Update for the week ending on Friday, Sep 2, 2022

TinyPilot

Management

• Team lunch with local staff
• 1:1 with new support engineer
• Sync meeting with EE partner
• Hiring
  • Following up with all the candidates I haven’t responded to yet to let them know they’re either not a match or that they were a match and I got too many applications to evaluate everyone
  • I closed hiring a week ago, but I’m still following up with everyone
• Adjusted my business liability insurance to comply with Amazon’s new requirements
  • I need to have $1M in coverage per incident and name Amazon as an additional insured
• Wrote internal documentation establishing which holidays TinyPilot observes

Software development

• Weighed in on design decisions for update overhaul
• Added a privacy policy to the TinyPilot web app’s about page
• Adjusted responsive behavior for the remote screen to leave less unused space
• Reviewed changes to add JSON+LD data to TinyPilot landing page
• Removed incorrect accessibility attributes from alert boxes on the TinyPilot website
  • I’d been adding role="alert" to callout boxes that are permanently on the page, but that’s apparently not the correct because screen readers treat that as content the reader should see immediately

Customer support

• Reviewed a new FAQ article: Can anyone detect when I’m using TinyPilot?
• Wrote a style guide for content on the TinyPilot website
• Wrote internal documentation for conventions for taking screenshots
• Wrote internal documentation for handling feature requests
• Wrote internal documentation on how TinyPilot support engineers balance their various responsibilities

Sales

• Increased Voyager 2 price by $10
  • We’re selling slightly too fast to meet demand at our current rates.

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.

• Continue migrating to database-backed dynamic responses instead of having everything hardcoded into the binary
• Improve threading emails that have incorrect headers
• Improve name detection
• Add more guest post responses

mtlynch.io

• Started August retrospective

Misc

• Tried out a new Instant Pot for the first time
  • Makes hard boiled eggs really well, super easy to peel
• Made white bean stew
• Sous vided a steak
  • I need more practice with this, as it doesn’t work quite the same way as my other sous vide
• Gave away old laptop on Buy Nothing
• Gave away cast iron skillet we never use anymore
• Gave away colanders we never use anymore
• Decided on shrubs for our yard