Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Video is done. Fedi gets it first. https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/1e770e6f-8bb9-4936-969f-1bc739c1e139

Rendering a short demo video for yesterday's release of Typica. It's just me roasting a batch of coffee (screen recording of the software as I'm doing that) and talking about the program, some cuts because the batch took longer to roast than I wanted to talk. Screen recording made with QuickTime Player, audio recording in Audacity, video assembly in Kdenlive, no AI.

And now the source code is also available for those who want to build this on other platforms. Maybe tomorrow I might be able to assemble a little demo video showing off the shiny new features. I did a screen recording of setting that up and roasting a batch of coffee with it last night so I'd just need a voice over and chopping that up a bit.

Typica 2.0alpha1 Windows build has been tested and is ready to go online as soon as I update the site. I needed to track down more libraries to include than I did on the Mac but the total size of the download is just a bit over half the size. That should be going up any minute now.

Bathroom lights stopped working last night. Fortunately I live alone and can just put on a hall light and leave the door open. I'm surprised that the bulbs that were there were still old fashioned incandescent. They've now been replaced with LED bulbs, apparently skipping over the CFL era.

Typica 2.0alpha1 for macOS is now available to download. Windows build, source code, and documentation to follow. I don't recommend switching to this yet, but anybody who is curious about some of the newer features I've been using lately is welcome to check it out.

This game has put me on two trains so far and I haven't had the option to suplex either of them.

Earlier today I saw a red and white truck that was completely covered with Christmas tree lights stuck on with blue tape getting loaded up with a very pink might have been a vending machine that I never really understood why it was in the space it was in.

Someone suggested that we should try to get a mayoral proclamation in honor of my shop still being around for 35 years, but we already got one of those shortly before my father passed away so I think maybe it's too soon for another one. 40 or 50 years seem like a better time to go for that anyway.

Spent some time working out better default sizing for the various parts of the roasting window. I expect that most people will still want to customize all of this, but now a lot of people probably won't feel like they absolutely have to in order to make this nice to use (the old behavior for the 2.0alpha1 would have been bad for everybody). Better first impression.

I briefly had 3rd place on the newly added Judge Dredd pinball table in Pinball FX, which I think is not bad considering that I've only played the real table a few plays one day a few decades ago (nobody locally had it but I happened on one during a vacation trip).

Did one more issue fix for a thing that worked fine on Linux but behaved obnoxiously on Mac (easy 1 line each in 2 files fix, I've seen this before so I knew exactly what to check) so I'm going to try to put out a Typica 2.0 alpha 1 build hopefully later tonight after work and dinner and then I'd also like to put together some documentation going over setup and whatnot, but that's probably not going to be finished tonight.

I didn't do anything to fix the problem that I ran into last week but this week I can't replicate the issue so that's both a relief and an annoyance. I'll test it out with some other hardware on Sunday.

I've decided on what this year's Holiday Blend is going to be (just in time for Halloween). It comes across as a smooth, sweet dark roast with a fruity aroma that's great as a dessert coffee. It uses coffees from Guatemala (Coban), Sulawesi, Ethiopia (Guji), and El Salvador (an anaerobic natural pacamara).

Dropped a keyboard on my toe. It hurt. A lot. (I'm fine)

Needed to go back home shortly after getting to work because putting new batteries in the tea scale didn't fix it and I wasn't going to try sharing one scale between tea and cupping. Fortunately, I own entirely too many nice gram scales and can just dash back home and bring one in.

I'm old enough to remember when grade 3 would always get bumped down to grade 4 for tax evasion purposes.

5 new coffees: a Guatemala Coban, an anaerobic natural pacamara from El Salvador, a decaf Brazil which I hope I can switch to for decaf French Roast, a regular Brazil that I want the same thing out of, and a grade 3 Ethiopia Guji.

Finished moving in the coffee delivery. Going to have a short rest and then get on with figuring out how I want to roast those.

So that Mac build that I put together the other day is in a bit of an odd spot. On the machine I built it on everything works as expected. On a different machine that has nothing relevant installed it half works where some of the functionality provided by one my dependencies works (so the library is getting loaded and symbols resolved) and other functionality is not working at all so clearly I need to get to the bottom of that before letting other people use this.