TinyPilot

Management

• Signed up for JustWorks to handle employee payroll and legal compliance
  • So far, not terribly impressed.
  • The forms kept asking me nearly identical questions about my business, then reps started calling and emailing me with the same questions.
• Worked with inventory manager to prepare instructions for new employee to assemble Voyagers
• Continued working on leasing office space
• Started prepping some new test equipment

Software development

• Reviewed a PR that adds virtual media mounting to TinyPilot
• Reviewed a PR that allows user to change video streaming settings from the web UI
• Discovered that Vue was randomly crashing in production, preventing customers from ordering (!!!)
  • Found out because I tried upgrading my e2e testing to Cypress 7.0.1, but it was catching JS errors during most test runs
  • Added sentry.io to start tracking errors in production
  • Worked with TinyPilot’s website developer to identify the source of the issue
    • Apparently conditionally loading the mailing list in the page footer was causing it, but we’re not yet sure why.
    • Removed for now, and the crashes stopped.
  • Fixed a bug in the sentry gridsome plugin’s documentation
• Refactored a lot of the update logic and added more tests
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/636
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/640
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/641
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/642
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/643
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/648
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/651
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/654
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/pull/655
• Fixed some bugs in my Shopify automatic inventory updater
  • It’s a custom webservice I wrote that automatically updates my inventory spreadsheet in response to Shopify webhooks calls
  • Ignored draft orders
  • Fixed a bug where we could end up with duplicates if it failed to update the inventory spreadsheet partway through
  • Added a test CLI so I could run it without waiting for a real Shopify webhook
• Adjusted dialog menus to have consistent capitalization
• Made system menu items more concise

Customer support

• Wrote an blog post about accessing TinyPilot over the Internet with remote.it

New product researh

• Met with a cloud hosting company about a potential partnership

Sales

• Shared two new review videos
  • Lawrence Systems
  • DB Tech
• Chased down a bill from an IT sourcing company who bought on credit and was really taking their time to pay
• Met with a large customer about a bulk deal
• Pitched to appear on a programming podcast

mtlynch.io

• Continued working on post about LogPaste

What Got Done

• Added support for a WYSIWYG editor
  • I’d been working on this on and off for a year, so it’s nice to finally have it available.
  • I’m using it now to write this update!
  • …and I stopped.
  • Lots of performance problems when the entry gets long, need to investigate that.
• Started adding goroutines in places where I very obviously should have been using goroutines the whole time
  • Got a 10x performance speedup in a Google Analytics background task
  • Got a 5x performance speedup in pulling down recent entries
• Fixed a bunch of flaky tests
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/551
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/554
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/555
  • https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/560
• Refactored the entries logic into its own package https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/559
  • In general, I had been stuffing way too much logic into the API handlers, so the code became a huge mess. I don’t know that my new organization is the best, but I think it’s an improvement over the previous version.
• Added go vet to the build (and fixed an unsafe lock issue it found) https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/565
• Upgraded to Cypress 7.0.1 https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/547
• Added CI checks to enforce whitespace consistency:
• https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/566
• https://github.com/mtlynch/whatgotdone/pull/567

LogPaste

Meta: I needed a service where users could easily share TinyPilot debug logs with me, and nothing else matched what I was looking for, so I rolled my own as a fun weekend project.

• Wrote deployment instructions for Amazon LightSail

Misc

• Tried to get leftover COVID vaccine doses at two different places: no luck
• Had an electrician come and fix some light fixtures replace a bunch of old wiring in my basement
• Had my hot water boiler cleaned
• Got rid of some stuff on my local buynothing group