Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

New hardware update. The stuff that should work with code I've already written has shipped. The stuff that I need to write new code to use it is backordered for... about 6 weeks.

The house next to mine has had a broken window for years. This morning there was a cat sticking its head out of the window watching me leave for work. I don't know if this is a case of someone with a cat moved into the place or if this is a cat like mine who just decided to move in through the broken window.

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Ordered an assortment of new data logging hardware to try out. Some is stuff my code should already work with and other I'll need to write new code. One goes up to 1kS/s which is complete overkill for coffee roasting but it'll be nice to know that my code can ingest that.

@gnomon You probably don't want to pay and wait for postage from Wisconsin and these might not be what you want anyway, but I have a few at MSRP in stock if you can't get it fixed. Bodum Bistro 1L in shiny or black for $49.99, an electric adjustable temperature Oxo Brew 1L at $99.99.

It's nice when things work.

Some constants are more constant than others.

Spent some time fleshing out a new data model for externally sourced data in Typica 2. For the 1.x versions all of that was coming from a PostgreSQL database, but Typica 2 is adding more options (one similar and one completely different) such that it makes sense to make more of the code oblivious to where its data came from.

Today I used all of my cupping bowls. Some more than once.

@yomimono I'm not using the webhooks at all.

@yomimono In my case I was using the Stripe API for payment processing which has excellent documentation (the curl examples are reasonably easy to translate to whatever you want to use for that). The coffee shop additionally uses Shippo for postage rate quotes and label generation. Otherwise, my guiding principle was to keep things pretty much as dumb as possible (but no dumber) and log everything in case I messed it up. Happy to chat if you have questions.

I tried making a fun little post elsewhere but one of the replies that came back was, "Suddenly I feel so incompetent." That makes me sad.

@deshipu@mastodon.technology Reminder that chupacabara make terrible pets.

@goat And here I thought kings were willingly paying the money as a rental charge for "kidnapped" princesses.

Tonight's coding: first thing I wanted to try wasn't going to work without resorting to dirty tricks so I backed out of that to see if I could come up with a better idea. Next approach was both cleaner and more powerful. Then I reorganized it a bit to shrink it down and make it less likely that I accidentally break it in the future.

The cat is feeling extra blob-like tonight.

Put in some basic scaffolding for one of the next features I want to work on. Also got my tax stuff from the accountant, which I was starting to get worried about since the new guy is bad at email.

Bought another 10 bags of coffee today. A bag of coffee is about 60Kg (132ish pounds).

It's a cat.

The relevant state and city departments for such things have always been pretty proactive about passing along useful information to me and I think they appreciate that we take not killing people seriously.