Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Started playing Atelier Ryza and I have to wonder, if Ryza hasn't seen alchemy before, why is she already dressed like an alchemist at the start of the game?

The cat just gave me a head pat.

Speaking of Breath of Fire, am I still the only person who actually liked Dragon Quarter?

In case anybody wanted to buy some of that coffee to try it for themselves, the link to purchase that is: https://wilsonscoffee.com/products/ethiopia.html

The page also has an embedded PeerTube video that walks through my product development process for that coffee. In that I'm also talking a little bit about why you can't really go from some of the things you might measure as part of a quality assurance process directly to a marketing term for roast level (as I'm again trying to dissuade the guild from trying).

Tried mixing in a bit of my current Ethiopian in an espresso blend and at 10% it completely dominates the flavor, so I'm probably not using that. A couple years ago it would have been on trend to just do 100% that, but while that's nice as a rare change of pace, I wouldn't want to drink that every day.

Idea for a TV show: "The Good Cat". The title is all I've got.

This is getting kind of ridiculous. There's got to be some kind of catch, right? The number keeps going up.

So what should I do with >$1700 in aliexpress coupons?

Autumn the cat is hiding.

Someone who hasn't watched Star Trek should do a viewing, but in order of the earliest date seen in an episode.

"our coffee is for drinking" - me, just now with someone who probably won't buy my coffee now because they wanted to take that in through a different orifice.

I may or may not be spinning up another company within the next several months.

Spent most of today's conference call explaining why a proposed project is a bad idea. I explained this in an email a few committees back, it was recognized as a bad idea on the previous committee, and the issue was also taken up by another committee that I wasn't on that also independently came to the conclusion that this was a bad idea. At least another person was also on the call with a lot of the same institutional knowledge to help me push against that.

Last night I realized that a couple features I want for Typica 2 could be designed in a way that both reduces the amount of code I need to write and has some very attractive properties that simplifies a ton of considerations over my previous thinking of how I'd need to implement things.