Update for the week ending on Friday, Jul 22, 2022

TinyPilot

Management

• Two 1:1s
• Team lunch with local staff
• Did monthly bookkeeping

Software development

• Implemented routes on the update server for checking the latest version number and downloading the latest version
• Added integration tests for the update server
• Fixed a bug on the website that a HN user discovered

mtlynch.io

• Published “I Regret My $46k Website Redesign”
  • This has become one of my all-time most popular posts
  • 105k unique visitors in the last two days
  • Hacker News #1 for the month
  • /r/web_design: #2 for the week
  • /r/programming: #14 for the week
  • Twitter: 135 retweets
  • Spent probably too much time engaging in comments
• Finished taking notes on Go Programming Blueprints by Mat Ryer

Talk to Stan

Talk to Stan is a tool I’m working on that will respond to templated emails I get from spammy marketers and recruiters with a sequence of templated responses to ask the spammers an endless series of dumb questions.

• Added a few more matchers and responses for backlink spam

Misc

• Continued working on my 2021 taxes
  • I’ve been waiting months for progress from my accountants on a relatively simple tax return
• Set up a new laptop for my fiance
  • She’d been dragging along an 8-year old Dell whose battery life had shrunk to 1 hour, and it took 5 minutes to boot
  • It’ll be an interesting experiment because she’s always used Windows, but she only ever uses Chrome, so I set her up with a Dell and Ubuntu, but we’ll migrate over her Windows license if she misses Windows