Update for the week ending on Friday, Jul 3, 2020

KVM Pi

Sold my first pre-order!
Added a 15% pre-order discount to see if that helps bring in any additional sales.
Adjusted the website design
Struggled to figure out why JavaScript was crashing on my build, blocking orders.
- It turns out that Nuxt can kill the JS runtime if you have HTML validation errors, and because Stripe checkout requires JavaScript, nothing was happening when users clicked the “pre-order” button.
Fixed a bug where the app would hang when the USB cable was disconnected
Added simple install instructions

Wrote my June retrospective
Updated my index pages so they highlight more of the content
- Blog posts index
- Book reports index

Moved the landing page for Is It Keto’s sister site to its own domain
Edited and published my first “keto story” based on an interview with a woman who lost 82 lbs on keto
Added five additional foods
Brought back AdSense ads since I had nothing new to learn from my existing landing pages.
Sent out 4th of July promotional emails to my mailing list (at 91 subscribers in just one month)
Sent a new discount offer to my mailing list for a new affiliate partner.

I’ve only had one trial user and zero sales in the 2-3 months it’s been up, so I just scrapped payments/user accounts and made it a free tool.
My plan is to keep adding functionality to it that benefits my personal use case, and maybe I’ll attract more users, and maybe I can add some sort of paid features if it becomes popular.
Added support for CSV import, but realized I first have to implement multi-account portfolios.
Started implementing multi-account portfolios.

In an effort to help Gridsome improve dev velocity, I’ve been volunteering a few hours a week to help manage their documentation.

Added a CI step to lint the markdown
- The documentation is all markdown, but without a linter, there was a lot of inconsistency in style.
- It’s super satisfying to use the linter to fix markdown and then check in a PR that both brings consistency on the current codebase and guarantees consistency on future PRs.
Submitted 4 PRs to fix markdown style
Reviewed or closed 9 other PRs from other contributors

Partial inspections of both hives.
- Still can’t locate the queen in the problem hive, but she seems to be healthy and laying brood.