Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Lots of fragile stickers and the like for stuff that's in enough layers of good boxes that the stuff would probably survive getting driven off a dock.

Freight truck #2 for the day had a delivery encased in an insane amount of plastic for stuff made mostly out of steel.

Grind was covered in an article I wrote about centerlining your cupping protocol. Time is something that I've mainly covered in forum posts and in person classes. I don't think I've ever specifically covered spoon technique and that's an area where a video demonstration might be particularly valuable.

Most people prefer instead to go for enhanced skimming techniques that destroy cup to cup extraction consistency. That's not something that should be encouraged.

60 Second Coffee Tips was not a series that did particularly well, but I think I want to make another 3 episodes of that soon about how to deal with coffee grounds that remain on top of cupping bowls after skimming, each covering a different thing you can change if this is a problem: grind, time, and technique.

I'm not sure how this happened but I somehow managed to get pulseaudio to consume about 5.5GB of RAM while nothing was playing any sound.

The traditional Christmas animals: reindeer, hedgehog, sloth.

Freight company apparently just wanted to wait for some fresh snow before delivering the coffee. The alley was slippery enough that getting the coffee into the shop became a 2 person job because my feet would just slide on the ice when I tried to push the hand cart up the ramp. I think that's probably my last coffee delivery for the year.

@gnomon Aldi

How much energy do cats burn on vibrating?

@gnomon I didn't take a photo, but I can ask about it tomorrow if you want.

I need to stop letting my mother buy shipping tape for the shop. She never picks the good stuff, preferring instead for things that don't cut easily from the tape dispenser yet also manage to fail to stick to the boxes. In bulk.

How are these categories differentiated?

15 o'clock AM.

Ran the tracking number on my undelivered coffee and the web page says they're planning to deliver between 8:00AM and 15:00AM (!?) tomorrow. I'll believe it when I see it.

The coffee that didn't get delivered in its window yesterday also didn't get delivered today. I should ask my supplier to look into what happened with that.

Time for lunch.

@codingquark I used to have a good guide for setting that up bookmarked but I can't seem to find that anymore. It was a lot of initial setup (but still doable in an evening) the few times that I've done that, but postfix/dovecot will do what you want and doesn't require a lot of resources so it can piggy back on the same VM as something else if you've already got a server that's not at full load.

The main challenge is that the server software has tons of options you don't need.