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

Comedy aggregator app

• Contacts I met through VVM convinced me to pursue an idea I’ve wanted to try for a while: a hub for live comedy.
  • I’m going to pilot it in my home region of Western Massachusetts and expand to other cities if it works
• Current pre-MVP state: [28fzAFJ.webp)
• Registered a domain name (and a backup one for when people hear me mispronounce it)
• Stripped down the What Got Done source to create a skeleton architecture
• Added in 20 local shows coming up in January
• Implemented aggregation by month
• Started a reverse performer search (see comedians and all the shows they’re performing in)
• Attended a stand up show at Iconica (this counts as work now!) and pitched the idea to two comedians

mtlynch.io

• Published “A Simple Pre-Rendered Web App Using Vue + Nuxt”
  • In my MailChimp newsletter, I accidentally linked to the wrong post (d’oh)
  • Added a little trail marker to try to redirect people
• Tried sharing the post and my Vue + Nuxt project template in a few places:
  • /r/vuejs
  • /r/nuxt
  • awesome-vue
  • vuecommunity
  • Vue.js forum
  • Vue.js feed
• Published a new book report:
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Updated my guide to hiring writers with a link to a new resource.
• Started the process of migration the blog from Jekyll to Hugo.

Is It Keto

• Reviewed and published four new articles:
  • Pork
  • Pepperoni
  • Salami
  • Ham
• Fixed the Admin UI to prevent me from double submitting entries when the server is slow to respond

Zestful

• Added functionality to my trainer Web UI to be able to throw out previously trained examples that I no longer want
  • For ingredients where the format is totally different from what my ML model recognizes, I used to label them anyway, but now I think it’s better to just omit them from the training data entirely
• Fixed a bug in ingredient pre-processing
• Responded to a new customer inquiry

What Got Done

• Added OpenGraph tags to post so that they render a little more nicely on Twitter
  • This was surprisingly hard!
  • What Got Done goes through two template renderers: the Vue frontend and the Golang backend
  • The Golang backend uses [[.Variable]] notation so as not to conflict with the Vue frontend’s {{ variable }} notation.
  • For values that need to be pre-rendered server side, they look like this after Vue builds them <meta property="og:title" content="[[.Title]">
  • The problem was that Webpack saw content="[[.Title]]" and stripped the quotes because they’re not necessary if there aren’t space characters.
  • But then when Golang rendered its variables, they’d look like <meta property=og:title content=michael's what Got Done entry> (unquoted)
  • So I had to tell Webpack to stop doing that, but reaching through Vue’s abstraction layer and tweaking Webpack settings is a huge pain: the fix.
    • The fix itself is simple, but figuring out the syntax to tweak the configuration correctly is hard.
• Switched to Node.js’ alpine Docker image to speed up my build a little bit (#384)
  • Tried the same thing with Go but it’s missing too many tools
  • I’d really love to figure out how to trim down my Cypress Docker image, which is currently 715 MB
• Upgraded all of my Node.js packages (#383)
  • I don’t have a clean way of doing this. I just did npm install --save [paste in all my dependencies] and npm install --save-dev [paste in all my devDependencies]
• Changed my Docker image to Golang 1.13 so that it matches the AppEngine 1.13 environment (#385)

Misc

• Co-hosted the December Indie Hackers Meetup with dtq
  • Good turnout, good cross-pollination with members of the VVM community

Home Maintenance

• Had my home mouseproofed

Dusty VCR Podcast

• Started editing episode #15