Update for the week ending on Friday, May 13, 2022

TinyPilot

Management

• Hired a marketing agency.
• Met with another indie hardware founder.
• Reached out to a different indie hardware founder through Hacker News.

Software development

• Cut the TinyPilot Pro 2.4.1 release
• Reviewed improvements to the TinyPilot landing page
  • Before
  • After
• Continued working on TinyPilot about dialog
• Reviewed TinyPilot Debian package build for Janus WebRTC server

Sales

• Paid affiliates for March sales.

mtlynch.io

• Published my April retrospective.
• Started editing homelab NAS video.

PicoShare

PicoShare is a minimalist web-based file sharing tool I’m working on. I’m often frustrated that I can’t just send someone a link directly to a file because every file-sharing service tries to re-encode images/video or wrap their own viewer around other files, so I’m making a simple self-hostable tool that lets you upload files and share them with other people.

• Continued working on letting users choose arbitrary expiration dates for files
  • Currently they’re limited to a dropdown of three options, and they can’t change the expiration time.
• Fought more with CSP
  • I always think it’s going to be easy to implement CSP to make the site extra secure, and then I always end up regretting it.
  • Part of the problem is that Cypress.io strips the Content-Security-Policy header during e2e testing, so my tests don’t catch it when CSP breaks functionality on my site.
  • Fixed CSP on upload page
  • Change CSP nonce to be a 128-bit base64 value
    • It’s unclear from docs if it strictly has to be a base64 string, but I figured I might as well
  • Allow unsafe-inline in style tags, as Firefox seems to ignore the nonce when it’s part of an HTML custom element
• Refactored parsing logic for expiration dates
• Added a formatting workaround for a bug I hit in prettier-plugin-go-template
• Send cache headers for static resoureces
• Fixed invalid HTML in some templates
• Created a convenience script for adding new pages
• Fixed a bug that caused pasting text to include HTML tags on Firefox

WanderJest

I’m picking WanderJest back up again because I’ve learned a lot of techniques from PicoShare that I can use to improve it. The first thing I want to do is migrate from Firestore to SQLite because I’m so much more productive with SQLite.

• Added a mechanism for exporting full production data to JSON.
• Started writing SQLite scripts to import data from JSON into SQLite tables.
• Fixed e2e tests that had gone out of date because they used events that took place in 2021.
• Refactored social-go unit tests for facebook, instagram, and twitter
  • I restyled them to match the format I learned from litestream.

rss-proxy

rss-proxy is a Google Cloud Function that I use to proxy RSS feeds. All of the podcast feeds try to tie you to their platform by giving you an RSS feed under their doman, so rss-proxy lets you run the feed under your own domain and proxy the request to your actual podcast RSS feed, giving you platform mobility.

• Simplified environment variables
• Upgraded to go 1.16
• Added better logging

Misc

• Returned from vacation to Greenville, SC
  • I recommend it!
  • Very walkable, lots of nature nearby.
• Deleted all of my old emails from Gmail
  • I migrated to Fastmail a year or two ago, and I’ve backed up all my emails, but I’ve been afraid to delete the Gmail copy.
  • I finally started reaching my storage limit, so I just deleted everything from Gmail. Hope I’m correct in backing everything up!