Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Got email from a chemist I took a class from ages ago. We recently met up again at a party and he's using software I wrote to help with some experiments. In some ways the coffee world is pretty small.

The cat has moved to the top of the couch, mostly.

Why is plasmashell suddenly using up a whole CPU core?

Working on visualizations for the next video tonight. Going big into the roasting exercises that went into my most recent class and how you (if you roast coffee) can replicate and adapt these to advance your own roasting skills.

pie for dinner (chicken pie)

It's snowing.

Slowly playing through Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists. I think I've gotten far enough that it's no longer possible to get a game over.

I am delicious

who's a good cat?

I should use scope guards more.

Coffee samples arrived today. I didn't ask for them but sometimes importers just send me stuff. It's kind of a lot of samples, mostly Ethiopian coffees but a few other also from Africa. I'll have to find some time to run those through the lab roaster and see what I think. Would not mind switching my sample roasting over to one of these some day: https://www.ikawacoffee.com/for-professionals/

With Youmu playable in TH17 will we get an explanation of how half-ghost works as a species? Probably not.

The Bob Wheeler episodes of Night Court are the best holodeck episodes on Star Trek.

Cat yelled at me because I was sitting on the wrong side of the couch. It's very important that my arm can reach the cat seat.

Yesterday I broke some code and it was very confusing because when I reverted to a known good version it was still broken. Forgot about some other changes and found a stupid mistake in the code feeding data into the broken thing which would of course break things in exactly the way I was seeing it broken, and now it's working again. There's a relatively easy fix to prevent this sort of mistake from causing massive damage which I will, of course implement.

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