Highlights

• TinyPilot is facing a supply shortage that will drastically limit its sales for 2023.
• Running leaner might not be such a bad thing.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program in Go. I found the book hit or miss. Some chapters were fascinating and taught me valuable Go lessons, while others felt boring and got too bogged down in the minutiae of third-party libraries. Overall, I’d still recommend it to anyone who considers themselves a beginner or intermediate Go programmer.

Highlights

• TinyPilot generated $112k of monthly revenue, breaking the six-figure mark for the first time ever.
• I grossly overestimated how much spare capacity TinyPilot’s fulfillment team had.
• Long-term tasks can be a canary for impending resource exhaustion.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Highlights

• TinyPilot had a new record month in sales, reaching $92k in revenue for October.
• I think I’ve found a third-party logistics vendor that’s a good match for TinyPilot.
• I’m scrambling to produce more cases before they become a sales bottleneck.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov demo Cypress at a 2018 web dev meetup in New York, and I was blown away.

Before discovering Cypress, I had begrudgingly used Selenium. Cypress was a refreshing leap forward, as it offered elegant solutions to tons of pain points that made Selenium impractical to use.