Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Today's code is not working at all and I'm not seeing the problem. I think I need to rethink the approach.

I think my a key might be wearing out. That's going to be obnoxious.

I've been making a lot of typos (missed letters, repeated letters, out of order letters) the past couple days. Wondering if it's my fingers or if it's the laptop keyboard.

Minor UI tweak for the next release of Typica checked in. Certain combo boxes on some platforms were being drawn with a uselessly small width if there wasn't any prior data entry. Now those should all have a usable width.

Design on the new purchase interface in Typica is a lot different from the old one. There are a few things that I'm trying to do here:

1. Make at least the most common use case fully and easily operable through the keyboard (make data entry faster for experts).
2. Make it more obvious what's required and what's optional.
3. De-emphasize the optional stuff so if you're not using it you don't have to see it.
4. Add features.

I might not do everything that I want in #4 before the next release.

The roasting plan for the coffee I'm drinking now is in the latest episode of Coffee and Code. It's not a plan that anybody is going to tell you is a good starting point for how to roast a coffee, but it's the right way to roast this particular coffee.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/e41dd13a-3071-4bc4-9b2c-b2cd76f18499

Quality time with the cat

I'm hoping that I can find an art class to use the mugs that arrived broken. There's a mosaic class that might be able to use them after smashing them up even more.

That AST license that I was grandfathered into came with an individual SCA membership which just expired. Given the mismanagement of the CSP that I've complained about previously it makes absolutely no sense to renew that. I was sent a survey when the renewal deadline passed and I used it to once again raise my complaints about structural disincentives to doing the work that adds value for membership. I fully expect association leadership to continue sticking their head in the sand on this.

An extra 54 cents showed up in one of my accounts today and I can't find any record of where that came from.

Time for belly rubs

I get the thick pizza so it's still hot when I get home.

I have food at home but I kind of don't want to cook tonight. Maybe I'll order a pizza instead.

The down side of getting mentioned in the press is that there are companies that turn press mentions into plaques and they refuse to believe that I have absolutely no interest in purchasing their product.

Just got a bunch of copies of the magazine that featured my shop in the latest issue.

Architecturally it's an eldritch horror, but it has its advantages.

Most of Typica's features are implemented through its scripting system, which means that a lot of the time new features can be added or bugs can be fixed without needing to recompile the program. It lets me get fixes out to people who report issues faster, but sometimes what I want to do requires changes to core code/extending the scripting system.

Warning: the new purchase interface that I'm working on WILL NOT work with the current release build of Typica so don't just go grabbing the config files from the development branch and expect things to work without recompiling the core.

Working on the green coffee purchase interface for the next release of Typica. The existing one kind of sucks so I'd like to get something better put out.