Update for the week ending on Friday, Jun 26, 2026

Refactoring English

• Published How to Write an Effective Software Design Document excerpt
• Added consistent chapter summaries to all the chapters
• Updated metadata for HN popularity contest
• Restructured some chapters
• Added some countries that were missing purchasing power partity pricing on sales website
• Converted callout boxes to Asciidoc admonitions (e.g., “tip”, “caution”)
• Fixed EPUB compatibility issues
• Fixed the borders on images in the HTML version of the book
• Added ✔/✘ markers to the good/bad example headers
• Centered the circles in my venn diagram

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 photo uploads
  • Started with a non-functional upload button that would show/not show depending on owner permissions
• Added support for animated GIF uploads
• Added milestone status to README.md
• Added auto-deployment to Fly.io with a Nix-built image
  • And then fixed it and again
• Tweaked WebM encoding for served videos

ScreenJournal

ScreenJournal is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.

• Rewrote e2e tests to work offline in a Nix build sandbox
  • I replaced go-tmdb library with direct TMDB API calls using net/http to make it easier to mock out the TMDB calls that were otherwise getting in the way of offline tests
• Worked on support for draft mode
• Downgraded pnpm to 10.25.0
  • v11.x made e2e tests harder for some reason, and I didn’t need anything from it
• Fixed Go tool settings in Nix shell
  • And again
• Updated flyctl in flake.nix
• Updated fly.toml for latest schema

Misc

• Co-hosted Indie Founders Western Mass meetup