Update for the week ending on Friday, May 5, 2023

TinyPilot

Management

• Hired new employee at TinyPilot office
  • Held four interviews
  • Gave feedback to everyone who interviewed
  • Started onboarding new employee
  • Wrote onboarding docs for the new role
• Terminated a software project that wasn’t working out
  • Did a postmortem meeting
• Placed new materials orders
• 1:1 with local staff member
• Continued moving planning with contract manufacturer
• Hired ad consultant to refresh TinyPilot ads
• Did new certificate of insurance for Amazon
• Signed paperwork for 2022 taxes

Software development

• Announced TinyPilot Pro 2.5.4 release
• Reviewed a PR to reimplement TLS key management without Ansible
• Reviewed an automated end-to-end test of the debug logs dialog
• Fix end-to-end test script on office laptop

Sales

• Adjusted TinyPilot pricing
  • We had our highest profitability when prices were $399 base / $498 PoE, so I’m going to see if that works
  • This is a 20% drop from our $499 pricing in April

mtlynch.io

• Started working on April retrospective

ScreenJournal

ScreenJournal is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.

• Allow users to add comments to reviews
  • Screenshot
• Allow users to edit or delete their review comments
• Added a count for how many movies a user has reviewed
  • Screenshot
• Reduced the number of general-purpose reserved words
  • I needed to separate words reserved for usernames (e.g., admin) from generally disallowed values for other text (e.g., null, undefined)

WanderJest

• Upgrade to go 1.18
• Refactored unit tests for name package

Misc

• Started experimenting with SyncThing
• Got annual auto inspection
• Searched for a financial planner
• Searched for new HSA provider
  • Fidelity seems like a good option
• Got rid of a bunch of old Marvel and Simpsons trading cards I had in an old box from the 90s