Update for the week ending on Friday, Jul 26, 2019

Zestful

• Added USDA matching to the website demo
• Improved ingredient -> USDA matching
  • Coverage is now 72.69% (up from 61.25% last week)
• Sped up my process for adding new USDA matches
• Did two new releases based on improvements to the ML model
• Stripped more bad characters from user inputs
• Added better support for picking a single ingredient when the input string contains disjunctions
  • e.g., “red or orange bell peppers”
• Added/fixed 900 training examples
• Dropped ~200 incorrect training examples from my corpus

What Got Done

• Sent follow-up emails to four founders I reached out to previously
  • No response from three, one agreed to an in-person meeting
• Sent cold emails to four new founders
  • No response from three, conducted a Hangouts interview with the fourth
• Prepped for another previously-arranged customer interview, but the customer no-showed
• Sent a personalized email to a new user (no response)

Is It Keto

• Wrote an entry for blackberries because I was checking the logs and realized it’s one of the top-requested foods and none of the top Google search results quite match.
• $71.20 in revenue this week, a new record

mtlynch.io

• Continued writing my post about hiring freelance content writers

Home Video Digitization

Last year, I digitized about 40 hours of my family’s old home videos and put them on a private media server for my family. I’m in the process of cleaning up my tools so I can publish a guide about this.

• Continued developing Ansible scripts to reproduce what I did
• Cleaned up my Dockerfile

Dusty VCR

• Got 70% done editing episode #9

Beekeeping

• Ordered equipment for harvesting honey
• Cut ventilation notches in the hives’ inner covers

Misc

• Held a financial planning mini-workshop for my sister and a few of her friends
• Inspector approved my solar panels, so they’re now generating electricity for my house!