Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tonight I'll find out how well my PeerTube instance handles 4K videos. So far (*shock*) the transcodes take longer. Moving another 4 videos over and created a couple new channels as a way to keep things thematically organized.

I'm going to run things through some more testing, but I think I'm just about finished with the changes that I'd like to get into Typica 1.9.1 so most of the work that's left to do is updating some things on the web site, updating documentation, and the like.

Another requested feature that doesn't require translation work: if remaining green coffee when entering batch data runs negative, the row turns red (either for initial quantity or after entering weight). This doesn't prevent you from roasting that batch, but it does provide an extra visual clue that maybe you should look at this a little closer.

@mario_champignon The way I did it required changes on the C++ side of things so you can't just grab an updated config file without rebuilding from source but disallowing negative quantities for green coffee in the new batch window is all set for the 1.9.1 release.

Scripted a quick video showing one of the new features pending for Typica 1.9.1 because while there will be a good explanation in the release notes and updated documentation, some people prefer to see a demo video.

I might be able to shoot that on Monday but I won't release the video until Typica 1.9.1 is available for download. There are still some changes I want to see if I can get in.

It's her chair now.

There's also a bug fix related to channel setting initialization for Unsupported Serial Device, but I might be the only person who ever uses that (it's handy for testing when you don't have real hardware since you can use it to easily whip up a device simulator).

The implicit limit is something like 2^30 characters (minus a few because you wouldn't put in only a batch for the annotation) but that encodes such a ridiculously huge number of batches that I doubt there have been that many batches roasted on all Typica installations globally combined. If you come anywhere near that limit, you seriously need to install your OS updates and restart.

The batch letters also expand if you're doing enough batches, so after Z you get AA through AZ, BA through BZ, and so on to ZZ incrementing to AAA. No explicit limit on how long that can get.

Added some improvements to counting buttons for the next Typica release.

Previously you needed to reset the count between batches and if you were doing several product development progressive roast batches and wanted the annotations to change between batches you had to set those manually.

Now you can set your annotation to something like %A-%1 and the %1 will, as usual, increment every time you press the button (but auto-reset at the end of the batch) and %A will increment between batches A, B

Today seems to be the day that I get domain name search engine registration scam spam from everybody running one of those scams. Pro tip: just post a link to your domain anywhere. The search engines will find it on their own just fine.

Drink more coffee. http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004408

Oh, and I got the other grinder to work.

Self hosting is a core value of Typica so I'm pleased to now have the source code hosted at https://code.typica.us

Still want to mess around with configuration/customization, but it's working and has a fresh commit to prove it. There are a couple related repos that I also need to migrate over and I also still need to move a bunch of videos over to https://video.typica.us which was also set up recently.

One of the two grinders appears to be DOA

Today I got a box of coffee grinders. I wasn't expecting those until Monday.

I didn't look at it very closely last night but the new table seems to have come with some vinyl topped protective things that you can put on top of it to protect the wood. I don't know how much I'll use that, but I guess it's nice to have the option.

I think I've got that audio issue sorted out. The sound quality still isn't as good as on my newer stuff, but I'd rather do a complete remake of the material than try re-dubbing the old version.

@davidrevoy I like B, but that might just be because I generally like birds with hats.