Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Slowly but steadily chipping away at the work needed for the next release of CRUCS.

Unrelated, I got an email and a phone call from one of my candy suppliers letting me know that they think they put some chocolate in the wrong kind of wrapper and want me to destroy one item when it arrives with my latest order. None of my staff has the food allergies they're rightly concerned about so making them all aware of the issue and letting them eat it if they want any is probably how that's getting destroyed (rather than completely waste otherwise perfectly good chocolate).

The other half of my cookie order has now been delivered.

Half of my girl scout cookie order got delivered. Glad I checked it so they can go get the other half.

Backyard had been taken over by at least 26 birds.

The cat thinks I should give the cat belly rubs instead of eating dinner.

I've assembled some neat example data to demo the CRUCS feature set I'm working on. That might end up being more educational than anybody expects as I'll be giving practical advice on a topic that I haven't actually seen addressed any deeper than a handwave.

Who is Geoffrey and why does he own so many tubes?

@Taweret Maybe just don't provoke the kaiju in the first place?

Data center said there wouldn't be down time for emergency maintenance. There was down time.

Today's spam has a dubious sales pitch to "Secure Your Network With Windows Server 2019" and buying a license of a 5 year old Microsoft product from some shady seller is not something that comes to mind as a best security practice.

Spent some more time on series comparisons for the next release of CRUCS. The part of the range analysis that gets displayed as text in a table is done, though I'll want to go through and come up with some nicer styling for that, but the next thing to work on is a graphical representation. I'm not going to work on that anymore tonight.

Found the SD card removal tool for my phone and moved a bunch of stuff off that to free up more space. It might be getting to about time to upgrade the phone.

The cat was very well behaved during today's furnace install.

House has heat again and a fancy new thermostat which I have so far declined to allow Internet access. Down side, the old thermostat was a very simple mostly mechanical thing that never had any problems (this was used for at least 2 furnaces and the one that just got replaced was 26 years old) while I have less confidence in the longevity of anything that even could connect to the Internet. Up side, I can see what it thinks the temperature is from a couple rooms over.

Roasted the last of my supply of coffee from El Salvador. Updated the web site to mark that as unavailable. Sketched out some ideas for the feature set I'm currently working on in CRUCS.

The lack of a working furnace isn't going to stop me from eating ice cream. It was buy one get one.

Reworking one of my coffee blends. The first attempt presented as way too dark in the cup. The 2nd attempt actually has a darker average color but presents as a lighter roast in the cup and is a good match to the previous recipe. Sometimes blending is strange like that.

One of the challenges in adding features to CRUCS is just figuring out where the necessary controls should go and how they should be labeled. I'm trying my best, but I think it'll probably be useful to throw together a series of video tutorials showing step by step how to do some of the stuff that you can do with this.

https://crucs.net/

Typica, at least, provides limited access to this kind of analysis live at the roaster, which is extremely nice to have and offers a solid boost to batch to batch consistency (more for less experienced roasters, less for more experienced roasters, but even for the more experienced it lowers the stress and still makes things easier). But the less restricted form is still incredibly useful in QC after roasting and everything I've seen out there is just plain less powerful and harder to use.