Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Software update on the new equipment does seem to be an improvement now that I've roasted some batches with it. I think there's still some low hanging fruit for potential improvements. Took some bad cell phone videos to demonstrate that I'll need to process and upload somewhere to link in from that feedback.

cat: what is posture?

The cat is really into belly rubs tonight.

It's too late in the day to fire up the roaster and try the update, but just based on sticking some bags of roasted coffee under the camera, it looks like it's a lot faster. I'm a little curious now to see what changed in the code (as long as I do have access to that) to improve perceived responsiveness by such a huge margin. I'll see if that's still my assessment during tomorrow's roasting session.

I pretty much skipped over USB sticks for file transfer so now that I need one to update the software on the prototype analyzer I have Neptune's head as about my only option.

Looks like I got paid for my YouTube videos again. The money from that pretty much just goes into paying for the PeerTube server (doesn't quite cover that, but it's not a huge difference). I should do a video showing the new prototype analyzer on my roaster soon. People might find that interesting.

thought: laws of robotics, but for people in government.

It's 1:59AM, time to pet the cat.

The cat is in a knock stuff over with her face mood.

Got paid for those online classes I did. The totally legit check arrived looking like a debt refinancing scam so I almost missed it.

I should buy more food today.

Thought I heard a failing hard drive this morning but it was just the cat doing her failing hard drive impersonation.

quality time with the cat

Such a deal

Yesterday's front porch cat was there again this morning.

There was a smol black cat on the front porch when I left the house this morning. It ran off into the yard and watched me from a safe distance. I reassured it that I wasn't going to chase it, that I was leaving, and it could continue to enjoy the yard/porch. It was still there when I drove away.

cat: *hug*

Also that it's a lot faster to paste ~1MB of text into a text editor and save that someplace reasonable than it is to paste that same text into Terminal. I gave up waiting on that and assume I might have run into some kind of maximum line length in the shell had I kept waiting for that to finish.

TIL Macs come with a command line base64 decoder. Somehow Mail failed to recognize that an attachment was an attachment so I copy/pasted a giant wall of base64 into that to get the expected PDF back out.

Today I used all my cupping bowls.