Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Full shop for today's fundraiser. Every January 1 for the past 25 years we open for limited hours and donate drink sales to charity. This year that's going to Racine County Food Bank.

Roast level testing on the new decaf Sumatra gets super sweet on the 2nd sip.

This is the time of year that I'm especially grateful for having spent the time writing Typica. It's so much faster (and more accurate) to sanity check quantities from a report pulled from the database than to estimate quantities of partial sacks of green coffee, match up stock with the right invoice in a filing cabinet, and multiply all of that out by hand.

https://typica.us/

Happy Inventory Day!

@debugninja@banana.dog

Also, someone snuck in an online order for Holiday Blend. I'll be pulling that off the site probably tomorrow, so if anybody else wants to get in on my last batch of this year's Holiday Blend, now's the time to place that order.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

There's not as much distinction in the colors as would normally be the case because decaf coffees start out brown.

New decaf from Sumatra #ComingSoon

ugh, bad night for lung function

@gnomon I'll take that under advisement.

@gnomon Hopefully the first one. His roasting book is actively harmful (and I'm sick of cleaning up that mess), but the espresso one is quite good.

Christmas was good. I got new floor mats for my car, chicken dumpling soup I didn't have to cook, and two cats sat on me. Also continued to work on an ebook to the point that I might have my first draft done before the end of the year.

From today's writing:

"This is not a best practice, but if management is insistent on such a misguided approach, you can at least make your sample evaluation relevant to that reality."

Today lots of people are buying coffee to use in the espresso machines they got for Christmas.

@mhoye why abuse SMTP when you can reinvent it poorly?

Today I got an email with no body. The whole message fit in a reasonably short subject field so that's where it went. No reply needed. Wish I got more email like that.

Today's work was all about sample roasting. It's heavily based on an article I wrote around 3.5 years ago, but fit with the context of the surrounding chapters and updated to reflect current practices.