Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I've had gift cards to a restaurant taking up space in my wallet for a long time but it's for a place that I've stopped going because they took the stuff I like off the menu and replaced it with less delicious options.

That this feature works as well as it does should cast severe doubt on any talk about the shape of a graph of rate of change over time. It's quite common that if you calibrate multiple roasters using this technique you'll have runs where the raw data and various calibrations for the same roast have completely different shapes. This work predated anybody talking about that and the best later research I'm aware of only seems to strengthen my argument.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/dee5ba1a-f455-45af-b8bb-cb17a6650d30

I wonder how much productivity is lost at small businesses from answering sales and marketing cold calls. One of these days I'll probably just cancel phone service at the shop. Most of the incoming calls are just garbage anyway.

Someone from Yelp keeps trying to talk to me but my Yelp strategy is to pretend that Yelp doesn't exist. That seems to be working for me and I don't need to talk to anybody about that.

@neal@video.typica.us I should really do an updated version of this video some time. The version of Typica shown is very old, the data acquisition hardware is something that I'm no longer recommending for new installs (they keep jacking up the price and have effectively dropped non-Windows support, there are other choices now that are better on both of those dimensions), and the coffee roaster shown is also not a thing that's made anymore.

I'm doing a lot of blend tasting today and seem to have forgotten to eat lunch.

I look forward to tasting that.

Apparently I'm getting a package from someone using software I've written containing coffee that was roasted at 7000 feet above sea level.

I think I broke the game. The boss didn't bother showing up for her final attack pattern, wasn't available to push after that timed out, and then the stage boundaries stopped working properly.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/2e528694-27a5-4d48-83cc-bb3c049a9ea5

Cat wants hugs.

Notes on Typica 1.9.1rc1 sent out to the release mailing list: https://tinyletter.com/Typica/letters/typica-1-9-1rc1 and posted to the blog https://typica.us/typica/2018/07/09/typica-1-9-1rc1.html

Typica 1.9.1rc1 is now available. There's a Windows build or source code to build it on Mac/Linux (probably other platforms as well, but none of those are tested, if it breaks on your platform of choice I'll gladly accept patches to fix that).

This reminds me, I should pack up a 1.9.1rc1 release.

There's a kind of trust that people have in this sort of software, that if certain data is being presented, if certain features are heavily advertised, that this exists because it's useful. It's a trust that I take very seriously when working on Typica.

Personally, I want to see better tools regardless of whether I'm writing them and I want to see these tools used to their full potential in helping coffee roasters better understand what they're doing and help them roast coffee in a way that's consistent and in a way where they're getting the results they want in the cup. When software makers introduce features that work against these goals, that can cause a lot of harm to the industry.

One the one hand, if competitors want to turn their product into trash, that's probably good for guiding people toward better options. On the other hand, it means that I'll need to explain to more people again why they really don't want me to copy those features in Typica.

The cloudy competitors to Typica that some people are foolish enough to spend thousands of dollars per year on should at least hire me as a consultant to explain which feature requests are useful and which promote poor coffee roasting practices. One of them announced a big list of new features that's heavy on the latter category.

warm cat is warm

@ChrisTalleras@mastodon.art Library of Congress has a lot of public domain material. https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/ Other sections of the site like the map room also have a lot of good material available.