Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Here's the blog post where I write about the stuff that I did in Seattle. https://typica.us/events/2018/05/03/expo-2018-recap.html

81 pounds of tea on the way.

And now I have a 4th email today from FedEx about the package they lied about trying to deliver. No new information has been conveyed.

This coffee had all the defects except fungus and severe insect damage. After sorting those out the coffee is still ugly, but ugly is not a defect.

Given decent tasting results on not a great roast with the defects left in, I'm optimistic about this next batch and curious how this could have turned out with professional processing at a real mill instead of just spreading the coffee out over a cemetery.

That's an odd thing to see.

Should have looked at the other half of this before roasting it. Will pick out the defects before roasting the rest of this.

Apparently instead of 1 email from FedEx today I got 3. The first letting me know that they really meant it, delivering the package today. The 2nd lying about attempting to deliver it, and the third letting me know that they'll try again tomorrow. There's no way any reasonable delivery attempt would have failed.

The cat wants to "help".

red lights are not stop signs.

My latest video just passed 500 views. It's about how temperature measurements get from a sensor into a logging program and some of the stuff that can be done with that data.

Lots of people use settings that aren't optimal for their hardware and understanding what's going on under the hood can help people diagnose those issues and understand which of those can be fixed with a simple settings change and what sorts of things are better addressed with better hardware.

https://youtu.be/___jFPe5GSs

FedEx sends me an email every day about coffee samples.

Day 1: We're going to deliver this package, probably on given date.
Day 2: On second thought, make that given date+1.
Day 3: Yeah, we really mean it. Coffee samples getting delivered tomorrow.

I assume they'll also send me one tomorrow just in case I somehow forget that I'd literally just gotten the package.

If you could redesign the control panel on your coffee roaster, what would you change?

Should I raise the character limit for toots on this instance or is everybody fine with 500?

It's ice machine cleaning day.

If you can't remember the last time you cleaned your ice machine, it's time to clean your ice machine, too. You can use the reminders feature in Typica to put that on a schedule if you don't have another way of keeping track already.

Poorly maintained ice machines can be a vector for the spread of disease. Big problem in hospitals. Probably less likely in coffee shops, but why take that chance?

@vkess The graph code pending for v2 is really a lot better for this, having your likely use case already in mind and the ability to change colors/visibility of series on the fly.

@vkess Right now the colors on the graph are based entirely on the table column the data is in. It's an ugly hard coded thing in the graph code that loops over about a dozen colors. Enlarging the number of colors available would only require changing a couple lines of code. The harder part is behavior changes associated with having more than 2 roasts loaded. Those can all be done in a local config, but making sure things like profile translation work would be subtle.

Another takeaway from expo that I haven't posted yet: while I've never been a big fan of cold brew coffee (I prefer hot brewed iced coffee and I prefer hot brewed hot coffee even more), I have to admit that it can be pretty good if you add enough booze to it.

Cold brew isn't for drinking. It's for use as an ingredient in something else.

@NorthRiver For batch tag printing? It's one of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XKRN726/ref=as_at/?imprToken=R-rOvElZl2O0mlTIB5lmUw&slotNum=0&ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B06XKRN726&linkCode=w61&tag=typica01a-20&linkId=245085e3235724e0f6d601df8f4572fb

Working lungs would be nice.

For some reason Amazon thinks that I want to buy a 4 pack of 10 bit ADC ICs. I can't think of why I would buy that.

Odds are good whatever µC I'd be plugging that into already has an ADC at about that resolution. If I needed to break out to an external chip for that I'd probably want something more like 24 bits (and then count on not using all of those bits because my circuit design skills aren't that great).