Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Got paid for those online classes I did. The totally legit check arrived looking like a debt refinancing scam so I almost missed it.

I should buy more food today.

Thought I heard a failing hard drive this morning but it was just the cat doing her failing hard drive impersonation.

quality time with the cat

Such a deal

Yesterday's front porch cat was there again this morning.

There was a smol black cat on the front porch when I left the house this morning. It ran off into the yard and watched me from a safe distance. I reassured it that I wasn't going to chase it, that I was leaving, and it could continue to enjoy the yard/porch. It was still there when I drove away.

cat: *hug*

Also that it's a lot faster to paste ~1MB of text into a text editor and save that someplace reasonable than it is to paste that same text into Terminal. I gave up waiting on that and assume I might have run into some kind of maximum line length in the shell had I kept waiting for that to finish.

TIL Macs come with a command line base64 decoder. Somehow Mail failed to recognize that an attachment was an attachment so I copy/pasted a giant wall of base64 into that to get the expected PDF back out.

Today I used all my cupping bowls.

Image caption is incorrect. It's CV voodoo, not ML voodoo.

I've been asked to not show the inside of this or leak the source code (which I amazingly do have access to), but here's that prototype now that it's hooked up reasonably.

Got home, started dinner, and the cat was all, "I need a hug." So I hugged the cat and she's calming down.

With all the stuff happening at the shop today I went in pretty early. Now I have a couple hours of the work day left but I seriously need a nap.

That third screen is also hooked up to a data acquisition device so as soon as I write the code to deal with it I'll be able to log that along with the temperature data.

USB extension cable acquired and installed. I now have three screens attached to my main coffee roaster. One is a laptop screen that shows my data logging, one is really for the other roaster but when that's not in use I can have it show a production dashboard, and the new one shows what the view through the sightglass would be if that weren't now covered up along with a reading on how dark the coffee is roasted (tracked live as I'm roasting it).

Need a USB extension cable to make the new instrument connected to the roaster reach the third screen. The cable is almost but not quite long enough to set that up in a way that still lets me conveniently reach all the roaster controls.

Prototype thing at the roaster is installed and working. I still need to write some code to interface with that, but that will be easy.

New coffee delivered.