Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I tried to buy tonic for my gin but the grocery store didn't have any.

Initial fixes are in. Alignment bug fixed, though I think I wrote it the way I did because doing the right thing didn't work on some platforms so I need to test that. Grid lines now pick up the same color as the the text. Unfortunately, if the theme is changed while the program is running, the background gets updated but none of the content changes so I need to detect and handle that event.

Also tempted to go all in on respecting theme colors because the parts of Typica that do handle that properly look cool.

I'm thinking that as long as I'm touching this code anyway it might be worthwhile to see about adding more features that were originally planned to be on hold until 2.0.

This is how Typica currently mis-displays the graph on this machine. It's picking up the dark background and light text from the system theme, showing the text about twice as large as it should be and for temperatures mis-aligned. The lines remain black.

I should see about hooking my MIDI stuff up to the new computer, especially some of the smaller gear and see if I can figure that out.

The new video took a minor eternity to finish all the transcoding jobs on PeerTube (about 16 hours). That's not on PeerTube, that's on my using a single core VM and using an effect that's hard to optimize for.

If anybody wants to hear me talk about teaching roasting classes, rant about bad laptop designs, and the stuff that I'm working on fixing next in Typica, here you go: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/5758e6e0-cc6c-4841-b097-56acb5120573

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.