Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@gnomon I hope you enjoy them.

@JordiGH It doesn't help that for a lot of people their only exposure to even the concept of significant figures would have been a long forgotten high school chemistry class.

2nd email on the roasting book email list is going out now with a preview of the ebook I've temporarily pivoted to. The first (and previous) message went out near the end of October so I'm keeping my promise of this being a very low volume mailing list.

It's more positive than some of my past emails to people in that organization. I half suspect that I'm on some list of people to contact if you want the answer, "this is a terrible idea and here are the many reasons why you don't want to go that route."

Personally, I'd be happy to see the machine in a class, but the manufacturer would need to supply an instructor who is willing to bend their automation system in ways that run counter to why anybody would buy one of their machines to begin with so I guess I'll find out within the next couple months if anything happens with that.

Today I got an email from someone working on organizing the next event I'm teaching at asking if a specific machine would be a good fit for the classes. My lengthy reply basically boiled down to saying the machine can theoretically be used to meet the objectives of the classes I'm involved with but none of the station instructors will be both willing and competent to use it in that capacity.

@cwebber@octodon.social Other options: powerups at set points in each stage (spawn them just like enemies or drop from specific enemies), purchase power ups between levels (I like how Hitogata Happa handled this). Random too often just feels unfair at a certain skill level.

@gnomon I think most of the delay was getting the box out of Chicago. Tracking says it's in Toronto now so hopefully that gets delivered soon.

Quality time with the cat

#caturday profile

USPS claims to have delivered 4 of 6 boxes of Roasting Styles Exploration Kit that got mailed. One had a failed delivery attempt and the other is going to Canada and will take a while because of that. Shop's web site is updated with a new coffee from Brazil and removal of a coffee from Peru which I can't roast any more of (some is still available in shop).

Today I'm wearing the objectively best sports mascot.

Given that only 8 of the Roasting Styles Exploration Kit boxes were made and there's some good information inside, I've decided to share the PDF. Here it is:

https://atelier.wilsonscoffee.com/s/3zfAmtXFKsAEis4

I want a beverage but there's a cat sitting on me.

2 boxes of Roasting Styles Exploration Kit have been packed. A missing word in the write up included with each box has been corrected (I wonder if anybody getting one of the first 6 will mention noticing that). I just need an outer label and a price to see if anybody local is interested in buying those. Once those two are gone, that's it. I'm not making more unless I can expect to move at least 10 of them.

Today I took 6 boxes of Roasting Styles Exploration Kit to the post office. I have enough coffee to maybe make up 1 or 2 more boxes, but if I need more than that I'd have to roast more coffee so I'd want to know I had demand for a bunch of boxes before doing that to avoid wasting a lot of coffee I could otherwise sell as normal product.

@debugninja@banana.dog I'm using a System76 Oryx Pro as my daily driver. Works well EXCEPT: I've replaced the CPU fan (and instead of sending the correct replacement part they sent GPU fans multiple times), a bunch of keyboard keys and the keyboard backlight has failed, and while firmware updates seem to have fixed it, early on I had some troubles where the machine would get itself into a state where the only way to restart was to open the case and disconnect/reconnect the battery cable.

@debugninja@banana.dog I just want something thick enough to fit working fans and a keyboard that doesn't self-destruct before I'm ready to upgrade.