Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

For any martians wondering where the kaboom is, it's apparently here.

Today's coffee is one that I didn't have any direct involvement in. It's pretty good.

Today's code is another case of taking a step back from the idea I started with and coming up with something better to do instead.

Continuing to make progress with the Typica 2.0 rewrite. Today I'm working on the Batch Details report. To start with this is just minor enhancements over what was in 1.9.1, but I've left myself some notes on what I think could be significant improvements some time after a preview release.

Went back to work on a half finished feature where the first way I wanted to implement it turned out to be non-viable. Deleted the files with code that was never going to work and replaced them with code that is confirmed to be doing what I wanted.

If FedEx really lost a package they wouldn't be sending me a notification from a domain ending in .lol

I suspect that the average age of people using my software skews older anyway (this is at least true of people who have told me in person that they appreciate what I'm doing) so they might even find such things more familiar/intuitive than what I did last time around.

Thinking about UI changes for features that still need to be ported over to a new code base (if I have to rewrite anyway, this is the time to make such changes) and I'm thinking that UI patterns I first encountered on 1980s era Macs might be a more appropriate choice sometimes. Definitely not saying they got everything right, but there's some stuff that's fallen out of favor that maybe shouldn't have. It won't take me long to mock something up and I can decide if I hate it after that.

@gnomon One down, two to go.

No cat sightings, but lots of small birds.

Good coding day today. Finished up a feature, tested everything, simplified, retested.

Today there was a big cat hanging out in the back yard.

Helped my mother with some Computering. I'm assuming there are settings I don't know about to tone down all the Apple trying to be helpful but really just getting in the way crap, but it makes me sad. They used to have taste. At least I was able to make it so she'll have an easier time with printing stuff now, but I probably need to spend more time on a current Mac to get more familiar with what settings need changing to make things easier for her. I'll also need that for upcoming sw releases.

Pushed some new updates out to the computer at the coffee roaster and while waiting on things there I took a little time to finish eliminating all the compiler warnings. One was a case of the compiler not having enough information to prove that the problem flagged could never happen, but I fixed it anyway so that future me can't break it. The rest were all about C++20 deprecating implicit this capture through =. I'd already cleaned up a bunch of those so I only had a few left to take care of.

Not sure why anybody would think I'd click a link in a random product advertisement sent as a text message to my phone and buy the product instead of hitting report as spam and block.

Started playing the Dragon Quest 2D HD remakes. Thoughts so far: I am disappointed that the game gave me a ghost instead of a slime as the first enemy (also, why are the slimes now gendered?) and I'm tempted to start over at the highest difficulty since I seem to want to play this more cautiously than normal difficulty warrants (I'm too used to NES Dragon Warrior, I guess). I do like a lot of the quality of life improvements and I adore the orchestral music.

The vast majority of my toll use is going to/from the airport since I'm about the same distance to either Milwaukee or Chicago and it's usually cheaper to fly out of Chicago (I always check both or in cases where the client is buying the flight I advise them to check both and go with whichever is cheaper) so the money in that account lasts a long time.

IL Tollway put a $10 credit on my account as part of replacing the old toll gadget with a sticker

Father's Day doesn't seem to be as good for business as Mother's Day on the day itself, though yesterday was the best sales day of the month at the end of a pretty solid week so maybe all the dads are just having their coffee at home.

There's some overlap with accessibility here. Some of my first users to respond enthusiastically were people who didn't need all the features, but loved that they could make what they did need huge enough for their aging eyes to make out easily.