Update for the week ending on Friday, Feb 3, 2023

TinyPilot

Management

• Gathered feedback on manufacturing quality for new cases
• 1:1 with team
• Purchased New Year’s gift for Chinese manufacturing partner
• Prepared for first dev/support multi-team meeting
• Started planning for shifting assembly to our Chinese manufacturing partner
• Finalized travel plans for the UK

Software development

• Debugged data sharing issues with EU partner
• Added support for Voyager 2a purchases with license check

Customer support

• Reviewed updates to article about improving performance
• Undeleted old installation instructions
  • A week after I deleted them, a customer who waited two years to open his package emailed me about the dead link!

Sales

• Tried to get Voyager 2a listed on Amazon but was stymied by Codisto’s terrible Shopify integration

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.

• Added email notifications for new reviews
  • Example
• Changed email notifications to use Go templates instead of simple format strings
• Changed from a 10-star rating scale to a 5-star rating scale
• Enforced Content Security Policy
• Redirect to the login page if an unauthenticated user visits a page that requires authentication
  • Previously it would just give an ugly HTTP error
  • It also saves where you were trying to go and redirects you after authentication
• Made title search elements look nicer
  • #112, #113, #115
  • Before
  • After
• Throttled title search so that auto-complete doesn’t feel like it’s constantly reloading
• Specified an autofocus element on every page with a form

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.

• Made a lot of sloppy changes to CSP
  • Fix Firefox CSP error about media-src data: URI (#394)
  • Tightening CSP for style-src (#393)
• Inlined JS and CSS tags for every page template
  • #380, #381, #382, #383, #384, #385, #386, #387
  • I found a CSP-friendly way to do this, and I prefer it to jumping around between files. It ends up feeling closer to Vue’s single-file components.
• Configured Prettier to ignore Go coverage output

mtlynch.io

• Worked on year five retrospective

Dusty VCR

• Met with freelance podcast editor

Misc

• Fixed a leak in my bathroom sink
  • I had to learn to replace a supply line, which wasn’t that bad
• Attended Woodland Jokes comedy show
• Attended Luthier’s comedy showcase