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.

Catfoot

Probably won't be able to get to it until after the start of the year.

I've wanted to do something like that for a while anyway to set different PID tuning on startup to get up to temp faster then switch over to settings for stability and maybe do an auto-off timer. A lot of industrial stuff is simple enough and uses stuff that's sufficiently standardized that these sorts of things can be hacked together pretty easily.

Swapped out part of a heat sealer. Relay on the old controller was periodically failing closed which is the wrong failure mode. Thinking I might pop a Pi or similar with a relay hat and wire the RS485 pins on the controller to act as an extra safety monitor/shut down power to the controller in the event of PV exceeds SV by too much. There's room in the sealer and it's a relatively cheap mod for some extra safety.

Staff tried to close the shop a half hour early.

Found and fixed.

It looks like there's an error in a template somewhere that I should track down. It's double closing body and html tags.

I've been wanting to get to that for a while but I never copied those files over to the current computer and I couldn't remember exactly how I had things set up on the server.

Those updates go a lot faster now that I just push changed source files to a git repo and jekyll automatically generates the static files there. It used to be using FTP to transfer files generated by m4.

Updated the coffee list on the shop's web site to reflect current offerings. Nobody reads this. https://wilsonscoffee.com/coffeelist.html

Hard to work on stuff when the cat has your arm pinned down.

Cat is purring loudly and really into the head scratches tonight.

Drafted a few more sections of my coffee roasting book. I think these sections need graphs. I should put together placeholders to insert so I don't forget to go back and create those.

As expected, no bomb went off.

Funeral had too much food so I have another plate to eat before changing water filters.

I also didn't pay the people who threatened to publicize me masturbating and the porn I was watching. That threat always seemed kind of weird. Like, if anybody noticed they'd probably share a kink and that could be the start of a deepening friendship.

A 2nd, slightly different version of the same bogus bomb threat just arrived. Still not buying it.

Another day, another day I'm not going to get around to updating my servers. I don't want to let my Mastodon/PeerTube/Gitea/Nextcloud installs get too far behind the latest releases but I've got too many other things that need attention right now and it's not like I've got a lot of users to support on those servers.

Just got a completely non-credible bomb threat by email telling me the bomb won't go off if I send bitcoin. Let me be clear. Even if I believed that there was a bomb (and I don't), I would not pay them. The last line is particularly amusing.