Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Multiple companies have recently asked me about doing new things around Typica, with each wanting a focus on one particular area that existing software (in general, not just Typica) fails at, but they all want to own the finished thing.

If I could get them to coordinate and be on board with sharing they'd all get something a lot nicer, but it's a challenge to convince the people with the money that cooperation is a thing you can do to get something better.

Bought another ~800 pounds of #coffee. Found a really nice (expensive, but worth it) Ethiopian coffee that I'll enjoy roasting.

re: last boost, this instance was affected but was promptly patched after private disclosure. No user data was compromised.

(or perhaps other programs just aren't as useful?)

I keep seeing photos of coffee roasting areas in which there's a computer set up for monitoring the roasts but it's positioned such that it's impossible to look at that and the coffee at the same time. I get that this can be challenging, but in most of these there seems to be plenty of space to set this up properly. Interestingly, none of these workspace abominations have Typica on screen, so I assume everybody using that is smart enough to set up a usable work environment.

It would be a big hit on Ferenginar.

Overall the lists of exempt v. taxable categories looks like it was created by dice rolling and now I kind of want there to be some kind of D&D-like game of "accounting adventures" in which players do things like roll for tax evasion.

Oh, and "school art supplies" are called out as still taxable. Art programs struggle enough without this kind of discrimination in the tax code.

Apparently for the purposes of that sales tax holiday, helmets are not considered clothing but lab coats are.

In Gensokyo Defenders, Sunny Milk's hair style and the camera angle often make it kind of look like she's wearing a cowboy hat. #touhou

Wisconsin sales tax holiday at the start of August. Thankfully, I don't sell anything it applies to so I won't have to reprogram the registers and then do it again a few days later. https://www.revenue.wi.gov/Pages/Individuals/SalesTaxHoliday.aspx

Thought of a good name while I was buying cat food but the domain was already taken by a squatter and I refuse to reward that kind of behavior.

Daily #cat visit.

Wish I had better quality copies of some of these images.

If you need to send an email out to lots of people who don't need to talk to each other about that, please consider using the bcc field. That's what it's for.

If you receive an email that was sent to lots of people separately listed in the to field, please consider carefully if you really need to reply to all of them or if it's fine to just reply to the original sender (odds are really good reply all is the wrong choice).

I need to name a thing.

The port adapter connected to my computer right now runs very hot. I suppose I should keep that in mind in case I find myself in need of a left hand warmer and there isn't a cat available to do the job.

as opposed to normal email that doesn't have any computers involved at all.