Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Someone just donated $100 to the food bank in exchange for an empty coffee sack. We usually ask for a $3 donation so that's quite generous.

(The important part of all of this, of course, is bringing back HyperCard. Everything with enough RAM/CPU/Storage should have some kind of end user programming capability pre-loaded. If you need the extra space to add that, just get rid of the Facebook app, nobody uses Facebook anymore and its presence immediately brands you as un-cool.)

Back in the early days of the Mac, basic mouse skills weren't common. One way Apple sought to help with that was by shipping a HyperCard stack that walks people through pointing, clicking, double clicking, and drag and drop. Now that we're in the age of undiscoverable gesture interfaces, could Apple help people get the most from their machines by pre-loading HyperCard with a stack showing people to two handed three finger unpinch to feed the fish?

The new keyboard has linear red switches, so I guess I like keyboards for girls.

I'll probably need to bring in a mouse because reaching up over the keyboard to reach the trackpad is awkward, but I'm pretty sure I have some spares that'll work.

The new thing is one of those fancy gaming keyboards with a bunch of features that I don't need, but I tried typing on all the keyboards at the store and picked the one I liked the feel of best.

My idea of normal use destroys laptop keyboards so I've purchased another keyboard that I can just leave at work to use and I've got an old keyboard I like at home so I guess that's how I'll be using the computer now.

Four new coffees checked, five blends reworked, and now I'm done. Need food.

I'm probably not getting the new coffees out for sale today, but hopefully tomorrow I'll have them on the shelves and up on the web site.

New Fair Trade Peruvian coffee is so good.

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)

Also, this was the cat this morning.

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/

I've been asked to donate to a neighboring village's tree lighting with Santa thing but one of the things they're looking for is $200 of walking taco supplies and that seems like an odd requirement for such an event.

After all the coffee tasting today I deserve a pizza.

Time to taste some coffee. Starting with these 16 different roast levels of a coffee from Kenya.