Week 386

Note that we’re writing these notes nearly 6 months late which is why they’re in summary form.

We were mostly focussed on Smart Answers during the week.

Smart Answers

• Add script to add/update an organisations fixture for a worldwide location #1699
• Avoid errors when requests exclude the response param #1655
• Improve “Next node undefined” error message #1687
• Remove check uk visa v2 #1691
• Remove check-uk-visa-v2 Smart Answer #1690
• Remove redundant simplified-expenses-checker-v2 #1702
• Remove unreachable “result” outcome from overseas-passports (part 2) #1694
• Remove unreachable outcome from overseas-passports flow #1678
• Remove unused methods from SelfAssessmentPenalties #1703
• Remove unused methods from childcare cost calculator #1692
• Spike: Add GA virtual pageview to outcome pages #1700
• Spike: Fix rubocop violations #1644
• Use ActionView instead of Erubis to render outcome templates #1686
• Use ActionView instead of Erubis to render outcome templates #1689
• Use Erubis instead of ERB for outcome templates #1682

GFR

• We hosted our 21st Show & Tell on Wednesday.

• James joined Ben G and a few others at the Barbican on Thursday and Friday for a bit of a hack session. James managed to get his sub-hunt game (written when he was a teenager) working on a JavaScript ZX Spectrum emulator.

• I created a new Trello account for GFR specific boards. I was previously using a single account but was feeling somewhat overwhelmed by having all notifications in my personal email account.

• We started using labels in Trello to indicate whether we’re waiting on input from either of us or from a third party. This helps us see at a glance whether our input is required to make progress with a card.

• We split a couple of the larger monthly Harmonia tasks: “Update FreeAgent and Pay Bills” and “Pay our Wages”.

• We started experimenting with using Harmonia to assign responsibilities for emails that need to be handled.

• Ongoing discussions with our new accountant to help him prepare our annual accounts.