Update for the week ending on Friday, Oct 9, 2020

TinyPilot

Conducted a customer interview.
Fixed a bug in my Shopify settings, where some international customers were seeing shipping rates of ~$120 when they should have been ~$35.
- Plus, I added more shipping options, so now economy international shipping is available.
Ran my first reddit ads.
- They’re not doing so well.
- First one: 1,126 impressions, 17 clicks, 0 conversions, $2.72 average CPC
- Another variant: Hasn’t run yet
- And another: Hasn’t run yet
Found a tech blogger interested in reviewing TinyPilot.
Updated frontend so that it persists user settings to local storage.
Learned to use ES6 modules in vanilla JavaScript.
Wrote instructions for adding support for new keyboard layouts.
Contributed two PRs to vdesktop, a tool I use to build redistributable Raspberry Pi .img files.
Cut a new TinyPilot release, v1.1.2.
Reviewed two PRs to improve experience on mobile.
Added more diagnostic logging to the log dumper script.
Submitted TinyPilot to Awesome Self Hosted.

Published a new blog post about my 2020 homelab VM server build.
- It did well on /r/homelab.
- In browsing for other homelab blogs, I found another sub that I’d never seen before, /r/homeserver, where my post received an even better response.
Published my September 2020 retrospective.
Worked with my illustrator on illustrations for my next post.
Continued writing my post about code reviews.

Reviewed @rex’s PR to fix a long-standing bug with checklists in weekly updates.
- Thanks, rex!
Chipped away at my months-long effort to add a WYSIWYG editor.
- Discovered that the testability issues I thought went away are actually still present.
- Cypress seems to have a hard time clicking a textarea and moving the cursor to the end of the text, no matter what I tell it to do.
Moved dev environment variables to their own file.
Updated npm packages.
Added recommended VS Code extensions.
Deleted a duplicate integration test.