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.

Ported over a Typica 1.x feature into the 2.x code base and made good progress on a completely new feature. Probably won't be able to get the new feature finished up tonight after dinner but I don't see it not being ready for the 2.0alpha2 release some time before the end of the month.

Car repairs were faster than expected. Had I known they'd get to it as fast as they did I would have just waited for it there (trunk latch stopped latching so I've been driving around with some primary wire [it was what I had to work with when the problem started] tied inside so that it at least looked close enough to closed that other drivers wouldn't honk at me).

Two dreams last night featured a new character: a giant talking bee (approximately 5x normal bee size). I ate it part way through the first dream but it was back for the 2nd.

I seem to do this about once every 3-5 years (modifying someone else's Python, generally having no idea what I'm doing, but making it work in the end).

Needed a tool, didn't want to write it myself, found something that's almost what I needed, modified the Python to add the missing feature in a hacky works for me but would be totally inappropriate to upstream way.

I don't know Python but I can read the code, search for documentation, make reasonable guesses, see what the error messages say, &c.

Just saw a picture taken in my shop in the NPR app. The story wasn't about coffee (a politician who won in the election had done a couple things here and an AP photographer was out for one of them).

Finally got the time to update the shop's web site with the latest batch of new coffees.

I voted

Put together my development priorities for the 2.0alpha2 release and took care of what looked like the easiest feature to add. There's another item on the list that looks like it should also be a very small change but I should go to bed so that'll have to wait.

Weird that the PeerTube upload has 8x the views as the YouTube upload, but it must have worked because I haven't intentionally marketed the new Typica release outside of mentioning it here and in that video yet people are noticing it exists and sending money in support of the work. (I've been sending thank you notes.)

Video is done. Fedi gets it first. https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/1e770e6f-8bb9-4936-969f-1bc739c1e139

Rendering a short demo video for yesterday's release of Typica. It's just me roasting a batch of coffee (screen recording of the software as I'm doing that) and talking about the program, some cuts because the batch took longer to roast than I wanted to talk. Screen recording made with QuickTime Player, audio recording in Audacity, video assembly in Kdenlive, no AI.

And now the source code is also available for those who want to build this on other platforms. Maybe tomorrow I might be able to assemble a little demo video showing off the shiny new features. I did a screen recording of setting that up and roasting a batch of coffee with it last night so I'd just need a voice over and chopping that up a bit.

Typica 2.0alpha1 Windows build has been tested and is ready to go online as soon as I update the site. I needed to track down more libraries to include than I did on the Mac but the total size of the download is just a bit over half the size. That should be going up any minute now.

Bathroom lights stopped working last night. Fortunately I live alone and can just put on a hall light and leave the door open. I'm surprised that the bulbs that were there were still old fashioned incandescent. They've now been replaced with LED bulbs, apparently skipping over the CFL era.

Typica 2.0alpha1 for macOS is now available to download. Windows build, source code, and documentation to follow. I don't recommend switching to this yet, but anybody who is curious about some of the newer features I've been using lately is welcome to check it out.

This game has put me on two trains so far and I haven't had the option to suplex either of them.

Earlier today I saw a red and white truck that was completely covered with Christmas tree lights stuck on with blue tape getting loaded up with a very pink might have been a vending machine that I never really understood why it was in the space it was in.

Someone suggested that we should try to get a mayoral proclamation in honor of my shop still being around for 35 years, but we already got one of those shortly before my father passed away so I think maybe it's too soon for another one. 40 or 50 years seem like a better time to go for that anyway.