Update for the week ending on Friday, Dec 23, 2022
TinyPilot
Management
- Continued coordinating a test run with a 3PL vendor
- Did capacity planning for next few months
- Continued coordinating the next TinyPilot case
- Started recurring monthly meeting with support engineers
- Three 1:1s with teammates
- Finished end-of-year tasks for Gusto
Software development
- Dropped support for git-based install in TinyPilot’s Ansible role
- This had stopped working a couple months ago anyway and was only in the role because it made automated testing easier
- Finished setting up Litestream on TinyPilot’s update server
- Got rid of deprecated calls to
ioutil.ReadAllon TinyPilot’s update server - Refactored an error message about invalid versions
- Reviewed a change to TinyPilot Community’s version schema
- Reviewed a check for incompatible hardware during TinyPilot install
- Removed the error-out logic when we detect 64-bit hardware
- Apparently, TinyPilot works on 64-bit Raspbian now
- Reviewed the new demo video for storage mounting on the homepage
- I discovered recently that webp also does animations and is more size-efficient than GIF
Sales
- Increased price of TinyPilot Voyager 2 PoE
- Reviewed new 3D renders of upcoming case
Misc
- Booked flights for an upcoming trip
- Purchased holiday gifts
ScreenJournal
ScreenJournal is a new project I just started. The idea is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.
- Worked on support for multiple users
- Continued iterating on changes I contributed to the jeff library
- Switched to bcrypt for password authentication
- Fixed sizes on sign in page
Misc
- Did monthly bookkeeping
- Merged in a PR that I opened on Cypress.io a year ago