Update for the week ending on Friday, Sep 20, 2019

What Got Done

Announced open source release of What Got Done
- After “quiet” release last week
- Documented a straightforward bug and tried to make it easy for external contributors to fix it
Made <title> tags more descriptive on What Got Done entry pages (#289)
- Example
- This is a little wacky as I have to populate the <title> tag redundantly on the server side (so that things like search and social sharing get the right title without JS) and on the client side (so that the title updates as you change pages)
  - Is there a better way of doing this? It feels wrong.
- The first test of this will be when I share this post today on Twitter.
  - Update: didn’t work
Added an architecture overview diagram to README (#288)
Talked to dtq and truthmast (the UserKit team) about making it easier for third-party contributors to work on What Got Done while minimizing UserKit-specific installation/sign-up.
Made it so that developers can run the Go unit tests even if they haven’t built the frontend (#295)
Moved the tests for /api/recentEntries to their proper home (#290)
Cleaned up some dead code from when I had a mailing list (#294)

Edited and published one of my trial writers’ first article
- Zucchini
Gave feedback on another trial writer’s drafts, but had to end the trial in a no-hire
- After two drafts, they were too distant from the site’s writing style.
Requested a sample box from a keto meal kit company for review.
- It’s fun that the site is big enough that companies will send me free stuff!
- Wrote skeleton page for the review and added it to the navbar
Processed writing applications from 4 new candidates
Finalized a meeting with a potential meal plan partner
Sent paychecks to writers
Applied for three new affiliate partnerships

Reached out to an expert on freelance writing, and she agreed to review my guide to hiring freelance content writers
- Updated the guide based on her feedback
Continued working on the freelance hiring guide
- Added some content
- More editing
- Added most of the screenshots/graphics
Wrote spec for the cover image
- Reviewed first draft with @Lolo_ology

Bought a used chest freezer for storing frames over winter
Installed escape boards in anticipation of this weekend’s honey harvest
- This is the less confrontational way of getting bees off the honey frames so we can harvest them
- The more confrontational way is just whacking the frames against the top of the hive so that all the bees fall off
- My bees have been more aggressive lately, so I’m trying to avoid their ire