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.

@ekaitz_zarraga No worries. Best of luck to you if you give this a go and if you have any follow up questions I'm always happy to chat about that.

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).

@ekaitz_zarraga @mhoye Before working on this, I had a conversation with another shop owner in the same industry at a trade event and he was very excited about his new ecommerce site, but then revealed that he'd gotten 0 orders through it (he still had old fashioned mail order customers), so my priorities were: 1. Doesn't cost if there aren't sales. 2. Can be built quickly with tech I already know and am comfortable with. 3. Easily integrates with my existing site.

wilsonscoffee.com/

@ekaitz_zarraga @mhoye Happy to talk about that. Most of the user facing site is static content regenerated as needed by Jekyll. Shopping cart, checkout, and the order fulfillment stuff for staff is done with tiny C++ programs (written more like C but bringing in some of the safer standard library stuff to hopefully avoid most of the footguns, PHP would honestly be a better choice here, I just hadn't used that in ages) sharing some common utility code. PostgreSQL, Stripe, and Shippo also used.

@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.

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.

Big Under The Porch Cat is in the back yard today.

Today my sister wanted me to fix a thing because she couldn't find appropriate pliers. I decided that the right tool for the job was a hammer.

Redesigning one of my most used reports. I'm hoping to improve efficiency, add a new feature, and improve the UI. It it works out, a lot of the work going into that will be applicable to other reports as well.

Successful grocery run. Cheese was on sale so I guess I'll be eating more cheese than usual this week.

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