Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Our COVID czar (my mother, a former nurse who has relevant educational and professional experience to interpret the local data for us) has authorized re-opening the seating area, so I'll be bringing chairs back out later today. If customers are willing to behave responsibly over the next few weeks as cases are expected to continue dropping, we'll be more likely to add more chairs, but given how people were acting before I removed the chairs last time I'm not optimistic.

I'm not going to buy one right now but I kind of want to get something like this some time and make Typica work with it. I think this could be a very good machine to hook into a coffee roaster. The analog input lines look like they should be upgrades over what's at my lab roaster without ripping that up too much and the dual RS-485 ports would make hooking up to a lot of things made these days pretty trivial, and then there are uses for lots of the rest of the IO.

https://www.uugear.com/product/pigear-nano/

@technomancy You could perhaps just redefine famous and/or contact?

The cat wants to sit on me tonight.

Sometimes I need to remind myself that I'm writing my own code and if the interface to some piece of functionality isn't convenient for what I'm trying to do I can just change it and make things easy for myself.

That service is, of course, broken in oh so many other ways as well, but all of the alternatives also suck and my sister (who deals with this the most) already knows how to find stuff in the current system.

It seems that QuickBooks Online Payroll for Mac changed its export screen and now it's broken in such a way that it thinks February 15 is not part of February (but is at least part of the year 2022) and exporting from there doesn't work there at all on Firefox or Safari.

Relaxed cat is relaxed.

It's snowing and I still need to buy groceries.

The cat says it's time for belly rubs.

Some coffee that I was expecting to have in November ahead of the Christmas season might be showing up late next week or early the week after. It's unroasted and supposedly well packed so the delay shouldn't have much if any of a quality impact as long as I can still sell it all fast enough.

@sean I see this.

I will settle for another hot cup of coffee instead.

Wish I were at home hugging a cat.

Someone left a couple of puzzles still in their shrink wrap in the community puzzle exchange. One of them features a naked lady on top of a giant cake with freaky frosting animals around the edge.

One nice bit is that while the old deserializer needed to be (or rather, was convenient to write as) a whole class, the new one is just a free function.

Finished up the first bit of coding that I wanted to do today. This is a rework of Typica's old code for deserializing saved data to work with a new data model. The new code is faster, safer, consumes less memory, and I'm hoping will make it easier to develop some new features that I've wanted for a while, though the next bit of code that I'll need to write to make this work are a bit more complicated. Should still be a net win once it's done, though.

It looks like search engines found this forum post I wrote about using the Ocean Hued Clam set on Qiqi in Genshin Impact and are ranking it highly in relevant searches. https://www.hoyolab.com/article/1610218