Update for the week ending on Friday, May 29, 2026
Refactoring English
- Added section on explanation debt
- Added section on long-distance pronouns
- Worked on subject-first sentences section
- Worked on “Respect the reader’s bandwidth” chapter
- Worked with illustrator on reader bandwidth illustration
- Fixed HTML output in excerpts
Feedback app
- Completed the basic upload functionality
- Worked on letting users offer reaction emoji / notes
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 gci for consistent go imports
- Tweaked the navbar links
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.
- Made a bunch of changes to deal with Scaleway changing their API so that VMs report volume in a different way.
- Planning to switch away from Scalway as my main backend, as they have these kind of breaks a lot, and they have only per-hour granularity.
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.
- Fixed fiddly breaks with the version since switching to git-based Go versioning
- It turns out that to make version tagging work right in Go, you need to use version tags with a
vprefix likev1.2.3, whereas I was just doing1.2.3. - Fixed the version display on the `/information page
- Modified the UI to strip the v prefix from the build version string
- Fixed the regex in CI to match new version style
- It turns out that to make version tagging work right in Go, you need to use version tags with a
NixOS Config
- Fiddled with vibevoice more
Misc
- Submitted two minor fixes to Henhouse, a new collectively-owned platform for static hosting