- Edited and published two new articles from my writer:
- Lots of UI tweaks
- Changed related product suggestions to happen post page-load through JavaScript
- It turned out they were causing slow page loads because they required many needless datastore reads
- Realized my e2e tests had been broken and falsely passing for weeks
- It turns out that the default CircleCI
machine image uses an older version of docker-compose that doesn’t set a failing exit code when a child container dies with an error
- My app container was always dying, but Docker didn’t care because it was only paying attention to the exit code from the Cypress image
- Later versions of docker-compose properly set the exit code if the Cypress container fails to run
- Fix was to just add an explicit machine image with a later docker version (like this)
- Did lots of refactoring of my templates now that I understand Jinja templates better
- Added lots of new e2e tests to make sure I didn’t break anything while I was refactoring my templates
- Fixed some bugs in my hacky tool for finding crosslink opportunities between pages
- Added some new internal crosslinks between pages
I discovered there’s an official emulator for Google Cloud Firestore. Several people had created Docker images for it, but I couldn’t find anyone that had publicly hosted their image on Docker Hub, so I made my own.
- Cleaned up the README.
- Got rid of non-functional artifacts from the time the image was an emulator for Google Cloud Datastore.
- Added tests and CI configuration.
- Added sensible defaults for the environment variables.
- Added support for a user-configurable port number.
- Deleted the Redis datastore implementation I was so proud of a few weeks ago in favor of the simpler Firestore Emulator (#369)
- Switched to an explicit machine image in Circle CI (#368)
- I didn’t want What Got Done to get the same e2e false positives I suffered with Is It Keto (see above)
- Added support for “tiny” as a size modifier
- Added more pre-processing to throw away garbage in the ingredient string before passing it along to the ML model
- e.g., “2 cups corn starch (I use Foo Brand)” (the “I use…” is garbage)
- Tried to train a new model, but for the first time ever, new model scored worse than old model
- It was a difference of 1-2%, so I think it’s just noise, but I held off on releasing the new model to err on the side of caution
- Fixed 500-800 mislabeled training examples
Misc
- Attended a Valley Venture Mentors event
- Cool organization. They provide free funding and guidance to startups in the Pioneer Valley.
- Met someone at the event interested in collaborating on a niche software product
- Arranged a meeting for next week
- Advertised the next Indie Hacker Western Mass meetup on Hidden Tech, a mailing list I recently discovered for technologists in Western Mass.
- Edited essays for a friend’s grad school application.
Home Maintenance
- Discovered I have a mouse problem in my house
- They haven’t stolen any food yet, but I can hear them crawling around in the ceilings and gnawing on stuff
- Set a mouse trap, which ended up working amazingly and caught 5 mice the first night
- Consulted with some pest control companies to get mouseproofing work on my house to identify the mice’s entrypoints
Home Video Digitization
Last year, I digitized about 40 hours of my family’s old home videos and put them on a private media server for my family. I’m in the process of cleaning up my tools so I can publish a guide about this.
- Cleaned up logic for adding tags to videos
- The original code has lots of hacks and shortcuts specific to my family, so I’m refactoring all of that out so I can publish the source
Beekeeping
- After one week with the pre-winter syrup feeders
- Brown hive completely emptied their feeder:
- White hive only ate about half of their syrup
- Surprising given that white hive is low on honey stores, so they presumably need to store more
- So, I just moved the partially full feeder from white hive to brown hive
- Published Episode #13 - While You Were Sleeping
- Canceled my Libsyn account now that my migration to Anchor.fm is complete
- Fixed Permalinks (#48), which I had unknowingly broken when I migrated from Gatsby to Hugo (#44)