Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tasting the roast progression on the decaf Brazil that arrived yesterday. The lightest roast I pulled is a bit brothy, but it's possible to get a decent light roast out if you want that. Really opens up nicely right around the start of 2nd crack. Can also take a dark roast, though I do have a couple samples where that's been pushed too far.

Spent some time working on styling for the videos page being added to CRUCS with the next update. That will collect video tutorials for people who prefer to learn about how to use CRUCS by that sort of example rather than by just messing around with it on their own or reading the text based resources. Text will, of course, continue to be available and updated as new features are added.

Trying out the new Star Ocean 2 remake. I never got to finish the original because there's a section that I assume is near the end of the game with a bunch of boss fights in a row and at least when played on my PS2 the game kept crashing anywhere from at the end of each boss fight to shortly after it and eventually I couldn't manage to get from the fight back to the save point before it went unplayable.

It seems my phone has resumed the whole not bothering to ring when a call comes in thing.

I'll also want to do a video demo explaining the new feature, how to use it. I've written about the analysis technique it exposes in the past but other software writers never really picked up on this and it's enough of a pain to do by hand or in a spreadsheet that I don't think many people look at their coffee roasting data in quite this way (even though they should if they really want to understand what they're doing).

Was able to finish up the last little bit of work I had on the main feature addition for the next version of CRUCS. I want to sit with this for a bit to see if there are any more changes that I want to make (and also do more testing) before rolling that out, but hopefully I'll get that released pretty soon.

Did a bunch of coffee roaster cleaning today. More of that got done as planned because one of my employees got bored and started scrubbing stuff for me and I wasn't about to turn down the help.

Ordered more coffee. Went through as 2 orders because my supplier didn't have what I needed in 1 warehouse.

Not sure what's going on with this, but today is the 3rd day in a row that I've had a big batch of French Roast on the roasting schedule.

I don't sit on the cat when she's trying to eat.

Have you appreciated a cat today?

I voted.

Ended up cooking an Easter lunch because my mother wanted the local family over, but she's been having some movement issues (is working through it with her doctor) and didn't want to do the cooking herself. I opted for a stir fry because I don't like her oven.

The cat has declared it to be hugs time.

@Taweret What if it was Planet of the Raccoons?

The cat is shoving her face in my mug. I guess I'm not refilling that tonight.

How do we feel about cats tonight?

The cat is really into hugs tonight.

@mhoye @rstevens Sorry, I don't really pay much attention to what other roasters are doing unless they're asking for my help. I did roast a nice batch of Tanzanian coffee earlier today (my current lightest roast) but the stuff that goes to 2nd crack or beyond sells a lot better here. People can prefer different things without lacking taste, though I do feel that there's less emphasis in training on fundamental reasoning around how roasters can manipulate flavor these days.