Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Amazon does this thing where they split the video royalty payments up into multiple regions and they each pay out separately. The terms when I was signing up for that suggested that there's a payment threshold, but they've never stuck to that so some months I get up to four separate deposits for as little as 1 cent. I'm kind of amazed they don't at least merge those into a single payment.

34 cents in royalty payments last month for some videos I have up on Amazon (free with Prime). That's a pretty good month for me. The same videos and more are also available on YouTube and PeerTube.

Next on the schedule for the day is a research and education committee conference call, getting an emergency wholesale order roasted, packed, and shipped, talking with another local company that's interested in setting up a wholesale account, and tasting the test batches that I roasted yesterday. I'm thinking I might do French Press for those.

Of course the machine that I'd really like to be able to bring in costs more than both of those put together, would involve redoing the bar to make it fit, and require retraining my staff because it operates under radically different principles.

2nd espresso machine ordered. It's not as nice as the first one but I needed something a little smaller to fit the space.

Finished up my last trophy in Bloodstained. Apparently I don't need the weapons transmuted from 32 bit coins and 8 bit nightmares, which saves me from needing to grind 8 bit overlords and extra money.

I'll probably end up MITMing the app to figure out how to get at the native data at some point.

Probably the biggest limitations on the app are that you get 3 markers and if you try re-using one the first one gets deleted. Personally, I'd be happy to use 8-10 roast progression marks. The marks also don't get a column in the CSV export which makes that data less useful unless you make a point of copying that over (at which point you may as well just note times on paper and use as many notes as you want). Maybe the Cropster export is better, but I'm not paying >$3000/yr to lose features.

The app and its data export features have some kind of bad limitations for the sort of exploratory work I'm doing today so I'm supplementing that with a low detail paper log.

Timing on this one is probably too slow for this machine, but this is at least potentially delicious. #ikawa

Most people with the Pro V3 will probably never attempt to take a coffee that dark because it's something that you buy as a sample roaster and at that roast level you can roast out defects that you want to know about before buying a coffee, but at the same time it's good to know that the machine can push a coffee that dark (though it needs to get there slower if it's going to taste good).

Part of learning a new roaster is testing its limits. Halted this one at 4:20, fixed 80% fan, 540°F inlet. #ikawa

My mother has apparently decided that it's a fun summer activity to let herself into my house while I'm not there and scare my cat. Should I change the locks?

If the indexers were well written I wouldn't even notice they were running, but I've seen several of these things come and go over the years and they're always lousy.

Disabled a file indexer. Computer works better now. File search is not something that I do often enough that it's worth wasting resources letting an indexer run. (I know where I saved my files)

Fun fact: if you have an espresso machine with a PID controller that does RS-485 and connect that to a USB serial adapter, you can hook your espresso machine up to Typica. That's a lousy idea as a full time thing but it's nice to have as an option during the initial controller tuning since factory recommended settings tend to be garbage and if you know what you're doing you can get better results than your controller's auto-tune features.

I should probably pull the PID controllers and USB adapters out before the old machines are hauled away. Neither was original to the machine and I can always use more test hardware.