Update for the week ending on Friday, Nov 27, 2020

TinyPilot

Launched a Black Friday deal
Got cross-domain working for Google Analytics
- I think? It seems to sort of work. Previously it was losing track of visitors as they moved between my site and the shopify checkout and back again.
Updated my dump-logs script to include config files
Helped users with support questions.

I’m preparing a paid video course about how to write blog posts that resonate with Hacker News.

Gave my first trial run of part 1 of the course.
- Reviewed participant surveys.
Rewrote my sales copy based on feedback from the Blogging for Devs community
Continued editing my slides.

Fixed a bug in my TinyPilot post that affected mobile readers.
Continued working on my code review article
Backported my revenue graphs to all my old monthly retrospective posts
- I made sure that they’re “frozen” in time so that they reflect only the data available at the time I published the post.

Finalized winter preparation
One of my hives died, unfortunately.
- I suspect I waited too long to treat for mites.

Switched to-do list managers
- I’ve used Nirvana for three years, but I always felt like I was trying to fit a square peg in a round hole because I don’t follow the GtD philosophy it was designed for.
- I switched to TickTick, which I’m really liking so far. Some key benefits:
  - You can view tasks on a per-day basis or a per-project basis, and you can create customized views based on things like tags.
  - In Nirvana, whenever you set a target date on a task, it treated that as the “Due Date” and made a big deal when the day arrived, when what I really wanted to say usually was, “Eh, I’ll do this next week.” TickTick supports this.
  - You can assign dependencies between tasks instead of just ordering them
  - It lets me write my descriptions in Markdown, whereas Nirvana was all plaintext
  - It’s actively developed, whereas Nirvana hadn’t changed in any noticeable way in the 3 years I’ve been using it.
Finally found a home networking setup that works:
- Router (Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4): I probably could have gotten away with an EdgeRouter3, but I figured for $70 more, why not?
  - I had to install dnsmasq on the ER4 to route by hostname, something that’s been giving me issues for months.
- Switch: TP-Link TL-SG1008P
- Wireless AP: Ruckus R310
Set up my new phone (had to upgrade from a Pixel 2 to a Pixel 4a because my Pixel 2 reached EOL)
Updated my pre-vue template to take advantage of new Nuxt functionality for static-site generation