Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Recently someone bought my darkest roast and wanted to know what I added to it to make it shiny.

One of my (paying) side projects is going well. So far the client is pretty much just letting me do what I want, which means I get to work on new stuff that nobody has yet. That's always fun.

There will be at least a little splash over into Typica as a result of this project.

Another project that I'm not very involved in yet will require a new Typica release as well. All of the code for that one will end up MIT licensed but I still need to keep it to myself for now.

Drinking a cup of yesterday's roast of cemetery dried coffee (the one where I pre-sorted that to remove the defects before roasting).

Opted for a slightly slower (first roast had severe tipping) but lighter roast. I'd like to have a little more intensity of flavor like I got on the darker roast, but the people I've shared both with generally prefer the overall flavor of the one without the defects.

Was glad to be able to taste a coffee that is unlikely to ever be produced commercially.

While I was out at lunch a shipment of chocolate came in. That comes packed in shiny metal bubble wrap to keep the cold in the box. This is nowhere near as good for popping as the more familiar kind.

2nd batch of my cemetery dried Mexican coffee looks much better. I'll taste it tomorrow.

I had extra funds in my Japanese PSN account so I picked up Gensokyo Defenders. It seems odd that all the trophies are in English when none of the rest of the game is. #touhou

FedEx driver confirmed he never tried the front door yesterday. Was expecting 1 coffee sample, got 7. Between those, the coffee I got yesterday, and the coffee I sorted yesterday, there's a lot to do at the lab roaster.

While I didn't get the coffee samples I was expecting, I did get some unexpected hand delivered coffee samples.

Here's the blog post where I write about the stuff that I did in Seattle. https://typica.us/events/2018/05/03/expo-2018-recap.html

81 pounds of tea on the way.

And now I have a 4th email today from FedEx about the package they lied about trying to deliver. No new information has been conveyed.

This coffee had all the defects except fungus and severe insect damage. After sorting those out the coffee is still ugly, but ugly is not a defect.

Given decent tasting results on not a great roast with the defects left in, I'm optimistic about this next batch and curious how this could have turned out with professional processing at a real mill instead of just spreading the coffee out over a cemetery.

That's an odd thing to see.

Should have looked at the other half of this before roasting it. Will pick out the defects before roasting the rest of this.

Apparently instead of 1 email from FedEx today I got 3. The first letting me know that they really meant it, delivering the package today. The 2nd lying about attempting to deliver it, and the third letting me know that they'll try again tomorrow. There's no way any reasonable delivery attempt would have failed.

The cat wants to "help".

red lights are not stop signs.

My latest video just passed 500 views. It's about how temperature measurements get from a sensor into a logging program and some of the stuff that can be done with that data.

Lots of people use settings that aren't optimal for their hardware and understanding what's going on under the hood can help people diagnose those issues and understand which of those can be fixed with a simple settings change and what sorts of things are better addressed with better hardware.

https://youtu.be/___jFPe5GSs