Update for the week ending on Friday, May 3, 2019

mtlynch.io

• Published “End-to-End Testing Web Apps: The Painless Way”
  • Good response, ~14,000 readers in first two days
  • Score of 73 on /r/programming
  • Prompted Cypress team to start publishing a new type of image
  • Answered a related question on StackOverflow

What Got Done App

• Added user login/registration
  • Shout out to UserKit for making it easy. Went from zero knowledge of UserKit to complete integration in ~3 hours total dev time.
• Applied a bootstrap theme (Superhero)
• Fixed the entry submission page to auto-populate the date for the user

New Project Research

• Visited a stone quarry
  • Owner wasn’t there, left a gift, will call back next week.
• Cold called another stone quarry
  • They seemed confused about how I want to work with them
• Sent cold emails to three copywriters
  • Two agreed to a discussion, other has not yet responded
• freeCodeCamp responded with a “no”

Zestful

• Received payment of $123.85 in revenue from API usage
• Reached out to two users who were using the legacy NYT ingredient-phrase-tagger repo
• Started migrating to Python3

Is It Keto

• After a month of doing nothing to the site, everything is up
  • Revenues are at $82 (2x from March)
  • Sessions are at 8,851 (74% increase from March)

Beekeeping

• Picked up my bees!
• Installed bees in their hives
• Fed them sugar syrup
• Released the queens from their cages
• Ordered extra gloves and additional hive boxes

Misc

• Resolved long, drawn out dispute with NYS over 2017 tax returns
• Completed bookkeeping for March with Bench