Update for the week ending on Friday, Jun 9, 2023

TinyPilot

Management

• Signed with new contract manufacturer
• Led monthly support engineering meeting
• Met with 3PL vendor
• Had two 1:1s with teammates

Software development

• Planned tasks for next TinyPilot Pro release
• Finished reimplementing app_settings.cfg population without Ansible
• Refactored how we track default settings
• Reviewed adjustment to auto-PR workflow for Community -> Pro
• Fixed a break in license checking for Amazon customers
• Fixed integration tests for license checker
• Reviewed a bugfix in pi-expand

Customer support

• Iterated on documentation for special investigations

Sales

• Met with potential Enterprise customer

mtlynch.io

• Published my notes from Cory Zue’s livecoding recording
• Continued writing May 2023 retrospective
• Moved around my dev scripts to match the conventions I use in most repos
• Fixed CSS I’d screwed up for lists of posts

WanderJest

• Tried to make a minimal web app that used authboss, but I gave up
  • I realized I disagree with the design of authboss
  • If I’m understanding correctly, it needs to take ownership for template rendering in your app rather than using Go’s built-in template renderer
  • It’s not documented well, which is intentional because the author doesn’t want additional maintenance load from more users (which I get)
• Worked on replacing UserKit with a home-rolled auth solution.
  • I’m re-using the auth I implemented for ScreenJournal.
  • I’m trying to avoid WanderJest-specific logic so that I can extract it into a reusable library I can apply in other projects, but auth is hard to begin with, and abstracting it makes it even harder.
• Added a script to download the prod database locally

ScreenJournal

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

• Changed naming of Log in button and improved Playwright selectors

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 date parsing bug in the Date header

PicoShare

Misc

• Met with another ex-FAANG indie hacker
• Got rid of my old printer
• Got a craving to start playing Far Cry 5 again. Fun!
  • I play a total of about 30 hours of computer games per year, so this is somewhat unusual.
• Arranged repainting of my porch, which had gotten very paint-peely