Update for the week ending on Friday, Nov 12, 2021

TinyPilot

Started cutting a release candidate for 2.3.1
Reviewed a PR to cross-compile TinyPilot images on x64 machines using Packer
Reviewed a PR to backport an HID module fix to Raspbian that improves compatibility with certain BIOSes, including Apple hardware
Reviewed a PR to add Debian 11 compatibility to ansible-role-ustreamer
Reviewed a PR to add Debian 11 compatibility to ansible-role-tinypilot
Contributed a doc fix to uStreamer

Adjusted TinyPilot’s office setup so that we don’t have to run a full-blown HP rack server 24/7
- The rack server was serving a few functions that needed to run 24/7, but I moved those services to a dedicated Pi server
- Updated test machines to point to the new server
Got a refund on 150 power supplies I bought for the Voyager 2 but realized they were over-voltage.
- Negotiated a bulk rate with a different vendor. This time I tested the voltage on one before spending $1k.

Migrated media.whatgotdone.com to BunnyCDN
- The data is just on a GCS bucket, and the GCP-native way to serve that is with an HTTP Load Balancer
- I realized recently that when I made that change, the site’s monthly costs went from ~$0.30/mo to $30/mo.
- BunnyCDN is a much simpler and cheaper way of achieving the same thing.
Started experimenting with a migration from Google Cloud Firestore to SQLite + Litestream
- It’s seeming pretty feasible, so I’m probably going to do it to make the site more platform-independent and easy to self-host.

Made the same migration as What Got Done in moving media.wanderjest.com to BunnyCDN

Migrated the site from Firebase Hosting to Netlify
- Netlify has much better prices for bandwidth, and the dev experience is better.
- I also moved Refactoring English and Hit the Front Page of Hacker News, and I’m probably going to move my blog and TinyPilot’s website in the next few weeks.