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Update to Pumping Inventory

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Just rolled out a small change to the Pumping Inventory page to display the total volume of “lost” or “discarded” milk. We also added a new option to record milk as “donated” based on user feedback. You get to these options by clicking a container on your Inventory page and clicking the “retire options” link.

Donated, lost and discarded milk on your Pumping Inventory page

Donated, lost and discarded milk on your Pumping Inventory page

We had to Reboot the Baby

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

We made a mistake during routine maintenance this afternoon which abruptly brought the server down. We realized the mistake immediately and began fixing it, but we had to completely rebuild the server which took about 6 hours (1:38pm to 7:44pm ET.)

We know the downtime was very frustrating, but we’re happy to report that not a single piece of data was lost because we maintain live (realtime) data backups on a separate machine.

As a result of today’s mistake, we’re adding a new level of backup service that will let us recover the server much faster in the event anything happens in the future.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience — on Mother’s day no less! — and have added an extra week to every TT account to say thank you for your patience today.

The last thing I want to mention is that we couldn’t communicate via trixietracker.com today, but we were updating our Twitter and Facebook accounts. If you don’t follow us already, please do. It’s a good way to get information about the site. Happy tracking!

Roll Your Own Remote Baby Monitor with Trixie Tracker Data

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Data-driven parenting just got a whole lot geekier. Have you ever wanted to display your Trixie Tracker data in the real, physical world? All it takes is some hardcore engineering/CS background, an Arduino circuit board and access to TT sleep probability data. Jason, our lead TT developer, had all of the above in spades and created a cool project that allows him to wire up live TT data to series of LEDs that display a child’s current sleep state and expected sleep probability in the near future.

He documents the whole fascinating project on his blog (Warning! His post is not for the faint of heart.) It’s definitely possible that there will be easier ways to display your TT data in the future, but this is a pretty cool proof of concept.