Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

#introduction

I'm part owner and roaster at a little coffee company in Wisconsin. Author of Typica, a popular free program used to capture and work with coffee roasting production records that's used at roasting companies all over the world. Volunteer on the Roasters Guild education committee. Available for paid coffee consulting, training, open source software development. Living with a cat who broke into my house and decided to stay. Likes: cute, travel, food. Dislikes: blinking lights.

Had a customer try to order his very normal drink by ordering a completely different drink plus the modifications that convert that to what he really wanted. I told him what his drink was called and charged him for that instead of ringing up the more expensive combination of things he described. (Please use a third the word count and save 10 cents.) Had another customer I just had to say no, you can't have that (they eventually picked a real thing that exists and is even on the menu).

Considering changing up the design of the thing I've been working on lately. I probably still want all the same pieces but I think there might be significant efficiency gains if I invert the data flow.

I don't know if this is something that hit all locations or if it's just the one I was at today but it looks like there may have been a software update to the self checkouts at Aldi and it now takes 3x as long for me to check out waiting for the computer to process my item scan. On the off chance the person responsible for that sees this, please roll whatever the hell that change was back. Another acceptable resolution would be bringing back more check out lanes and staffing them adequately.

Cat insisted on hugs.

I think I only need to find two more numbers for my accountant to be able to finish my taxes. It seems like I ought to have an electronic copy of one of those numbers but I do not so I think I need to dig out paper for both.

SLoC written today probably nets out around 0, but I'm ending the day in a better place than I started so that's something.

Sega should make a Sticks the Badger detective game.

Staring at code I wrote and then deleting chunks I'm pretty sure I never needed to write.

The cat should not try to help at pinball.

There's a new cat in the back yard.

Playing the new Phantom Brave game.

It's been a couple weeks since I've roasted coffee (did none of that on vacation) but it seems I still remember what I'm doing.

Gate assigned turned out to be pretty close to the art installation I was in, but of course I had wandered off pretty far by the time that assignment happened. Still have some time to wait before boarding.

Found a food. It's more food than I wanted but if my phone is telling the truth about the exchange rate I'm eating cheap enough that I won't be too concerned if I don't finish it.

Long layover at ICN. There wasn't a gate assigned for the flight yet so I'm just hanging out in one of the art spaces. Will probably look for food once more of the shops open.

None of the machines at the airport liked my passport. Had to abandon self check in because it scanned my passport to look up the flight then wanted to scan it again to match me against the booking which somehow failed (it was the same passport both times). Later there was another passport scan which I needed help with because machine says no. Despite that I've made it to my gate in plenty of time even with a food break along the way.

Taxi was earlier than I booked. Don't know how long they were waiting for me, but no waiting required after the hotel checkout so that's nice.

Hope ATC will still be on the job in Chicago when my flight is trying to land.

It's the last day of my vacation (though I do have 24 hours of air travel as well) and I woke up with my ears already feeling stuffed up and hearing everything at low volume. Hope that clears up soon. Late check out was available so I won't have to worry about what to do with my luggage in the several hours between normal check out and when the cab picks me up to go to the airport.

Got a new year's promo at the coffee shop I've been having breakfast at. I think it may have been the first one they sold as the manager was showing the rest of the staff how it worked.