Update for the week ending on Friday, Jul 21, 2023

TinyPilot

Management

Two 1:1s with teammates

Software development

Led TinyPilot dev team meeting
Reviewed a fix to the Cython 3.0 / pyyaml break

Customer support

Reviewed support article about bringing your own TLS keys
Revised installation instructions for TinyPilot Community
Continued fighting with Amazon on a $1k refund
- Warehouse sent the customer USB-C units instead of PoE units
- Customer asked us to replace it with the correct PoE units
- Amazon auto-refunded the customer because they saw them ship a return back to our office…
- I created a support case, and they rejected it because, “You listed the item against a detail page that it did not exactly match. When you list an offer, it must exactly match the brand, manufacturer, UPC, model number, edition, quantity, packaging, and color of the product on the detail page.”
  - I’ve appealed because it’s crazy that the customer would get to keep $1k worth of merchandise for free because we sent the wrong item the first time.

mtlynch.io

Published Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4

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.

Reviewed a contribution that made Litestream retention configurable
Cut the 1.3.6 release

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.

Allow up to 100 matching message patterns

Misc

Did monthly bookkeeping
Cleaned my mini-split filters

Vacation

Visited Charlotte, NC for the first time
- Highlights
  - Stroke mini golf
  - Butter chicken at Exotica Indian Restaurant
  - Waffles at The Workman’s Friend
  - Giant chocolate cake at Mimosa Grill
  - Strawberry cream cheese french toast at Flying Biscuit