Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Got far enough on the current chunk of code to find more bugs to fix. There's a little more functionality to add, but I want to do a bit of clean up first.

My pack of free COVID tests arrived in the mail today.

@gnomon I remember one time I was teaching a coffee roasting class and I called attention to my station instructors before telling the class (truthfully) that I've stolen at least one idea presented in the class from each of them.

@gnomon That's fine. I've made a whole career out of stealing the best ideas I could find.

I think I might order a pizza for dinner tonight.

@goat@hellsite.site I don't know if this was ever rolled out, but Venezuela's old communist Internet (which did get used to pretty good effect for factory coordination) was supposed to have dials people were expected to use to report their current happiness.

Grr... the coffee that I ordered is not quite the coffee that was delivered and the one that I wanted most urgently is the one that got replaced with double of a different coffee. Hopefully they didn't double sell my coffee and I'll still be able to get it, but the person responsible isn't answering the phone so hopefully they notice and respond to an email promptly.

The cat wanted hugs last night.

Expecting some new coffees to be delivered tomorrow and then another new coffee next week. One of the coffees showing up tomorrow needs to wait while I sell out of the coffee it's replacing, but the other three I can start working on right away.

It seems that I've been drafted into another guild. I've worked with at least three members in their leadership on some project or other over the years so I'm assuming they want me to work on something again.

The cat is requesting hugs so I guess I'm hugging the cat now.

Always nice to get a phone call from another coffee roaster just to chat about what we're up to these days.

@MyriadTribulations @fribbledom Sadly, remote work and flex hours wasn't really a thing back then and the commute to the next city over would have been rough. Not to mention school during working hours. Wouldn't surprise me if the kids these days are getting away with that, though (and good for them).

@fribbledom The first time I got a message from a recruiter I had to send back a message that pretty much boiled down to, "dude, I'm only 12, someone's going to notice that at the interview."

Our COVID czar (my mother, a former nurse who has relevant educational and professional experience to interpret the local data for us) has authorized re-opening the seating area, so I'll be bringing chairs back out later today. If customers are willing to behave responsibly over the next few weeks as cases are expected to continue dropping, we'll be more likely to add more chairs, but given how people were acting before I removed the chairs last time I'm not optimistic.

I'm not going to buy one right now but I kind of want to get something like this some time and make Typica work with it. I think this could be a very good machine to hook into a coffee roaster. The analog input lines look like they should be upgrades over what's at my lab roaster without ripping that up too much and the dual RS-485 ports would make hooking up to a lot of things made these days pretty trivial, and then there are uses for lots of the rest of the IO.

https://www.uugear.com/product/pigear-nano/

@technomancy You could perhaps just redefine famous and/or contact?