Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Notes on Typica 1.9.1rc1 sent out to the release mailing list: https://tinyletter.com/Typica/letters/typica-1-9-1rc1 and posted to the blog https://typica.us/typica/2018/07/09/typica-1-9-1rc1.html

Typica 1.9.1rc1 is now available. There's a Windows build or source code to build it on Mac/Linux (probably other platforms as well, but none of those are tested, if it breaks on your platform of choice I'll gladly accept patches to fix that).

This reminds me, I should pack up a 1.9.1rc1 release.

There's a kind of trust that people have in this sort of software, that if certain data is being presented, if certain features are heavily advertised, that this exists because it's useful. It's a trust that I take very seriously when working on Typica.

Personally, I want to see better tools regardless of whether I'm writing them and I want to see these tools used to their full potential in helping coffee roasters better understand what they're doing and help them roast coffee in a way that's consistent and in a way where they're getting the results they want in the cup. When software makers introduce features that work against these goals, that can cause a lot of harm to the industry.

One the one hand, if competitors want to turn their product into trash, that's probably good for guiding people toward better options. On the other hand, it means that I'll need to explain to more people again why they really don't want me to copy those features in Typica.

The cloudy competitors to Typica that some people are foolish enough to spend thousands of dollars per year on should at least hire me as a consultant to explain which feature requests are useful and which promote poor coffee roasting practices. One of them announced a big list of new features that's heavy on the latter category.

warm cat is warm

@ChrisTalleras@mastodon.art Library of Congress has a lot of public domain material. https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/ Other sections of the site like the map room also have a lot of good material available.

Now playing そらをとふﾞゆめ / DREAMS OF FLYERS (2A03 VERSION)

You can find it hiding somewhere on http://rumia.hungry.jp/

Posting this graph so I can link to it. How coffee mass changes during roasting.

3 more Yoiyami Dreamer vids transcoding now. Wriggle Nightbug's route. I might go back to show the differences in Cirno and Mystia's routes. A Nintendo Switch port of this game was recently announced but I doubt a US release is coming any time soon.

Given that the story is told primarily through pictures and gestures I wouldn't worry about a language barrier if you enjoy these sorts of games.

@chr@cybre.space I mostly interact with tumblr through the closest thing they still have to tracked tags (appending /tagged/whatever-tag in the address bar). I don't know why tumblr leadership found tracked tags so offensive, but they tried to kill the feature off a few times and it's considerably less useful/discoverable now than it once was.

Tweaked some settings on https://code.typica.us so ssh clones should work and anybody should be able to create an account to do things like open/comment on issues, work on their own forks of Typica, but not create new repos. Hopefully nobody will abuse that and I can keep it open rather than making people who want to contribute jump through the extra hoop of having me set up an account for them.

https://video.typica.us is likely to stay mostly coffee related, but I've got a couple non-coffee channels in there as well.

Rumia eating things. #touhou https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/9f943768-4572-40d8-9ad6-43dc16da9aec

Today I saw a dog in a parked truck sitting in the drivers seat looking like it was ready to start driving.

How many boosts/favourites does a cat need before it's considered fediverse famous?