Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Today's random Chinese component spam is for "illuminated magnetic card reader" because they hope I make casino games that read loyalty cards. Still not as good as the one that was certain I was in the market for life size animatronic dinosaurs.

Cat wants to play video games but all she knows how to do is bash her head against the controller.

So the idea with the puzzle exchange is you take some puzzles, do them at home, bring them back when you're done, take some more puzzles if you want. Instead there have been some people who just leave giant bags packed with puzzles on the floor in front of the shelf, and that's kind of obnoxious.

Today's code is all about making stuff that works robust against the absurd.

The 25 pounds of cinnamon I ordered recently has shipped. Also some coffee samples that I didn't ask for that I have no idea what they are, but sure I'll run those through the lab roaster and see what I think.

Internet troll: "I could mitigate the issue that I'm raising, but I choose not to in order to shit on an idea without offering anything useful myself"

Internal me: "why are you even inserting yourself in this conversation?"

*rolls eyes*

If enough donations come in that I can afford to take a few months mostly away from the shop to focus on Typica development, most of the work that needs to get done could be done from home and the cat would be happy to sit next to me while I work on that. https://typica.us/

YTD financial support is currently $200, which more than covers keeping the web site up for the year, but not much else.

PeerTube still doesn't like videos taken on my phone unless I do some pre-processing locally (the server side transcoding job fails) so you'll all just have to live without seeing a brief clip of my cat trying to convince me to stay home and play with the cat this morning.

supertuxkart 1.0 runs very nicely on my laptop (though it takes a while to get through the screen size settings to something that doesn't look tiny). Unfortunately the buttons it says I should press for things don't always match up with my controller. For example, the tutorial says Y for nitro boost but it's really LB.

Some chocolate eggs didn't sell. I'm eating them instead of selling at a discount.

Cat up in my face

The cat is especially talkative today. Lots of excitement outside that she needs to tell me about.

Reason to not trust github: they call their mascot octocat even though it only has 5 tentacles.

My post-op instructions say I can eat solid food again, but I own soup so I guess I'm eating soup. Hopefully the driveway is no longer blocked when I get home as I've been invited out for food tomorrow and it would be nice to not need to get someone to pick me up for that.

That's it for the gift coffee so now I'll be going back to drinking stuff roasted at my own shop.

Bonus: their math seems to be wrong. DTR ranges from 17.06-21.74% (none at 20%) if I'm reading the timing charts right. Converted ranges to seconds within the particular range for ease of comparison and a total for those who want to check my math.