Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I wonder if my house has Internet service yet. No updates since the third one that stopped estimating last night and it was still out when I left for work.

Did a bit of work on the print styling for the thing I've been working on lately. I want this to be usable by people who don't have a computer connected to their coffee roaster and the easiest way to go there would be to print something nice to paper that someone can slap into a clipboard and have ample space to write in their measurements and observations.

Have gotten 3 notifications about the outage: one letting me know about it and estimating a repair completion time. Another with a revised later completion time. A third with they're working on it but who knows when it'll be back up. In unrelated news, I'm finally finishing off a bottle of scotch I was given a bit over 1.5 years ago.

Weather has once again knocked out wired Internet in my area. The cat is taking comfort in curling up in my lap.

And a good choice for domain name isn't registered for that. Should I go ahead and get that? Hmm...

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.

Added the ability to mouse around the graph and get some useful information in response. The vertical line follows the x position for the mouse while the horizontal lines show the temperature and rate of change given in the plan for the given time. A text box gives all three values.

Have I mentioned lately how I hate graphics programming? Yeah, still true.

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.

@Taweret This reminds me of the time I got spam from someone who was happy to know that I was in the market for life sized animatronic dinosaurs. Not sure how I ended up on that list.

The cat was still asleep when I went into work this morning so I'm getting extra attention from the cat now.

Making the graph on the web page I've been working on lately interactive to make it more useful. Pretty straightforward code, but finding the relevant bits of documentation to write it was more hassle than it should have been.

Used all the coconut in today's baking.

Realized I didn't need some recently written code and removed it.

Doing some refactoring from my initial quick and dirty port to enable a few features that I think are important. Also, I can barely hear anything today. Nurse mother thinks it might be wax, but the stuff she recommended for fixing that hasn't worked yet.

@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.