Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Still no Internet. I've talked to 4 people on the phone, one person on an online chat, and one person in a store, and all of them have told me that what happened shouldn't have happened and that they can't fix it, or that they can't do what the previous person said they'd do. I've used up the high speed portion of phone Internet tethering. The low speed version still works well enough for gaming, but not well enough for streaming.

This morning I found a box with equipment for the person who mistakenly signed up for Internet at my house causing my account to get disactivated so now I know who the ISP needs to call to let them know they don't live at my house.

Tonight is a good night for Tetris.

Got home from work to discover that my Internet service had been disactivated. Three customer service people all thought this was very strange but couldn't just turn it back on so for tonight I'm using phone tethered Internet (with double the gaming ping) and I'll be picking up new hardware and a lower price after work tomorrow.

fixed

Fixed a couple bugs. One was legitimately an error in my code, but the other one is obnoxious. There's a condition where the code should be a no-op and if I actually do nothing, an unrelated thing doesn't happen, but if I do the thing that shouldn't have any effect, it forces the other thing to notice it has work to do. That still leaves one bug in the part that I'm working on, but I have a pretty good idea of where that has to be so it shouldn't take too long to track that down.

@gnomon @juliank Indeed. My professional opinion is that if you enjoy what you get at the end, you did it right.

@gnomon @juliank Right, the amount of coffee is the thing that really sticks out here. For the amount of water initially used there, 19 grams gets you closest to general guidance. It's always better to err on the side of too much coffee as you can always water it down after the brewing is finished so maybe try up-dosing until it stops getting better.

New hardware update. The stuff that should work with code I've already written has shipped. The stuff that I need to write new code to use it is backordered for... about 6 weeks.

The house next to mine has had a broken window for years. This morning there was a cat sticking its head out of the window watching me leave for work. I don't know if this is a case of someone with a cat moved into the place or if this is a cat like mine who just decided to move in through the broken window.

@deshipu@mastodon.technology

Ordered an assortment of new data logging hardware to try out. Some is stuff my code should already work with and other I'll need to write new code. One goes up to 1kS/s which is complete overkill for coffee roasting but it'll be nice to know that my code can ingest that.

@gnomon You probably don't want to pay and wait for postage from Wisconsin and these might not be what you want anyway, but I have a few at MSRP in stock if you can't get it fixed. Bodum Bistro 1L in shiny or black for $49.99, an electric adjustable temperature Oxo Brew 1L at $99.99.

It's nice when things work.

Some constants are more constant than others.

Spent some time fleshing out a new data model for externally sourced data in Typica 2. For the 1.x versions all of that was coming from a PostgreSQL database, but Typica 2 is adding more options (one similar and one completely different) such that it makes sense to make more of the code oblivious to where its data came from.

Today I used all of my cupping bowls. Some more than once.

@yomimono I'm not using the webhooks at all.

@yomimono In my case I was using the Stripe API for payment processing which has excellent documentation (the curl examples are reasonably easy to translate to whatever you want to use for that). The coffee shop additionally uses Shippo for postage rate quotes and label generation. Otherwise, my guiding principle was to keep things pretty much as dumb as possible (but no dumber) and log everything in case I messed it up. Happy to chat if you have questions.

I tried making a fun little post elsewhere but one of the replies that came back was, "Suddenly I feel so incompetent." That makes me sad.