Update for the week ending on Friday, Apr 17, 2026

Refactoring English

• Published new chapter, “Meet the Reader Where They Are”
• Held a live session, “Using AI to Improve Writing”
  • Biggest turnout so far, with 16 attendees
• Published version 0.9.0 draft of the book
• Updated the website to reflect the overhauled table of contents
• Added logic to strip cross links from the HTML version of chapter excerpts
  • They didn’t work because the excerpts are standalone chapters separate from the rest of the chapters
  • The PDFs excerpts still have broken links because a better fix is too complicated
• Re-did my publish draft script
  • It uploaded to my CDN by default, which is the opposite behavior of my publish excerpt script
  • I deliberately chose that at the time as it’s more common for me to create a local copy of an excerpt before uploading, but the inconsistency was too confusing.

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).

• Added support for uploading imported media to S3-compatible bucket
  • Refactored code in preparation of s3 support
  • Added an –s3 option to dev-scripts/serve
• Added a feature to prefetch images before the user scrolls to them
• Added a shared pageData that’s included in template data for all pages
  • For now it’s just CSP nonce, but after I implement auth, it will contain auth state
  • So I can test in either local media file mode or upload-to-s3 mode
• Ensure we always create parent directories for SQLite database files
• Updated the /about page to show git revision and build time
  • Tip I got from Michael Stapelberg’s latest post
• Grouped route middleware with subrouters
• Refactored SQLite methods to accept proper littlemoments structs instead of a long list of args that matched the structs
  • Refactored InsertComment to accept littlemoments.Comment
  • Refactored InsertReaction to accept littlemoments.Reaction
  • Refactored InsertUser to accept littlemoments.User
• Collapsed IsOwner to IsAdmin
  • They originally referred to two different things, but I think it’s simpler to start with one and add the other if there’s an actual need
• Added a gofmt rule to AGENTS.md

PicoShare

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.

• Moved forward a little bit on the switch from mattn/sqlite to ncruces/sqlite
  • It’s a big change that I’ve been touching off and on for about two years now
• Renamed clientRequiresJson to clientAcceptsJson

Bug bounties

• Sent a vendor a bug bounty report
• Heard back from another vendor that my report was a dupe
  • I suspect that they’re either lying or sitting on bugs for too long, so I’m not planning to report the rest of my findings to them

Misc

• Did monthly bookkeeping
• Created an iPhone Backup to HTML converter for SMS
  • This is basically a vibe-coded reimplementation of an app I built 15 years ago, except scoped to my narrow use case
  • I used to run AllYourTexts whenever I wanted to refer to something from an old iPhone text message backup, but it was Windows-only, and it was easier for me to just port the code to Go and convert to HTML.