Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

There's a thing that I'm doing at the shop right now just because there are enough coffees that I usually have that I can't get right now and I needed something else that could be a dark component in blends. It's half Brazil, half Rwanda roasted together in the same batch and taken quite dark. Turns out just that as espresso is very nice if you like dark roast espresso blends so that's what I'll be selling at least until some of the ingredients I'd normally use become available again.

Email subject: "Solve your {terrible programming thing that I would never use} vs {other terrible programming thing that I would have serious reservations about using} debate". I think I'll continue to go with neither, thanks.

Got a call from my sister this morning because she couldn't get her car to start in the grocery store parking lot. The symptoms sounded suspicious to me so I offered to drive over. Had just pulled into a parking spot and was about to go looking for her when a call came in letting me know that her car started, so apparently the fix was me getting within about 100 feet of the vehicle. It hasn't happened with a car before but that seems to happen with me and technology a lot.

It's been about 25 years since I did anything in Tcl, but it looks like everything I want for that is already installed on this computer so yeah, I guess that's my plan for after dinner. Slam out at least a start for one of the things I want and look up what I need for that as I go. (I probably have a book I can dig out)

(I don't expect any of these things to be particularly useful to others and am unlikely to share them)

Considering relearning enough of Tcl for some simple tools that I'd like to have but don't really want to bother with doing it in C++ and also would like something nicer to iterate on than just a shell script. There are a few small things I want that I think this would be a good fit.

There's a lot of rain. Also the cat is demanding cuddles.

Lined up another teaching gig for a few days next month.

The cat has been lured to my side with the smell of mint ice cream.

@fribbledom Imagine if they just made the camera that thick all the way down. Why, they'd have room for... user replaceable batteries? Headphone jacks?

The cat is being kind of blobby.

Wearing my raycats baseball shirt today. It glows in the dark, much like the cats who are supposed to warn our distant post-apocalyptic descendants about leaking nuclear waste that they should run away from.

I also have a bit of roasted coffee from a pre-ship sample of my next Ethiopian coffee. As a press the fragrance is amazing. There's a mild bergamot note that goes well with the fruit and floral notes in the flavor. Looking forward to getting the arrival sample.

Finally getting around to tasting the other gift coffee. This is also a little lighter than I personally would take the coffee, but it's quite nice. A bit more intensity of flavor than the other one, a bit lacking in body, but I certainly wouldn't complain about this being served to me in a shop.

I have 28GB of RAM free. What's using 300MB of swap?

@MmeLibertine No problem. Hope you enjoy it.

People on hoyolab are freaking out about my old pyro Qiqi again.

@MmeLibertine In case you didn't see the other reply, it's just vanilla syrup and mulling spices in the milk before steaming. I've been making them since before pumpkin spice was a thing. https://social.typica.us/@neal/108958361400215482

@gnomon top with whipped cream.