Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Updated the support message on https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/1bc870de-8296-4c6f-8f7b-c390e7eba136

Previously, this pointed people at a crowd funding campaign, but that doesn't seem appropriate now that it's over.

social.typica.us updated to 2.4.3rc1. For some reason not all of the new functionality showed up in the 2.4.2 update, but it looks like everything is here this time around.

Companion articles for 60 Second Coffee Tips have switched to using PeerTube embeds for the 8 out of 11 episodes uploaded last night. The other 3 have references to the YT channel that I'll want to edit out. https://typica.us/tips/index.html

Once this batch of uploads is processed, https://video.typica.us/ will have 28% of the contents of my YT channel plus some stuff that's not on the other site. That includes most of my most popular stuff.

Uploaded some more videos. For most of this batch I tried including custom thumbnails/previews. Seems odd that PeerTube seems to only support JPEG for that. My existing graphics were PNG so I needed to convert those. If you're following @neal@video.typica.us you'll see those as the transcoding jobs finish.

Today was entirely too stressful. Looking forward to hugging my cat.

Also got chocolate. I was hoping that wouldn't ship because it wasn't going to go anywhere yesterday but the cold packs and shiny metal bubble wrap kept that from turning into choco-blobs.

3 out of 4 giraffe mugs arrived completely smashed

In today's shipment, I was worried that the stuff was going to fall out as the delivery driver failed to notice that the tape closing the box was all only located on a single flap. I'm honestly surprised anything managed to stay in the box on the way here.

More mugs arrived.

One of my suppliers has shipping practices that are completely insane. Highest rate of things arriving broken of any supplier I deal with. They know they're awful at this so they're really good about dealing with us not paying for broken stuff. I'd think it would be more profitable to do things like use a little packing material, make sure outer cases are properly taped, but this is how they've always done it and they don't seem interested in fixing their shipping issues.

The problem with holidays is that when I have the day off I forget to make coffee. Now it's 7:19PM and I haven't had any yet today. Clearly it's time for an espresso.

Make it safe and sane.

https://youtu.be/Yn0ejr7-_rc

cat

If someone wants to talk about baseball with you and you have no clue, just tell them that you don't have the express written consent of major league baseball. MLB's claim is ridiculous, but it gives you an out.

Nothing kills an Uta Macross session like the orientation sensors deciding you've flipped the device upside down mid-song on higher difficulty levels when you're on track to full combo.

The site update that will happen with the 1.9.1 release is going to add recurring payment support so people who want to support ongoing development of Typica financially can choose between 1 time payments (just like are currently available) and monthly payments.

I hope that some day the people who want me to improve free software I've written will collectively provide me with a budget that I can use to cover costs associated with that work.

Any time I'm working on code on and off over an extended amount of time before testing I get unreasonably excited when that works exactly as expected.

Enjoying a nice oolong tea.

Browser spell checker doesn't think oolong is a word; wants to suggest oblong, Woolongong, longing, Long, or long.