Update for the week ending on Friday, Jun 12, 2026

mtlynch.io

• Published my May 2026 retrospective
• Fixed some broken links
  • Including every twitter link, as Twitter now rejects link checking from CircleCI.

Refactoring English

• Improved the preface after re-reading it for the first time in a couple of months
• Cleaned up stray unused files that were being exported in the HTML build
• Gave editorial feedback to a reader

Feedback App

• Added support for capturing feedback
  • Massive 4 KLOC change
• Added support for replying to feedback
• Added an author feedback dashboard for summarizing feedback
  • Screenshot
• Use more HTTP verbs like PUT and DELETE instead of making everything a POST
• Added more strongly typed structs instead of relying on strings
• Split the design milestones into more granular chunks to mitigate the great blockade
• Integrated htmx
• Switched comment edit and deletes to return HTTP 204 instead of HTTP 200 and force a page reload for no reason
• Merged together the types for Page and Chapter into Chapter
• Renamed a bunch of functions / types for consistency and brevity
• Prevented SQL implementation details from bleeding into handlers
• Deleted commentItem struct
  • Refactored code to simplify, eliminating the need
• Modified the chapter discovery to better match the output format of the real book
  • No nested HTML files
  • No static assiets with .html extension

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).

• Partially implemented magic login authentication
  • We don’t actually send login emails yet, so it’s essentially just verifying you know a valid email, but it puts a lot of the plumbing in place to implement magic logins without getting into the complexity of actually sending emails.
• Added more ignore directories to .air.toml
  • We don’t need to rebuild the app on any of those source files changing
• Added an IPv4-based ratelimit to prevent email enumeration
• Enabled PRAGMA foreign_keys explicitly
  • I think our library does it implicitly, but might as well be sure
• Changed the UI semantics from “Sign in” to “Log in”
• Changed S3 config to be based on env vars instead of a config file
  • Everything else is env vars, so it’s confusing for S3 to use a config file.
  • Plus, I’m more familiar with all secrets just being env vars.
• Moved redirect path type to core types package
• Replaced duplicated test helpers
  • And again

aw-web-ng

• Got interested in recording time tracking locally without relying on a cloud service that sees all my computer behavior
• Activity Watch is pretty neat, but I found the web UI terrible
• I vibe coded a CLI to match my tastes, and it’s been interesting so far.
• I’m planning to extend it into a web UI, but I’m taking baby steps to figure out what data I want to see.

Misc

• Worked on hammering out dates for local founder meetups
  • We stopped meeting for 6+ months and it’s just because of the friction of getting meetings dates figured out

NixOS config

• Upgraded my laptop to NixOS 25.11