Update for the week ending on Friday, Aug 11, 2023

Short week, as I was traveling from Saturday until Wednesday

TinyPilot

Management

• Led support engineering meeting.
• Continued working with contract manufacturer on transition of manufacturing.

Software development

• Removed some effectively dead code from the uStreamer Ansible role.
• Removed an unnecessary git install from a CI step.
• Reviewed deletion of ustreamer_port Ansible role variable.
  • Easier to just hardcode it and limits confusing configuration states.
• Reviewed a PR to move localhost-only ports to less frequently used ports.
  • These ports used to be user-configurable, but since we dropped support for that, we want to move to ports that are less likely to collide with other services the user might want to install.

Customer support

• Reviewed updates to the TinyPilot audio troubleshooting FAQ.

Sales

• Fixed quality on the first demo on the TinyPilot website.
  • It was previously a smaller GIF that had a lot of compression artifacts.
  • I was defining a work item to reproduce it, and I realized that we still had the original capture, so I made it a streamable MP4 instead.

Misc

• Visited Hawaii for a wedding.
  • The wedding was in Lahaina, which took the brunt of the wildfire damage.
  • Fortunately, we left on Lahaina on Monday night, and the wildfires didn’t get serious until the next day.
  • We left Hawaii on Tuesday afternoon, which apparently was just before they began canceling flights due to the wildfires.
  • Everyone who attended the wedding was able to get out safely.