Update for the week ending on Friday, Oct 7, 2022
TinyPilot
Management
- Hired a second support engineer
- Led monthly dev meeting
- 1:1 with staff
- Dropped off equipment with manufacturer for prototype case
- Trialed Toggl as a new time tracking tool for the team
- It’s designed more for agencies/consultancies
- It’s very hard to find time tracking software that isn’t essentially bossware/spyware. As soon as the features brag about spying on which URLs your employees are viewing while on the clock, I’m out.
- Evaluated alternative vendors for fans
- Prepared inventory for my EU distributor’s upcoming vacation
Software development
- Published TinyPilot Pro 2.5.0
- Reviewed a fix to the install script that was preventing some users from updating to 2.5.0
- Reviewed a fix that adds better OS information to our debug logs
- Updated a library dependency for compatibility with Ubuntu 22
- Fixed caching for version index files on our CDN
Customer support
- Reviewed new support article about updating through an HTTP proxy
- Wrote internal playbook to answer customer questions about TinyPilot’s USB-A ports
- Wrote internal playbook to answer customer questions about port forwarding to enable Internet access
- Wrote internal playbook to explain TinyPilot’s status on migrating to Debian Bullseye
- Updated internal guidelines about offering loaner devices to make sure we collect data about compatibility when customers send them back
Sales
- Wrote blog post announcing 2.5.0 release
- Watched a tepid TinyPilot YouTube review
mtlynch.io
- Started September retrospective
- Started notes comparing Cypress to Playwright
WanderJest
- Worked on a dropdown list for picking performers to list on a show
- Refactored some unit tests
- Refactored some custom types to get rid of implicit conversions
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.
- Ported all of my end-to-end-tests from Cypress to Playwright
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.
- Fixed a bug in response matching
Dusty VCR
Misc
- Scheduled the next Western Mass Indie Founders meetup
- Gave feedback to another bootstrapped founder
- Got rid of a lot of unneeded items from my old memorabilia box
- Published a new release of resticpy