too hard to wire it in, but now AI makes it pretty easy, so I consolidated to a single repo.
• Pulled htop into my common packages for all hosts

Misc

• Verified my identity to turn on SEPA payments for Stripe
• Opted-out of Stripe using biometric data for other purposes
  • They make this annoyingly hard