Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tried to get takeout for dinner but the place I went had lots of staff not making food and not taking orders so I left. I'll make better food myself anyway.

Aside from some typos it's a nice piece and you don't often see articles that touch on all of: coffee roasting, software development, and international consulting.

The person who asked to interview me for his YouTube channel put up a blog post with some of the pre-interview conversation. I'd've shared a link here sooner, but he hasn't told me this is up yet. http://blog.oilslickcoffee.com/2018/08/14/in-the-sightglass-neal-wilson/

I've mostly been ignoring YouTube stats lately but just happened to catch this oddity that seems to be happening now. The video is from 2012 so I don't know what the new interest there is. For comparison, that usually gets about 60 views per day.

They could deliver Wednesday or Friday and since I'll be out of the state on Friday I decided the earlier day was better.

I'm getting a new sofa delivered Wednesday. I've been using one that came with the house that started disintegrating around the same time the cat moved in and it's in pretty bad shape.

I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong about this but I feel like maybe the play button should be a little more obvious on a program for playing music.

Moved my keys over to the new computer. Now I can log in to all my servers.

Good: Media Controls on my lock screen, media controls on my phone's lock screen through KDE Connect, plays my music, adding stuff to playlists is super easy.

Bad: Some stuff is super small on my screen. After finding the tiny player controls I still can't visually tell which is the play button (HiDPI)

Ugly: Smart playlist->all tracks creates a playlist with all tracks in apparently random order. Too smart for me.

Meh: Lots of features that I personally have no interest in using.

This arrived in the mail today.

Why do cats like to stretch out at the top of staircases when the lights are off?

I'm reminded of the last time I flew out of London. As I approached the security area and was about to go in, a guy called me over, asked if I was an American, and when I told him I was he just waved me through. No scans, no metal detector, no search, just walk right through. I'd rather see airport security move back in that direction.

(one of these days I'll probably just budget some time to get myself set up with Global Entry since that comes with TSA Pre✅ which generally allows a bypass of the worst aspects of airport security theater)

I should pick up an HDMI or DisplayPort to VGA adapter. Sometimes the places I'm asked to teach don't have any other options and getting a straight answer about what to expect (so I can make sure I bring the right computer/cable/adapter) can be like pulling teeth. My usual approach is to just bring enough stuff that no matter what I run into I'll have something that plugs into it, but moving multiple laptops through airport security keeps getting harder and I'd like to be able to stop doing that

Just tried replying to a text message from the computer through KDE connect. That wasn't implemented last time I messed around with this, but now it works. I never learned to properly thumb type so typing replies on a real keyboard will be a lot easier for me.

Added another tracked issue with Typica on Linux HiDPI screens. Part of the reason for picking that screen on the new machine was seeing if there are problems (yes, but they're all relatively minor) so I can fix those issues. Those will be good things to work on for 1.9.2.

Pulsing insertion point, waiting for input, nice colors.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/fd4c920d-c626-4664-8785-7a13093a5871

My desktop icons seem to have glitched.

Got Typica built on the new machine. The reports are sub-optimal on a HiDPI screen on Linux (not an issue with retina displays on Mac, no clue if there's an issue on Windows) but still readable. Might be a really easy fix. Will have to look into that later.

Cat is shedding a lot tonight.