New staff laptop arrived! Thanks to
Got a Thinkpad T490 with a portable monitor (AOQ 4K 15") for an extra screen.
I am used to a 3 screen desktop setup so it all seems quite small but the aim is to be able to go nomad at short notice when lockdown lifts.
One small issue - the 'Thinkshutter' (the thing to block your webcam) appears to be missing. Nothing else so far but I have yet to boot it up :)
I am used to a 3 screen desktop setup so it all seems quite small but the aim is to be able to go nomad at short notice when lockdown lifts.
One small issue - the 'Thinkshutter' (the thing to block your webcam) appears to be missing. Nothing else so far but I have yet to boot it up :)
Ryan Glass
Author
I take it back - the Thinkshutter is there, it's just so slick I didn't notice it.
Ask for feedback on homepage design sketch
Tweet for
I shared a tweet about one of our beta testers:
RISE Design Studio who are an architecture studio in London. We have been managing their Twitter account for a few months now and grown their audience from approx. 1000 to 1660 and counting.
Check out their feed: https://twitter.com/RISE_D_S
RISE Design Studio who are an architecture studio in London. We have been managing their Twitter account for a few months now and grown their audience from approx. 1000 to 1660 and counting.
Check out their feed: https://twitter.com/RISE_D_S
Tweet for
Until I have some landing pages and content to link to I'll be doing this manually.
Check us out at https://twitter.com/twitmate - we followback!
Check us out at https://twitter.com/twitmate - we followback!
Work on initial design for homepage
Top menu, tagline and content text design completed
Streamline the set up process for new accounts
twitMate isn't full SaaS. It's part service part SaaS and there is a bit of work for me to do to set up new users:
- setting up a Twitter App and Dev Account for the user
- choosing hashtags
- writing Tweets
Today I went through most of this for the twitMate Twitter account, tried to streamline it and made a cheetsheet.
Hopefully this will mean it is quicker to do in the future.
- setting up a Twitter App and Dev Account for the user
- choosing hashtags
- writing Tweets
Today I went through most of this for the twitMate Twitter account, tried to streamline it and made a cheetsheet.
Hopefully this will mean it is quicker to do in the future.
customer support
Advice for client on setting up a subdomain for Shopify
Choose final logo for
After asking for feedback on 3 logos [here](https://getmakerlog.com/discussions/ryan_glass-which-of-these-3-logo-options-is-best), on IndieHackers and ProductHunt I finally decided on Option 1.
It was pretty close between Options 1 and 2 but the overall consensus was that Option 1 was more readable. Here it is in both dark and light:
It was pretty close between Options 1 and 2 but the overall consensus was that Option 1 was more readable. Here it is in both dark and light:
Send mailshot about recent blog post
Ask for feedback on logo
See it here: https://getmakerlog.com/discussions/ryan_glass-which-of-these-3-logo-options-is-best
logo design for
I have narrowed this down to a few different versions but am struggling to choose!
customer support
Tweet engine completed for demo here: https://twitter.com/BigToeWebDesign
I finally got a little while to work on twitMate today - a draconian lockdown here in Scotland for months means my kids are missing school and I get less than an hour a day for work. That's been filled with client work until today.
Happy to say that I made great progress in the short time available and finished off the Tweet Engine of twitMate.
I'm running a demo on the Big Toe Web Design twitter page - you can see the tweets that get posted via twitMate daily at https://twitter.com/BigToeWebDesign
Happy to say that I made great progress in the short time available and finished off the Tweet Engine of twitMate.
I'm running a demo on the Big Toe Web Design twitter page - you can see the tweets that get posted via twitMate daily at https://twitter.com/BigToeWebDesign
customer support
Publish new blog: https://downtimemonkey.com/blog/a-quick-study-of-response-time.php
A quick study of 1 million response times from https://downtimemonkey.com answers these questions:
How fast does the average website respond?
How fast does your site need to respond to make it into the top 10%?
How many sites are so slow that they are down at a given moment?
How fast does the average website respond?
How fast does your site need to respond to make it into the top 10%?
How many sites are so slow that they are down at a given moment?
