Weekly Summary - 23/52

Published June 7, 2025

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Tags: weekly summary

Accomplishments

Reverse Engineering UDisc API

• Published Part 3 of blog series on Course and CourseDetails structure.
• Drafted outline for Part 4, focused on smartLayouts and hole info.
• Renamed resolveSchemaMap to a clearer, more specific function name.
• Improved nested hydration using deepHydrate for decoding nested data.
• Considered naming conventions like courseWithDetails for client API.
• Decided to provide a client library first, rather than a full backend.

TypeScript Module and Publishing

• Adopted YYYYMMDD format for versioning with semantic meaning.
• Resolved JSON parsing and bundling issues in the TypeScript setup.
• Held off on publishing to npm, but prepared module for later release.

Static Site and Blogging

• Fixed insecure site warning by enabling HTTPS on GitHub Pages.
• Designed favicons and tried different accent colors and sizes.
• Planned a meta-post to tie the blog series together conceptually.

NixOS Daily Driver Series

• Published Part 3 of your NixOS daily driver blog series.
• Started exploring ideas for better display managers like Lemurs.

Gitea Self-Hosting

• Setup Gitea as Linux service.
• Resolved SSH cloning issues by switching to internal SSH service.
• Researched CI/CD via Woodpecker

Swedish Language Learning

• Reached 179-day streak learning Swedish using Babbel.

To-Do / Next Steps

UDisc Blog Series

• Write and publish Part 4 about smartLayouts, holes, and tees.
• Create a meta-post summarizing the series with internal references.
• Explore building a schema or data visualizer for reader clarity.

open-udisc-api Module

• Prepare for npm publishing (README, exports, format cleanup).
• Write more Vitest-based tests using mock data to avoid real API calls.
• Add inline documentation and usage examples to client methods.

NixOS Configuration

• Start Lemurs setup for display management.
• Write Part 4 of the daily driver series covering service setup.
• Explore modularizing environment.systemPackages further.

Gitea Enhancements

• Consider automating deployment with Git hooks or CI.

Additional Ideas

• Write a short post explaining UDisc .data format independently.
• Research legality of wrapper libraries for non-public data APIs.
• Consider writing a proxy or wrapper API as a hosted endpoint.