Update for the week ending on Friday, Dec 15, 2023

TinyPilot

Management

Had three 1:1s with teammates
Started gathering W-9 forms from some of TinyPilot’s vendors

Software development

Tested upcoming static IP address feature and filed bugs about gaps in behavior
Brainstormed ways to debug rpi-imager
- We want to boot a custom Pi image from cloud storage, but we’re having issues getting it to work with the Pi bootloader

Customer support

Gave feedback on instructions for enabling TinyPilot’s WiFi AP

Sales

Worked with EU distributor on new pricing following shift to contract manufacturer

mtlynch.io

Published November retrospective
Published Using Zig to Call C Code: Strings

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.

Fixed a bug that prevented the release .tar.gz packages from really being gzipped

resticpy

Reviewed an external contribution to the forget functionality
Reviewed an external contribution to the stats functionality

Misc

Co-hosted Indie Founders meetup
Visited friends/family out of state for the weekend
Researched CO2 monitors
- It seems like CO2 concentration is negatively correlated with cognitive function, so it seems useful to monitor it.
- I was looking at Aranet4 Home, which seems to have positive reviews and is small and looks good.
- Then, I found AirGradient ONE, which seems appealing because it’s indie hardware and open-source like TinyPilot
  - But then I looked closer at the documentation, and it seems pretty bad.
  - It doesn’t look very easy to adjust the code or pull in updates from upstream
- Now, I’m stuck between Aranet and AirGradient
Topped up car tires
- They lose pressure when it gets colder
Did holiday shopping