Update for the week ending on Friday, Aug 28, 2026

mtlynch.io

• Updated wordword release to codefloe

Refactoring English

Book

• Finished the section on blog titles
• Re-read a bunch of chapters
  • Just one left to re-read
• Re-word the garden path sentences explanation

Website

• Adjusted rules to fight scraper bots

Feedback app

• Added email notifications when a reader leaves a new comment
  • I’d previously started implementing support to everyone getting email notifications when there’s activity relevant to them, but it was too big and complicated (batching notifications so they don’t get spammed, adding preferences in the UI).
  • Adding the feature just for me is much simpler because I don’t care so much if I get spammed with a million emails if a lot of readers are commenting

wordword

• Migrated wordword from Codeberg to Codefloe.
  • Pretty easy migration.
  • The harder part was migrating CI since NixCI does not yet natively support Codefloe.
• I added CI with CrowCI using Nixbuild.net for the Nix builds
• NixCI added API support this week, so I switched from NixBuild.net to NixCI
• Switched to zigdown for Markdown parsing
  • I’ve tried this 2-3x with LLMs in the past and failed, but they’ve gotten good enough to do it correctly now.

nixci-client

• Mostly vibecoded a Go utility that acts as glue between non-NixCI CIs and NixCI so that I can use NixCI from any git forge, even if NixCI doesn’t support it natively.

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.

• Ported a bunch of improvements from go-app-starter
• Reviewed a third-party PR to strip metadata from uploaded images

go-app-starter

• Updated AGENTS.md to specify that table-driven tests should use keyed fields

Mail archiver

• Added more data integrity checks
• Added support for deleted attachments
• Added rendering of inline images