Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

In othet news, the cat is trying extra hard to lick my hand.

The $200 rebate from my tires arrived today. I still wish that was real money instead of a MasterCard gift card but whatever, I'll figure out how to use it. Probably groceries.

Last night I restarted Bloodstained because a patch made it impossible to make further progress by making a key item unobtainable. It only took one evening to get past where I'd gotten stuck but that also means that I'm now a few bosses farther along and massively under-leveled for it (though better equipment is helping make up for it).

The box that's on its way back to London is currently in Leipzig. It should get to London tomorrow and hopefully they'll figure something out by Wednesday and send me back a working machine. Will it return in the same box that's now made at least 2 transatlantic trips? I'll find out.

She thought she was going to be an African art dealer but accidentally ended up in coffee instead.

Coffee sample arrived in the mail today. It's from someone who doesn't try to sell me coffee very often (she's transitioned to spending a lot more time working on social/community/non-profit type work adjacent to the sector) but she knows what I like so I'm always happy to try something she thinks I might want to buy.

Cat Won't Stop Destroying Shower Curtains - The Dodo https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/cat-wont-stop-destroying-shower-curtains

So it turns out that the reason I haven't been able to get farther in Bloodstained is that a patch caused the chest that was supposed to have the silver bromide to be pre-opened, which means that I can't get my picture taken, which means that I can't get a fake ID from the vampire librarian, which means I can't board the train to the next area. Options are to start over or to uninstall/reinstall and never let it get patched.

Oh, yeah! This fixed a minor (doesn't hurt anything but was a bit obnoxious to see) bug with how Qt Creator was displaying files in one of my projects.

It looks like DHL estimates they can get things from Wisconsin to the UK faster than they can get the same things from the UK to Wisconsin.

Downloading Qt 5.13.

posing for the camera

Chilling with the cat

If I download a big file in Firefox the notification in plasma spins up a full core to 100%. Not on the latest plasmashell. Hopefully whatever causes that is fixed. It does the same thing when trying to decide which WiFi to connect to. That's got to be the least efficient throbber ever written.

Probably the nicest feature here is the use of relaxed cubic splines for (inter|extra)polation. That's a much better model for coffee roasting (and a lot of other physical processes) than what other editors support.

While this code will eventually get merged in with Typica and will work with data generated by Typica, I'd like to also keep a certain level of functionality available as a separate program so that people who don't use Typica can benefit without a lot of bloat. Some of this is useful even for people who are still on paper logging and I'm open to supporting import/export for competing programs.

Today seems to be a good day for writing programs. I've been working on a new program for handling coffee roasting data: viewing, editing, creating roasting plans, comparing plans, making educational graphics, &c.

I've been using the pieces I have for graphics in my videos, but that way of working is not nice for people who have never written a computer program.

A recent example is the graphs in this video (7:59, 30:47): https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/dd83fb76-08de-4d3a-b995-841ef3fada73

The defective coffee roaster has been picked up and is now on its way back to the manufacturer so they can fix it. It arrived broken.