Update for the week ending on Friday, May 31, 2019

What Got Done App

• Learned how to use Vuex as a client-side data store
  • This allowed me to track login state, so now there’s an “Edit” button for published posts
• Added Cypress end-to-end tests to make sure users can login, post, logout
  • One of the tests already prevented me from breaking the site in production. Hooray!
  • Still loving Cypress. I’m using this template for testing web apps
• Switched to a cleaner login implementation that doesn’t generate a million HTTP requests
• Submitted What Got Done to /r/sideproject

mtlynch.io

• Published my Is It Keto postmortem: “How to Grow Quickly and Never Turn a Profit”

New project research

• Had two customer interview calls with copywriters
• Made sketches of an email campaign authoring tool
• Reached out to three more copywriters seeking interviews

Is It Keto

• I noticed while writing the postmortem that Google is appending the alt text from the site logo to the some of the site titles
  • I changed the alt text to “Logo” so hopefully Google’s ML magic realizes it shouldn’t append that
• First month of profitability!
  • Revenue: $102.86
  • Costs: $0
  • Lesson: Leave it alone

Zestful

• Reached out to Kulsoom after seeing her experimentation with recipe cuisine classification

Dusty VCR

• Published episode #6: Kindergarten Cop w/ Kathy Lynch

Misc

• 95% migrated from Bench to Xero
  • I love Bench and hate Xero, but I couldn’t justify paying $140/month for a bookkeeping service when my books are so simple
• Upgraded my Sia Docker image to Debian Stretch and used multi-stage builds to reduce image size by 38%
• Got rid of 11 old comic books