Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Working a bar shift today. I don't do that nearly often enough.

Rendering the new vlog episode. No live cats this time around but I'm wearing a glow in the dark cat shirt and drinking from another cat mug.

Hacker cat listens to your data.

The fun thing about ECMAscript is the language spec says the host environment can inject whatever it wants into the root context so if you have control over the engine and the default stuff isn't quite cutting it for your application, you write what you need in a more suitable language and you can still use script to hook the pieces together.

Cat wants to sit on the hard drive. It has a calming vibration and subtle warms.

Amazing junk mail.

cat face

Shop will be closed tomorrow and Monday for Labor Day.

Of course, it's a free software project so in the unlikely event (it hasn't happened in the >decade it's been available) that someone wants to work on something else, I will, of course, gladly accept quality patches (and maybe even not so quality patches that look like I can fix them up without too much hassle).

Typica 1.9.1 is now officially released. There's already work toward 1.9.2 in the development branch on https://code.typica.us/neal/Typica/src/branch/development

Priorities for 1.9.2 include changes that make it easier to recover from data entry errors without having to know SQL, improving the appearance of Typica on Linux in the presence of HiDPI screens and non-default themes, and improvements related to the use of Modbus RTU based control systems.

I'd very much like to have that out before the end of the year.

The motor that arrived is rated at 1 regular horse power.

box of motor arrived quickly. won't do much good until the vfd also arrives.

Time for belly rubs. #CatsOfMastodon

New Typica builds are available for download, but only if you can guess the address (not hard). Will try to get the links changed over after work so people have a better chance of finding those.

A new motor is on the way. I want to see about improving motor control capabilities in Typica and I'll have more confidence in code changes if I have real hardware to test against. Basic control options already exist, but they're very generic and I haven't heard much feedback about how practical those really are.

Note: I'm not recommending that anybody mod their equipment unless they really know what they're doing, but most roaster makers will customize if you know what to ask for.

It took a few years and a few more people to convince me and I ended up at the bottom of what might have been the largest ballot the guild has ever run with a pretty large group of people I would have liked to work with. Given that my voice is still heard on the education committee I don't feel at all bad about losing that election. I still get to do the work I think is important and fewer people try to tell me what I'm doing wrong.

One of the people interviewed was actually the first person to suggest that I should run for a position on the RGEC.

Skimmed through the article that I was interviewed for in the latest Roast. I still don't have physical copies, but I have the code to access the digital version. It's a nice piece. I know a substantial fraction of the other people who were interviewed for that and the ones I don't know, I've enjoyed their coffee.