Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Found the tape my sister was looking for. It wasn't anywhere reasonable and I wasn't looking for it, but as long as I happened to see it I can put that somewhere she'll see it.

There's also a lab that might want to give out copies with their mid/high level classes because they're looking for a good book for those people and it doesn't exist. This is part of why I decided I needed to write a book; people kept asking me for reading recommendations and the existing literature wasn't what they needed next. There's a big gap between intro roasting books and hard core chemistry and physics with precious little to connect those in a practical way.

I'm going to have to write some kind of preface for the book I'm working on. I've lined up a ridiculously amazing panel to do technical review before that goes out and I'll want to do the whole thanking them for their help and taking credit for any missed mistakes thing.

If I ever put a television in my shop, it would show things like this: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/77881191-78da-448b-9bfb-6610af469710

Had an uneventful court thing this morning. Nobody can explain why I was ordered to show up for it in the first place but nobody involved in that screw up is going to be held accountable either.

I think they're trolling for fines because if you just raised property taxes a rich person might accidentally pay that and that's unacceptable in America.

Cat makes an excellent foot warmer.

Do you like the color of the coffee?

I want to do this first as a stand alone thing first because that'll let me release sooner, but also because a tool like this is generally useful beyond just Typica. I want this to be usable for people who still do paper logging and I'm open to interop with non-Typica logging software.

The alternatives in use elsewhere are linear splines and Bézier curves. Bézier curves are too difficult to use and too easy to screw up. Linear splines are easy to use but unrealistic at the joints. Relaxed cubic splines are just as easy to use as linear splines but produce a more realistic plan by default.

It looks like today I can spend some more time working on a roast plan design program I've been trying to make usable by non-programmers. The bits that I've already written were used to create things like this or the animated graphs in recent videos. The same code will eventually also get merged into Typica. A key differentiating feature is the ability to interpolate/extrapolate with relaxed cubic splines (no need to mess with control points that aren't on the curve).

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.