I think I've found a good name for the web thingy I've been developing lately. The only conflict I could find was with a university physics lab doing work very far removed from mine, it's an acronym that succinctly describes what the thing is for, and it can be pronounced as a word that resonates with why I'm putting work into this at all.
This may or may not be related to my general dislike for user interfaces that involve fussing with boxes on screen when all I really want to do is just type in the exact values I want and have the computer respect that.
I've considered also letting people click to set control points and edit the curve that way, but I've used editors that work that way and hate it. Mouse cursor just doesn't have the precision to make that a good experience and I shudder to think how awful that would be on a phone or tablet.
Had a weird baking soda experience today. Shelf had the major national brand that everybody knows about in a little box plus a store brand container. The store brand got you two and a third times as much in one container, but it was priced 10x. I can't imagine they're selling any of that unless it's to people who are just not paying any attention at all to what they're buying.
@mhoye I held off on getting a cell for a long time (I hate talking on the phone) and indeed for my first cell phone I never even bothered to get it connected to the cellular network. It was a Nokia N900 which I used as a pocket sized computer that could run software that I wrote use WiFi for networking. I had a prototype cupping app on it that I never got polished for general release but was faster for recording observations than anything I've used since.
@cpsdqs None of them can keep their hands off the PR once they do, though. I mean look, right now you've got some billionaire launching a bunch of stuff into space probably to blot out the sun and what does he do? Buy a social media site and proceed to run it into the ground.
@cpsdqs Look, everybody loves to complain about the sun but whenever anybody tries to do something about it everybody is all, oh no, gotta stop the super villain.
There's a lot that I could add to the web page thingy I've been working on lately, but I think I'll just see what I can get done by the end of the weekend and maybe throw a version 1.0 online if there's nothing too broken so that other people can have a thing that's useful sooner rather than have to wait until I'm completely happy with it. It's already useful and usable enough for the main use case I had for making this in the first place..
What's up with all the sales pitches I'm getting for POS terminals lately? Emails, text message, in person visit from a sales person. As near as I can tell, the value proposition is that I pay way more money over time so my staff can be slower at helping the customers and I get some features that kind of sort of look like they might make sense if you squint at them just right but genuinely don't belong in a POS terminal. (If I wanted a POS terminal I'd just build a POS terminal)
Had a bit of time before I was going to be able to fire up the coffee roaster so I did a bit of work on the CSV import feature. Had a silly bug in the preview generation code that was highly likely (but not certain) to cause the browser to consume a CPU thread at 100% and all the memory it could get, but that's fixed.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.