Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@yomimono So far, so good. She already has a cat seat built into the sofa.

Found a cardboard box that works very well as a lap desk. Large enough to hold both my laptop and a full size keyboard (since laptop keyboards don't last as long as the rest of the laptop), rigid enough that I can move it easily, good working height.

Didn't completely finish the code I was working on today, but I got a good portion of it done and what I do have seems to be working correctly. Might pick it back up after dinner while there's a chance the design will still be in my head. I'm continuing the trend of the new code being simpler than what I wrote the last time I solved this problem so still feeling pretty good about this rewrite.

New power adapter for an old laptop arrived today. That fixed the power issue that developed a few days ago. Glad I could keep that running with a cheap fix.

The cat says it's time for hugs.

Today was a highly productive day of coding. It's a rewrite of stuff I'd previously written, but now there are relevant language and library features that didn't exist the first time around so I can write it smaller, simpler, and with fewer hacky workarounds.

me: *tries to play Tetris*
cat: *moves head between human and screen*

Got back a nice info dump in preparation for the next class I'm teaching. Assuming I get all the supplies I want I'm looking at doing 4 little coffee tastings throughout the class. One with 5 coffees, three with 3, but it's all the same coffee just roasted in specific different ways.

Video of this morning's run: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/e3246e2a-de75-47d9-87fd-e63f0e4c95b0

It's still about 100K lower than the biggest Qiqi hit I'm aware of, but this morning I set a new personal best in single target Qiqi damage. That's as far as I'm going to be able to push things without either a different combo setup or better artifacts so I think I'll be taking a break from cryo burst Qiqi and going back to my preferred physical build. Of course, my old best hit 3 targets so combined damage was higher there. #GenshinImpact

If I receive a phone call from an automated dialing machine with a recording that kind of sounds like a computer synthesized voice claiming to be an officer, can I say I hung up on robocop?

The cat is on patrol.

@gnomon That's pretty much exactly how I ended up living with a cat.

How do we all feel about cats tonight?

That hit for just under 283K used food. This hit for just over 291K did not. In other words, I just need to replicate this with food buffs to set a new personal best for single target Qiqi damage. But I'm mostly out of meat and fish so I'll keep play testing some options and see if I can get something better or close enough with easier execution requirements.

28 fragile resin worth of artifacts later... Still not pyro Qiqi level, but pretty good. #GenshinImpact