Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

One of the nice things about so much of Typica being defined by its runtime configuration is that it's almost always possible to just send someone a text file they can drop in the right place to add features or fix bugs in the default configuration. No recompiling required.

Got a bug report today. Fixed the bug. Sent the fix to the person who reported the bug. Surprised this one took as long to get reported as it did.

It looks like I'm getting a full nickel from Amazon this month. I'm still impressed that they send out such tiny payments every month (sometimes 4 payments of as little as 1 cent each depending on the regions people watch my videos in which they never lump together into a single transfer).

@yabirgb The PostgreSQL documentation is very good and free.

I was a little worried about having something at such a high price, but it took less than a day to sell out my first production batch of Mocha Java Blend. Will make more tonight.

One of the bags of coffee that arrived today had a sticker on it saying that it was for a different coffee roasting company. I don't know if I know anybody who works there now, but someone who used to work pretty high up there is the person who asked me to develop a new profile roasting class. That class ended up getting delivered pretty much unchanged by dozens of instructors around the world for about a decade.

@trf@mstdn.social When the WI Supreme Court pushed through holding elections in a way that was unsafe, that was the violation of rights.

The truck is late. I think it might have my Costa Rican coffee that the warehouse neglected to load on the first attempt.

Because of how much I spent on the new coffee from Yemen, it looks like the new Mocha Java Blend is going to be a little more expensive than anything currently in the product line, and then the new Yemen will be more than that. Setting the retail pricing for the new coffee from Yemen at $27 per pound (margin is a little lower than I'd like at that), Mocha Java Blend at $22 per pound.

More data acquisition hardware arrived today. I'll need to add some code to my software to support that (should be very easy), but this will let the software that I use at the coffee roaster get data from the prototype instrument that I can't talk about. After that prototype arrives I'll have the next challenge of figuring out how to most usefully present the new data series which may or may not involve a little more new code.

This is what I've been working on all day. #RoastingStylesExploration

I got mailing addresses for everybody in the class who failed to provide enough of an address that USPS would be able to deliver. Packing those boxes up today along with a bunch of online orders.

I'm going to have so many boxes to mail tomorrow.

Yesterday I roasted the last of my previous lots of coffee from Brazil and Papua New Guinea, new lots of which also arrived on yesterday's shipment, so those are the next coffees I'll be figuring out, but those are not ready to taste today.

Cups on the lighter end had great sweetness but lacked body. Cups on the darker end had the body, but lacked the sweetness. In the end, I decided to use cup 6 as a starting point (right at the start of second crack) but make several adjustments to the roasting plan to try to try to increase both sweetness and body.

Same evaluation protocol, this time with 12 cups, each a different roast level. The first three cups were overly vegetal, the last three cups were too smoky (though the last cup is actually an excellent French Roast to keep in mind if the Brazilian coffee I bought for my next one of those doesn't pan out). The middle six, however, was quite difficult to choose among.

The next coffee to figure out is a peaberry from Blawan Estate on the Indonesian island Java. That means odds are very good I'll be able to put together a nice Mocha Java Blend. When the first Mocha Java Blend was marketed, supply chain traceability was bad enough that the ingredients might not have come from Yemen or Java, but my Mocha Java Blends always do.

Checking the roasting data, cup 6 ended about 13 seconds and 5F° past the start of second crack.