I did a video about the problem a while back: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/21c63495-4828-4773-ae64-452375a40855
New Brazilian coffee brews properly. The past few years all the coffees I was getting from Brazil had really excessive bloom at a medium roast (not a problem with a dark or light roast or if the coffee had a week or two to stale) unless I adjusted brewer settings or did crazy stuff in the roasting to mitigate the problem. It'll be nice to not have to special case that one anymore. (I still have no idea what was going on that only affected Brazil like that)
Today I'm tasting production test batches of new coffees and adjusting blend recipes. Starting off with a super bright Kenya AB (light roast, fair trade certified). During product development I pretty much just kept pushing the roast faster to crank up the intensity. First crack is still popping in the cooling bin.
As usual, I've sent them an invite to create an account on this server. Most people don't take me up on that offer and the ones who do tend to ignore it until they want to ask me a question.
Someone just sent $75 in support of my free software work. It's the first financial contribution since April. https://typica.us/
Supposedly it's random act of kindness day and instead of doing a random act of kindness, people are trying to delegate their act of kindness to others, or put another way, creating extra work that isn't anybody's job for others so they can feel good about themselves.
I think they're missing the point here.
https://video.typica.us/ has now been upgraded with more storage (this was the driving motivation behind the upgrade, but the other stuff is also nice to have), double the RAM, and double the CPU cores. PeerTube has been configured to run twice as many transcoding threads and I'll see how that works when I upload my next videos.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.