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.

The cat's new plan to keep me home is to just cut off circulation to my legs

Ordered more coffee. Not as much as I wanted to order but I think it's important that I can pay for that and green coffee is expensive right now.

The cat seems to be eating more than usual today.

Bug of the day: swapped expressions for the result of a ternary.

Pair programming with the cat.

Saw a new cat hanging out in the back yard today.

How is it that Apple decided that an oversized folding iPad should come with MacOS but locked Vision Pro in the iOS ghetto? Kind of suspect they'd be selling more of both if they flipped that around.

So I got a Blu Ray drive that I can hook up to my laptop. If I pop in a disc and fire up VLC it says I can't play the disc because my drive is the wrong region. I have no idea what region the drive is set to and the drive didn't come with any software to change that. But I can use a ripper to extract the raw streams and get a nice set of MKV files that play just fine at full quality without needing the discs, no problem (actually better seek perf). Why do media execs think this makes any sense?

Someone just followed me on tumblr and I'm like, wait, didn't I get rid of that multiple acquisitions ago?

Grocery run was shockingly cheap. Store must be making it up on eggs which were priced multiple dollars higher than a store 2 blocks away.

Needed to hit a grocery store while doing errands for the shop and got a coupon for cat food at the checkout. I was planning to go back after work and buy cat food (among other things) so that's good timing.

Reasons to write your own software: So you can have good scroll bars instead of whatever that abomination everybody else seems to be using is.

The cat has not adjusted to DST.

Considering ordering a pizza.

Update: I can see the cat now. She's looking for things to shove her face into.

I wonder what the cat is getting into.

The cat has declared it hugs time.

This morning I woke the cat up by pulling my phone out from under her. She proceeded to curl up in my lap and go back to sleep there instead.

Started with the dumbest, fastest to write, least efficient implementation of a thing that should work and while in this particular case I know there's no way I'm going to ship this, I suspect that even a 10-15 year old computer would still run this at acceptable speed and I'm half tempted to test that idea.

It's cat o'clock.