Update for the week ending on Friday, Oct 29, 2021

Short week this week

TinyPilot

Management

• 1:1 with developer
• Worked with EU distributor on figuring out workflow for royalties

Customer support

• Continued training staff to handle customer support.
• Added an FAQ article about resetting your password.
• Reorganized the FAQ page into categories
  • Before
  • After
• Proactively reached out to several recent customers for feedback
• Added more internal documentation about customer support.

Product research

• Met with EE vendor about starting work on Voyager 3

Sales

• Met with marketing firm about potentially working together

Deliberate Programming

• Published commentary on my recording of myself programming
• Fixed some of the bottlenecks I discovered in my What Got Done workflows

What Got Done

• Simplify the dev server launch to a single command
• Lazy-load the sitemap on the first request
  • Reduces log spew in unit tests
• Update to the latest go-sitemap-generator
• Fix the modd command so it doesn’t rely on the GOPATH environment variable
• Updated CSP to match Google’s new identity services requirements

WanderJest

• Updated CSP to match Google’s new identity services requirements

Misc

• Set up a new print server on a Raspberry Pi
  • For some reason, my Synology NAS (which used to share my printer to the network) has stopped processing print jobs correctly
• Started researching options for a DIY NAS server build
  • I like my Synology, but I realized that if it ever dies, I have to buy a totally new Synology