Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Finished integrating the new evaluator for mathable fields in Typica 2 and did some performance testing. Despite the utter garbage quality of my code with considerable room for performance optimizations when I'm in a better head space for that, it's producing results that are always correct in 10s of microseconds where the old code was producing results that were only almost always correct in hundreds of microseconds.

Note to self: when dealing with linker errors that should be impossible, try "make clean" first.

Today's scheduled work from home day turned into a show up for a split shift day, but when I got home after the first chunk of work the neighbor's tree was no longer in my yard and there was a big fat bird hanging out there instead.

I think I've just decided that we never got any Final Fantasy games other than 1-6 and confusingly, 9. A shame they stopped making those.

Any performance difference is not all that important here because it's for low volume interactive use and either would give apparently instant results even on machines that would have been considered low end a couple decades ago, so it's really just personal curiosity.

Finished up some code that I've only been able to get a bit of time here and there to chip away at which would have gotten done a lot faster with a larger contiguous block of time to write it in. Kind of want to benchmark it against the code that it's replacing because on the one hand what I just wrote is not even remotely optimized, but on the other hand it does way less than the code it's replacing.

Today's weird request was from someone who brought in their random probably stale coffee from who knows where and wanted to know if I could brew it for them in ways that we're not set up to do in any reasonable amount of time. Pro tip: Coffee shops are set up to use their own coffees, they have a menu of offerings, and if they're aware of the relevant food safety regulations they need to abide if they want to operate legally they can't use random ingredients of unknown origin. Don't be that guy.

Dear transphobic text message survey spammers, please resign and live a better life.

Getting a little more time to continue work on an improved mathable field for Typica today. Not enough time to actually finish the work, but at least it's become obvious what the rest of the code needs to be and I just need to type it and put together a bunch of test cases to make sure it does what I think it does.

The cat wants to be up on stuff but doesn't want to do the work of jumping herself.

@mauro Very much depends on the friend, largely uncorrelated with their views.

Continuing to work on blend updates with new ingredients. The first blend matched just swapping the new ingredient into the old recipe, but the 2nd one needed the proportions adjusted from a 50/50 to a 60/40. The rest of the blends on my list are more complicated and may need more substantial recipe changes.

It's been a few years since the last time this was true, but Qiqi is once again my hardest hitter in Genshin Impact. Congratulations, Qiqi!

My sister sent a text message asking me to buy salt. My phone notified me of this about an hour after getting back without the salt.

Tasting production test batches of the new Costa Rican coffee. Medium roast from the previous lot is on brew so for that one I could do a side by side by side. Very good match.

The sweater I'm wearing today is about 25 years old. It's held up pretty well and still fits.

Finished tasting the initial exploratory series for the Costa Rican coffee that got delivered yesterday. Based on this, test production batches will come in a little bit lighter than the previous lot, though the lighter of the two roasts I'll do is still just a bit darker than the owner of the farm this coffee came from recommends.

Sometime after my lunch break and before I got back home after work the cat decided to go on a rampage. No apparent harm done, but that's somewhat uncharacteristic of her.

@Taweret Remember that the holodeck records all your kinky warp core fetishes and will happily replay them for anybody who asks.

My mother is taking some time off work because she's having trouble with her arm. Naturally this prompted her to go out and buy a new paper shredder that is too heavy for her to lift in her current state so I'll be going over to her house after work to help her with that.