Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat thinks it's very important to always be within petting range, just in case I happen to want to pet a cat.

There's a laptop on my lap so the cat is settling for being curled up next to me, still in petting range.

Email: We've noticed that you haven't opened our emails.
Me: Nice to know that my mail client isn't leaking the fact that I've opened your emails, but I'm fine with not getting them.

A roaster friend just reached out with a problem that the project I've been working on lately might be useful for sorting out, so despite the fact that I'm not satisfied with the current state of things, I've put up the very much WIP and have my first outside of my company tester. It's not really in such bad state as it sounds like there. I should just need a few good extended sessions to slam out the rest of my to do list.

Made some UI decisions today. Might change them later, but it's enough that I can build the features, see if that'll work well enough, and change it later if it turns out I've made a horrible mistake.

@stux I'll double down and assert that exo also doesn't mean not, further pushing the planet count into the realm of more than we'll ever know about.

@stux The main problem is when people (generally not planetary scientists) insist that "dwarf" somehow means "not". Personally, I'm fine with unlimited planets (where would we be if biologists decided there were just too many species?), but what's up with lumping gas giants in with planets? Jupiter doesn't even properly revolve around the sun (too massive).

I don't understand puzzle naming.

I keep seeing what I assume is some kind of anti-spam detection technique of including a couple random lines that look like they came out of an 18th century melodrama and I can't imagine that actually works very well, yet I keep seeing it (I'm not using a spam detector).

Got one item off my to do list today.

Decided that between the fall promotion and current content it's fine for me to have a Paramount+ subscription for a little while. Is there a recommended viewing order for all of the Star Trek that came out after Enterprise? (currently going through Lower Decks)

Finishing up payment processing stuff for CRUCS today. I'm going with a pay what you want model for this where you can use it without paying for it, but I'll also accept money.

Taste testing yesterday's production test batches. These were roasted against plans adjusted in CRUCS (I copied in the milestones from the initial exploratory roast and then made adjustments intended to get something easier to do with a larger batch size and based on the initial sensory observations) and the results are quite nice.

Or at least that's what I would be working on, but the cat says no so I guess I'll have to finish that up later. A nice side effect is that the settings fields will start out displaying their current values instead of whatever the browser feels like inappropriately auto-filling (Firefox wants to do crazy things when I change the forms).

Working on adding settings persistence to CRUCS using Window.localStorage. For example, I have graph defaults set to 20 minutes by 500F which is a nice safe default for most of the roasting machines still running, but there are also a lot of faster machines being operated by people who don't need a duration that long or people who prefer °C. They can change their preferred settings once and CRUCS will keep the updated settings. Settings (or anything else) are never sent back to the server.

Left the cat curled up in a blanket when I went in to work. Got home to find her in exactly the same spot. Of course, now that I'm back she wants to sit on me instead.

Tasted the test progression from the new coffee that got delivered the other day. Used the not quite finished yet CRUCS to make a couple tweaks to the plan before doing the production test. This is a lot faster than the old internal tool I made CRUCS to replace (I also wrote the old tool).

Today's coffee delivery contains a claim I haven't seen called out on a bag before. Not sure what it means, but I'm pretty sure most plants are technically solar powered.

me: *trying to do anything*
cat: hello, I sit on you now.

Today's coding seems to be mostly tests.