Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The computer I use to do the Windows builds of Typica has gotten very bad at keeping track of the time and date while it's not in use. Probably a dead battery (I'd recognize it when I saw it, but it looks like I'd need to disassemble the thing pretty far). Obnoxious that all my certs are failing just because the computer thinks it's 2011 (thus before the validity period).

(I teach enough to get a 100% discount for that event, but I still need to get myself there)

My instructor discount code has come in so I'm now registered for this year's Coffee Roasters Guild Retreat. Still need to sort out transportation. The event is just over the border from Portland this year.

Birds were hanging out on the front porch this morning.

The experience on these longer/high res files should be better once I upgrade the instance to beta 9.

Last night's uploads are still going through the initial transcoding. The 3rd one is probably almost done, the 4th one will go a lot faster, and then the server will move on to making the lower resolution versions.

watch ls -l

Turned off the CPU utilization alert for that server. Using all the CPU is normal and desired for a bunch of video transcodes.

Tonight I'll find out how well my PeerTube instance handles 4K videos. So far (*shock*) the transcodes take longer. Moving another 4 videos over and created a couple new channels as a way to keep things thematically organized.

I'm going to run things through some more testing, but I think I'm just about finished with the changes that I'd like to get into Typica 1.9.1 so most of the work that's left to do is updating some things on the web site, updating documentation, and the like.

Another requested feature that doesn't require translation work: if remaining green coffee when entering batch data runs negative, the row turns red (either for initial quantity or after entering weight). This doesn't prevent you from roasting that batch, but it does provide an extra visual clue that maybe you should look at this a little closer.

@mario_champignon The way I did it required changes on the C++ side of things so you can't just grab an updated config file without rebuilding from source but disallowing negative quantities for green coffee in the new batch window is all set for the 1.9.1 release.

Scripted a quick video showing one of the new features pending for Typica 1.9.1 because while there will be a good explanation in the release notes and updated documentation, some people prefer to see a demo video.

I might be able to shoot that on Monday but I won't release the video until Typica 1.9.1 is available for download. There are still some changes I want to see if I can get in.

It's her chair now.

There's also a bug fix related to channel setting initialization for Unsupported Serial Device, but I might be the only person who ever uses that (it's handy for testing when you don't have real hardware since you can use it to easily whip up a device simulator).

The implicit limit is something like 2^30 characters (minus a few because you wouldn't put in only a batch for the annotation) but that encodes such a ridiculously huge number of batches that I doubt there have been that many batches roasted on all Typica installations globally combined. If you come anywhere near that limit, you seriously need to install your OS updates and restart.

The batch letters also expand if you're doing enough batches, so after Z you get AA through AZ, BA through BZ, and so on to ZZ incrementing to AAA. No explicit limit on how long that can get.

Added some improvements to counting buttons for the next Typica release.

Previously you needed to reset the count between batches and if you were doing several product development progressive roast batches and wanted the annotations to change between batches you had to set those manually.

Now you can set your annotation to something like %A-%1 and the %1 will, as usual, increment every time you press the button (but auto-reset at the end of the batch) and %A will increment between batches A, B

Today seems to be the day that I get domain name search engine registration scam spam from everybody running one of those scams. Pro tip: just post a link to your domain anywhere. The search engines will find it on their own just fine.