Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

There's probably a reason why mail servers don't have a way to temporarily whitelist receiving replies to messages they've sent but someone should probably work on that given the gross and intentional incompetence on display among blacklist providers.

Evaluating the new decaf Peruvian coffee that was delivered yesterday. This is one of those that's hard to screw up as it's delicious across a broad range of roast levels and the changes are somewhat subtle. If you're the sort who has strong preferences for a particular roast level you can probably just roast it like that and expect to get something nice as a finished product and if you're not that skilled at controlling the roast you can be off by a lot and still end up close in the cup.

It turns out that a bug I thought was resolved is not. At this point I'm probably going to have to resort to entirely too much logging to get to the bottom of this.

Today's coffee delivery has arrived. I've also placed an order for a couple boxes of this one to arrive soon. I'll have to charge a lot for it and I expect it to sell out pretty fast. https://royalcoffee.com/product/3427097000044428849/

@mhoye The trick is to just call more stuff copilot.

More Costa Rican coffee got delivered today. It's the same lot as the previous delivery so no need to rework the roast profiles there.

Replied to an email that seemed to be legit, but their mail server said unknown user so they're going to need to fix that if they expect replies.

Needed to rework a couple blends now that I'm out of coffee from Sulawesi. The next Breakfast Blend might be my new favorite among the blends. It's using coffees from Mexico, Guatemala, Sumatra, and Papua New Guinea (watch for a roast on date later than today).

@mhoye I tossed together my own thing. Very barebones, but it only incurs costs when I'm selling and the code is small enough to fit in my head when changes are needed. I do not recommend it.

Today's coding was mostly just reading documentation that's a bit too diffuse and figuring out what all goes where to make the computer do what I want. There are examples out there that are all not quite what I need, but now that I've sorted out the foundation there's a lot that I can build on top of today's work. I could have taken a few different approaches and not had to go through the hassle, but the end result of today's work seems like it'll be nicer to work with in the long run.

Two coffee orders have been placed and the rest of what I want to buy will have to wait a little.

One coffee order has been placed.

Sorting out coffee purchases. I probably need to spend about $10K now-ish and then more next month. Slim pickings on decafs right now, but there are some interesting things that I think would be fun to bring in as limited edition coffees. I'll need to convince my sister that that's a good idea so we'll see how that goes.

Spent some time automating some server admin stuff.

@mhoye Wisconsin wants to know what's wrong with the rest of the country.

Found laptop screw but this one doesn't seem to be missing one.

@mhoye The one by me was fine but not good enough to stay in business. I prefer the local place that's been around forever.