Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Too much cat. Time for allergy meds.

piano cat

@gnomon Thanks. I'm trying.

Tonight's plan: cat cuddles and code. I should probably figure out a dinner as well.

How many hours will it take to "upgrade" a file that's only a couple hundred MB (would be much smaller if the file weren't polluted with garbage that's faster to compute in a delegate than query from the database)?

QuickBooks for Mac
pro: uses SQLite3 for data storage
con: nobody who knows how to SQL worked on that so their schema is a badly performing steaming pile of hacks.

If Typica development seems slow, it's because I'm putting my development time into paid work. A lot of that (hopefully all) will eventually make it into Typica at some point, but right now it's all wrapped up in NDAs.

There's a Send Money link in my bio here that people can use to help me spend more time on stuff that I can share immediately, but so far that's just barely covering hosting costs and I like to eat.

I am at least a little hopeful that I'll be able to bring them around since they're talking to me (someone who is known to put permissive licenses on code) instead of proprietary shops.

Multiple companies have recently asked me about doing new things around Typica, with each wanting a focus on one particular area that existing software (in general, not just Typica) fails at, but they all want to own the finished thing.

If I could get them to coordinate and be on board with sharing they'd all get something a lot nicer, but it's a challenge to convince the people with the money that cooperation is a thing you can do to get something better.

Bought another ~800 pounds of #coffee. Found a really nice (expensive, but worth it) Ethiopian coffee that I'll enjoy roasting.

re: last boost, this instance was affected but was promptly patched after private disclosure. No user data was compromised.

(or perhaps other programs just aren't as useful?)

I keep seeing photos of coffee roasting areas in which there's a computer set up for monitoring the roasts but it's positioned such that it's impossible to look at that and the coffee at the same time. I get that this can be challenging, but in most of these there seems to be plenty of space to set this up properly. Interestingly, none of these workspace abominations have Typica on screen, so I assume everybody using that is smart enough to set up a usable work environment.

It would be a big hit on Ferenginar.

Overall the lists of exempt v. taxable categories looks like it was created by dice rolling and now I kind of want there to be some kind of D&D-like game of "accounting adventures" in which players do things like roll for tax evasion.

Oh, and "school art supplies" are called out as still taxable. Art programs struggle enough without this kind of discrimination in the tax code.

Apparently for the purposes of that sales tax holiday, helmets are not considered clothing but lab coats are.

In Gensokyo Defenders, Sunny Milk's hair style and the camera angle often make it kind of look like she's wearing a cowboy hat. #touhou