Update for the week ending on Friday, Jan 5, 2024

TinyPilot

Management

• Started working with accounting firm on 2023 R&D tax study
• Began work on process to spot-check manufacturing issues as batches arrive to our warehouse
• Did capacity planning for 2024

Customer support

• Experimented with using Vale for automatically linting prose on our docs site
  • Results look bad so far, as it seems impossible to get it to catch anything without also flagging 5x as many false positives

Sales

• Met with a customer interested in a large purchase.
• Reached out to two bloggers about collaborations.
• Paid TinyPilot affiliates.

mtlynch.io

• Continued working on January retrospective

resticpy

• Expanded e2e test to take multiple snapshots
• Added more unit tests for snapshots() API
• Added a Nix flake
• Refactored restic install
• Upgraded to Python 3.12.1
• Upgraded to restic 0.16.2
• Added a script for enabling git hooks

optimism

I’ve been reading about Ethereum, Base, and the OP stack, so I tried tinkering with some OP stack code to get familiar with the code.

• Refactored some unit tests for simplicity
• Replaced single-use named structs with anonymous structs
• Defined a type for a variable that was inconsistently typed
• Proposed moving test files to a separate package (PR rejected)

Misc

• Completed 2023 bookkeeping.
• Learned to use Grafana and InfluxDB
  • Made a cool dashboard of my nightly restic backups
  • First impressions of Grafana: easy to make pretty graphs, hard to customize them
  • First impressions of InfluxDB: pretty simple and easy to get started, a bit confusing that they seem to have 3 different incompatible versions.
  • Having the restic backup data in Grafana is much more fun than just reading it in log files, and it makes trends much more obvious to me. I didn’t realize before how uneven my backup storage is across providers, which I think is a consequence of me not clearing old snapshots properly.
• Reviewed a PR to make title case optional in beancount-chase-bank
• Moved all of my fly.io instances to shared IPv4 addresses
• Fixed over-frosting in my freezer