Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Presumably there's something within Qt causing the button to lose that visual indication which isn't getting undone, leading me to think it's a Qt bug, but for my program at least the workaround is tiny and not worth trying to figure out a patch. Problem observed on Linux/X11 in Qt 6.10.

The solution is to add a changeEvent override which calls update() on an ActivationChange event.

For that last problem, I have a set of buttons that I use to note changes in machine controls where I don't have a sensor to detect that automatically. The way I use this is I tab/backtab to the next control I intend to change in advance and then it's very easy for me to hit the spacebar with one hand while making the control change with the other so that's logged accurately enough. The problem comes if I temporarily switch to another window. This causes the button to lose visual distinction.

Spent a little more time on Typica before heading into the shop this morning. Removed 4 things from my list of desired changes. 3 were things that I knew would be easy once I had the code open in front of me. The 4th is arguably a bug in Qt and I wasn't sure what the right thing to do there was, but the easiest thing I could think of to try did resolve the issue.

Disappointing grocery run today. The good thing is I spent about a third of what I was expecting. The bad thing is that's because so much of what I planned to get was out of stock. Ended up stocking up on ramen. They had ramen.

Got some new features working today. The code is a bit of a mess so I'll want to clean that up, but it's working so that's something.

The first thing is average rate of change through the range. Very easy calculation. The other thing that I'm thinking is percent breakdowns which nobody should be doing with roasting data, but I've had some thoughts on how to make those metrics less trash so I'll implement a couple variations on that and see what users think about it.

Started adding some new features that I've been thinking about lately. I'd previously combined the batch timer display with some other secondary displays and changed the range timers to something with more information density. Now I'm thinking that multi-range display could sensibly be extended to include various other kinds of batch statistics where it's useful to show that separately for different parts of the roast. The easiest way to add that looks kind of ugly, but I'll make it work first.

Finally got the new coffees up for sale on the web site. I still need to update the wholesale list and get a sample out to a company that expressed interest in one of the new arrivals before I had it.

I kind of miss when there was a shop across the street that offered sewing lessons. We'd get people bringing their sewing machines into the shop to do their homework at the last minute before class.

Someone brought their mechanical typewriter to the shop today. It's been a while since I've heard that sound.

It would be nice if the parking cops would knock it off with the flashing lights when people could reasonably be trying to sleep. Of course, better still would be scrapping the idiotic ordinance they're currently abusing in a fundraising scam. I complained at politicians when I saw them pulling this nonsense last year.