Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Went looking for a crash condition that I noticed last night, this time with a debugger attached. The crash was triggered a couple lines earlier than I was expecting (thinking about it a little more I do understand why), but the fix is the same regardless so that's solved.

One of my wholesale customers expressed interest in one of the coffees delivered today so I'll use dropping a sample off as an excuse to check out their place now that they're open.

The new paper is pretty nice, thick, oddly textured. One of my employees is going to take it home and use it as weird gift wrap.

Coffee has arrived. The paper used to separate organic certified coffee from not certified coffee has changed. This is something that really doesn't matter to me because the legislation around organic labeling has for a long time been written purely for regulatory capture by big food companies against the smaller businesses that built the market for organic products and our response to that was to keep buying organic coffees when they're good but not sell them as such.

Today someone was very disappointed that a place calling itself "Wilson's Coffee & Tea" sells coffee instead of cell phones.

I don't have a delivery window, but it looks like I'm getting coffee tomorrow.

Had a weird issue when trying to move the latest code over to the machine at the coffee roaster. One symbol from a library the code uses failed to resolve. It's definitely not something new that got added since the library was installed on that machine, but the version present does seem to be about 4 years old and uninstalling the old library and installing the latest version and dev headers fixed the issue.

I had a hunch that the number was higher, but running the report I was surprised by how much higher the proportion of sales that aren't in store retail are (so wholesale, online, &c). Normally that's under 1%. Early pandemic dropped that closer to 0. So far this year it's at about 2.3% and it would be higher than usual even if it weren't for our most recent wholesale customer. Not bad considering that we put pretty much no effort into those segments.

Bought another 1600ish pounds of coffee. Mostly stuff that I haven't carried in a while.

Despite being well over 100 years old, it's only been held by 2 families including the carpenter who built it for himself so I already know a lot about how the house has changed in that time.

Got a letter at home from one of the non-profits my shop works with, which was very confusing, but it's because my house is old and part of their work is documenting old houses.

Finished testing, tuning, and integrating the last feature I wanted to add before moving a new build into production. While I was at it I also fixed a minor graphical glitch

It's official. I'm sending one of my employees off to an event to learn stuff and socialize with industry peers. There aren't other people in town with her job who don't work here so I think it'll be a good opportunity for her. The company is, of course, paying for that.

I still need some waiting for the glue to cure, but so far it looks like I won't be able to see the defect at all so that at least is a decent outcome.

One of my figure pre-orders arrived today. Sadly it arrived broken. The manufacturer made the slightly odd decision to ship it with the head assembled and attached to the body and somehow the bit that connects the head to the body snapped. The seller offered me either a return for refund or a partial refund if I wanted to try to repair it myself. Fortunately, the break was a good shape and location and the refund is more than enough for a bottle of the glue I used one drop of.

Perfectly timed pizza pick up. Neither I nor the pizza had any wait time.

Did a bunch of code changes around today's coffee roasting session. All little things where most of the functionality was already present and I just needed to hook things up to the UI. Also set my Mom's phone up to receive email since she'll want to have that capability on her next vacation for stuff she can't schedule before she's on the road. Sending doesn't work because I couldn't find the settings for using TLS for that on her device.

Just got a text message offering me shockingly little money to be a political shill. Reported as spam and blocked.

Sent info off to the accountant. It seems that for 2025, I received... $600 in support of my work developing free software. That's greatly appreciated, but at the same time not really much to work with.

Knocked a thing off my to do list, but it got dark so I'll have to turn on lights if I want to see other things on the list.