Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Cat time

morning cat

Who's a good cat?

One of the limitations of the new device I've been using is that it constrains its output to a range ~25-95 Agtron gourmet scale, but one of the first significant events in coffee roasting involves that measurement going off the scale (my benchtop analyzer would put it around 130). Decaf coffees, however, often start out brown so they reach their brightest at a reading that's still in range. That inflection from coffee getting brighter to coffee getting darker is where tasteable chemistry starts

This game has the worst text based overworld map I've ever seen. #tootctl

It always feels a little strange fixing a bug in a program written in a language where I rate my proficiency as "I know of this language", but having a REPL helps. Anyway, this is how my current graphs looked today. Much better. I'm still not doing anything on the receiving end to clean up that signal.

With default data acquisition hardware settings, no calibration (just going from the specs), and no attempt at doing anything to smooth things out, this is my first attempt at capturing degree of roast data in Typica. Apparently when the measured values are out of range on the high end the signal drops out on the bottom (I need to verify that and make sure it's not a bug in my software). It's a noisier signal than I'd like, but I've got some tricks that might help with that. Still promising tech

Today I helped my mother buy and set up a new television. It came with a pretty nice cat mat.

Earlier she was on top of the big printer.

Look what I found cleaning out an old computer room, weighing in at 990 pages, the Internet Starter Kit. Complete guide to what's hot, what's not, where it is, and how to get it. Comes with TurboGopher - Tunnel through the resources of Gopherspace.

Affectionate cat is affectionate.

This is the latest cat to start hanging around the house.

Sent the prototype roast cam back. They're going to put some cooling on it to make it work better and send it back. The mounting holes aren't problematic.

I pretty much skipped over USB sticks for file transfer so now that I need one to update the software on the prototype analyzer I have Neptune's head as about my only option.

quality time with the cat

Such a deal

I've been asked to not show the inside of this or leak the source code (which I amazingly do have access to), but here's that prototype now that it's hooked up reasonably.

New coffee delivered.

Totally normal grocery store decor.

She looked bored until I started to take a picture.