Update for the week ending on Friday, Sep 10, 2021

TinyPilot

Management

• Led sprint planning meeting
• 1:1 with local staff member
• Paid estimated taxes
• Fixed mistake in previous sales tax payments
• Defined bug labels we use in our projects

Software development

• Updated QA instructions based on results from initial QA runs
• Fiddled with CircleCI for a test that needs access to two repos
• Documented the Google Cloud Function we use for managing subscriptions to our mailing list (via the EmailOctopus API)

Customer support

• Started researching different “shared inbox” customer support solutions

Product research

• Checked in with EE vendor about Voyager 2

Sales

• Added some little tweaks to the TinyPilot website
  • Clicking the CTA (“Order Now”) takes you directly to the Voyager product page instead of the index of all products
  • Added a fourth review to the review carousel
  • Tweaked the layout of the review carousel
  • Re-styled the FAQ page: before vs. after
  • Make products in the shopping cart clickable
  • Fixed a UI bug that occurs when you empty the shopping cart
  • Removed underline when you hover over links
• Reached out to 5-6 designers and firms about redesigning the TinyPilot website
• Added a popup on the website for European users telling them about our European distributor
  • It seems like it’s working, as he got two new sales this week
• Paid affiliates

Refactoring English

• Finished up the conversion to Hugo
• Added a first draft of an author page
• Got rid of reCAPTCHA on mailing list signup

mtlynch.io

• Published August retrospective

WanderJest

• Refactored the edit performer form so that the end-user version and admin version share most of the same code
• Make images on performance and performer pages clickable
• Replaced a lot of custom CSS rules with built-in CSS classes that I only recently learned to use (e.g., mw-100, d-flex)
• Add more rigorous checking on performer POST
• Fix parser for venue names to allow numbers in the name (after my too-strict parser rejected a performance at the venue “10 Front”)

Zestful

• Checked in with potential acquirer
  • They’re still interested, we’ll resume discussions in a few weeks

Home maintenance

• Got a few siding panels replaced on my house

Misc

• My girlfriend, her mother, and I made our own lip balm our of beeswax we had from our beekeeping days
• Learned to use a Remarkable 2 tablet after a friend unexpectedly gifted me one
• Scheduled a date for peer mentorship group