Update for the week ending on Friday, Mar 8, 2024

TinyPilot

Management

• Continued preparing reports for TinyPilot
• Did monthly bookkeeping
• Got process unstuck for refurbished devices
• Started preparing for retrospective on last release
• Documented how to share new release images with our partner companies

Software development

• Worked with team on process to announce new release to mailing list subscribers
• Worked with team to announce new release on Twitter
  • We had to work around a bug with Twitter delegated accounts

Sales

• Gave feedback on edits to our Raritan comparison page.

mtlynch.io

• Worked on notes about paid API providers

eth-zvm

eth-zvm is an experimental implementation of the Ethereum virtual machine in pure Zig. I probably won’t implement the whole thing, but it’s a fun way to play around with Zig on a project where Zig does seem to actually be the right tool.

• Got to the bottom of a performance mystery
  • I couldn’t figure out how performance was 10x better by adding an extraneous build step, but then Andrew Ayer figured out what was happening.
  • Fixed it by refactoring my script to create the input file separately
• Switched to a buffered input reader
  • I didn’t realize I was performing one syscall per byte read until Andrew Kelly told me
• Added support for the MOD opcode

Misc

• Attended NERD Summit 2024
• Booked a vacation with my wife.
• Cleaned mini splits.
• Decrystallized some honey.
  • I put it in my sous vide at 110 F for about two hours, and it was good as new.
• Added support for service fee removal lines in my Chase bank beancount importer