Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tested the next lot of Guatemalan coffee and I'm thinking of putting 3 different roasts of that on the shelf. Need to do test batches and see how they taste filtered, but if they're all good this will double as some market research to see if I have customers for something lighter from the Americas.

It looks like the new Fresh Cup Magazine is out. I don't have a copy and the digital version runs a month behind so I don't know what, if anything, got used, but their art director asked me for some photos for an article someone else wrote that ran in that issue.

And of course nobody has a way to contact anybody to let someone know that someone is lying and maybe they should look into that.

So that Sunday package delivery estimate, now I have a thing claiming, "yeah, we totally tried to deliver at noon but the business was closed." No, you didn't because no it wasn't. I was there.

Got my first viewer question for the new vlog (from a viewer in Colombia) so next month I'll be talking about airflow and how hot your coffee roaster should be when you start a batch.

This is a topic that I haven't talked about much because airflow isn't something that most roasters have a lot of control over (this has been changing over the past several years) and there's stuff in Typica that makes precision in the pre-heat less important on a lot of machines.

Somehow screwed up certificate auto-renewal on https://code.typica.us

Finally got around to fixing that (I still had another 12 days).

Happy Cirno Day!

I think I'm out of dinner-like food again. Choices: take out, grocery shopping, breakfast for dinner.

This reminds me: my father used to work as a nurse in neonatal intensive care and someone once asked him how to spell Chlamydia because she heard the word and thought it would be a pretty name for her daughter and he had to talk her out of that.

Don't name your kid Accounting.

Who falls for this?

One report should be fixed and the wider issue is documented in the tracker with a link to the example fix. Still need to go through all the other reports and make sure those either get similar fixes or that they don't need them.

On the plus side, this is something that can be fixed without touching core code (no recompile needed, just replace some files). On the minus side, I have to touch all the reports and generate new test cases.

New bug report, prevents data from displaying in reports, potentially an entire class of bugs that I need new test cases to make sure I'm fixing this everywhere instead of just in the one minor case that was reported.

Customers were confused about a product so I took some time to talk with them about that, explain the differences with other products, and I'm a little surprised that they bought it because I also spent a lot of time on what's wrong with it and how there are faster/easier/better ways to do the alternative uses they were thinking of.

It's a case of, for the price I'm selling it, it's fine for the niche it's designed for, but you may already own other things that work better.

If you have trouble reading it, the shirt that I'm wearing in that has an upside down bat on it with text repeated in the background, "more betterer more gorgeouser more excellenter".

The interview video I mentioned earlier has been published now. Here's a link if you want to watch that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH-qhMQ6KhE

Got an email letting me know the VFD I ordered will be delivered on Sunday. Nobody delivers stuff on Sunday so that seems unlikely.

The person who interviewed me at retreat finished editing and uploading that. I'll post a link to that later once it's publicly available.

The video description links to my fediverse profile so if anybody goes there soon and scrolls down a little bit they'll see this boosted note: https://octodon.social/@Taweret/100680778636402360

The cat likes to hang out on the edge of surfaces, but she also likes to roll. This isn't always a good combination.

Money arrived in the mail from my latest teaching gig. It's not much, but I'll take it.

lol Mastodon in VR