Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Fixed a problem with the online ordering where it would allow orders to be placed that can't successfully be charged under some circumstances. In one case I was able to fix the customer's input failure and process the order, but today's order couldn't be repaired and I just had to cancel it. Now the system should just reject the order with a meaningful error message and let the customer try again.

Thinking of suggesting $20.91 as the price for this ebook.

https://roastingbook.coffee/rcpd/

Thoughts?

A repeat order came in through the web site today. Different name. I think they just spelled it wrong last time.

Visited Autumn after work.

Note for anime dub directors/ADR people: cache only has 1 syllable.

@gnomon @pamela I don't currently run a subscription service. Might look into setting one up in the future, but right now people who want me to mail a pound of coffee need to place an order for what they want. I do try to avoid sourcing and roasting for bog water as a flavor note.

There's a giant raccoon making the rounds. I declined to run it over as it crossed the street in front of me.

More feedback coming in on the Roasting Styles Exploration Kit. An excerpt from the latest, "It really shows how dark roast is not evil"

@dansup Any guesses on how long until they shut it down?

Chapter 1 needs another relatively large section. Will try to write that today.

Some automated system just kicked out a three year old meeting cancellation email. The really strange thing here is that the mail server that sent that didn't even exist back then so I'm assuming someone is migrating something and tried to preserve pointlessly stale data through the process for some inexplicable reason instead of just cutting over to a fresh system.

Looks like another mug shipment arrived today.

@gnomon The most important part of cupping is getting the coffee into your mouth. The importance of the slurp is over rated.

@gnomon They're intended as production roasts. It's odd that coffee people have wanted to put them on a cupping table at all.

Maybe they'll try ordering again once they figure out what their address is.

Refunded an order. I think they screwed up their shipping address. Also never replied to the email I sent letting them know that USPS returned the box and asking them how they'd like to proceed (I offered to either resend to a different address or refund the order). Given the lack of response, I decided to just issue the refund since I don't want to keep money for a product they clearly never received. Sent an email letting them know about the refund and reminding them why that was issued.

Helped my mother eat tacos. Here's her cat on the cat shelf.