Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Today I'm wearing a new dino mask my sister made for me.

cat

The same flavors are also available in dog.

Also in today's deliveries, Yoga Cats. The directions say to use water, but it's better with warm milk.

Konpaku Youmu is always ready for Halloween.

Some new mugs arrived today, but not the Christmas Sloth mugs.

what'cha doin?

From lightest to darkest, those would be cups 3, 6, 9, and 12.

Roaster cam is reinstalled, now with a giant heat sink and a fan.

Frog bag is almost empty.

Did someone share one of my old videos this morning? It's also available on PeerTube:

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/a4aecb05-2e2b-4b80-a532-b1a78155139b

The cat has declared it hugs time.

Today's deliveries included this box of mostly free cat toys. (some cats enjoy these cardboard packing materials)

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