Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Oh look, it's a new chapter of Visionary Fairies in Shrine https://mangadex.org/chapter/389394/1

The cat is extra talkative tonight.

Now I know that it takes >24 hours for my server to do a full set of transcoding jobs on an hour of 4K video. I also know that a full res version shows up just fine, though the browser on my computer can struggle to handle that (maybe hit the download button and use a real video player if you must go full screen 4K). If I don't upload more stuff (except I probably will) my job queue should empty out some time tomorrow.

Added a "historical" channel for still relevant public domain stuff because why not. Using the support section for the first video queued up for that to point to where you can donate to The Internet Archive. It's still behind a few other videos (though what I uploaded does seem to stream fine without its initial transcode so maybe I'll hit the publish button early).

Initial transcoding jobs from the 4 videos uploaded last night are finally finished. Now it's working on the smaller resolution versions. This would probably go a lot faster if I had >1 core provisioned, but I don't.

Windows build of Typica on current development branch ended up with an .exe file 74KB smaller than the 1.9.0 release. Now <2MB. It's always nice when you can get more features in a smaller size without really trying.

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.