Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Last night I did a rough edit of the first episode of "Coffee and Code" and it ended up at exactly 30 minutes. I feel like maybe that's a little bit too long for a vlog but if I'm only doing them monthly maybe it's fine?

Every time I pause to take a sip of coffee a computer voice says "coffee coffee coffee coffee".

Any time I use a piece of software that I know has a database and that I have the ability to access that database directly I like to poke around in that just to see how things work. While I'm not a fan of case sensitive tables/columns in the PeerTube database, things otherwise look reasonable.

Contrast with say, QuickBooks for Mac. The awfulness in their schema design (if you can even call it that) explains a lot of the problems with that program.

I'm going to take it as a good sign that this text is readable even on the little upload preview here. I was a little bit worried about that. I'll have a segment where I poke around a bit in the database behind my PeerTube instance and I'm tempted to do a separate video that explores what's in the database and walks through some of the stuff that's currently easier to find out with SQL than through the web interface, but I think I'll wait until after beta 10 for that.

Is the cat a co-host or a special guest?

Figuring out how I want to roast some new coffees today. For the first one I'll try replicating a sample that doesn't taste like celery.

Coffee comes from a fruit. It shouldn't taste like a vegetable.

Since rearranging things, the cat now sometimes plays the keyboard, usually by bashing her face against the keys.

If the volume is turned up, something in the circuitry picks up radio chatter, which is a little bit disturbing. It might be interesting to figure out which chunk of spectrum that's receiving some day. It shouldn't be acting as an RF receiver.

Just got off the phone with someone who will be teaching a sample roasting class next month and wanted to bounce some stuff off me after he found out that the equipment lineup is substantially different than what everybody expected. I'm sure he'll be able to make it work and we'll talk more soon, but I don't envy him having to deal with that.

@gnomon Thanks. I was one of the tasters who helped provide data that was used to decide where the various flavors on that wheel should go.

I asked one of my employees to take some photos of me for that Roast Magazine interview. Not among the ones sent was this one where I look positively terrified.

This feels incredibly sarcastic. #security

Clownpiece is very talented, being able to keep her torch lit while riding a water attraction. #touhou #visionary-fairies-in-shrine

You can be the fish you've always wanted to be.

https://mangadex.org/chapter/415768/2

@tommasz Bad pun, no cookie.

current cat

My mother found some old photo albums for me to go through to pick out some things for that Roast Magazine interview. There's a photo of me with one of my first coffee shipments that needed to get delivered to the old shop (building no longer exists) because the build out on the new (current) place wasn't finished yet.

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One of my former employees (she wanted to move to a bigger city) has been rapidly promoted in her new job (this is very common among people who used to work for me) and sent me some coffee from the roaster she works for now. My coffee tastes better, but it's not bad.