Update for the week ending on Friday, Sep 9, 2022

TinyPilot

Management

• Continued following up with backlog of Support Engineer applicants
  • If they were no hires, I eliminated them (with an explanation if they made a good-faith effort in the application rather than just copy/paste)
  • If they were strong candidates, I let them know that I hired someone but I’d like to stay in touch in case something opens up in the future
• Three 1:1s with staff

Software development

• Reviewed a PR to use version information to decide on updates
• Reviewed a PR to add structured data to TinyPilot blog posts
• Reviewed a PR to fix a build break in the TinyPilot Pro ansible role
• Reviewed PR to refactor one of our CI steps into a standalone bash script
• Migrated away from deprecated CircleCI Docker images

Customer support

• Reviewed new FAQ article about performing TinyPilot updates through an HTTP proxy

Sales

• Reached out to a large company who’s been purchasing many TinyPilots

Misc

• Emailed a blogger I like who recently mentioned TinyPilot

mtlynch.io

• Worked on my August retrospective

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.

• I got an entertaining response from a spammer who’s been going back and forth with Stan for 26 emails and is tired of Stan constantly derailing the conversation:
  • Response

Dusty VCR

• Continued editing Back to the Future episode

Misc

• Bothered my latest accountant about completing my 2021 taxes
  • This is accountant #3 after the first two
  • This one had a 2.5 week turnaround on the first draft, so he’s ahead of the rest, hopefully it works out
• Voted in MA state primaries