Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Banks should really have a separate card activation line for business cards. They ask for the last 4 digits of your SSN, but what they really want is the last 4 digits of your FEIN.

The cat has informed me that she needed a hug. I have hugged the cat. She's much calmer now.

It would also make it a lot easier to incorporate images and data from that into videos. I could do some fun stuff live streaming roasting sessions if I can get it working well.

I'm not promising anything (I don't know if anybody really wants to support this) but I've got the go ahead to see about maybe extracting the code from the auxiliary computer and turning it into a library that could get loaded by Typica (since such a library would be derived from unreleased code that's not mine, I wouldn't be releasing that library without coordination with the rights holder). That likely involves rewriting in C++ but it would save desk space and both a DA and AD conversion.

Roaster cam is expected to return Monday, though without all the planned modifications. I'll see how that looks when it returns and might end up doing a later hardware mod myself (hopefully with instructions). Software side things are good to go so I'll now have four data series graphed at my production roaster: bean temp, air temp, rate of change of bean temp, and degree of roast.

Today's shipping included boxes going to multiple people with names starting with the letters 'ROB'. All stuff that I roasted today.

Idea: timers on ovens and microwaves that start counting back up when they hit 0 so if you missed the ding you can tell if it was just by a little and things are probably fine or if it's by a lot and corrective action may be required.

No mention of the fediverse in there, but it does mention furryMUCK.

Look what I found cleaning out an old computer room, weighing in at 990 pages, the Internet Starter Kit. Complete guide to what's hot, what's not, where it is, and how to get it. Comes with TurboGopher - Tunnel through the resources of Gopherspace.

Being angry at your barista on Facebook over their employer going along with a municipal mask ordinance is not going to convince their boss to take on the risks associated with you choosing not to put on a mask (that the shop is happy to provide at no charge if you don't have one). PS, the competition has the same requirements and some of them won't give you a free mask. Good luck finding someone willing to sell you a coffee.

Okay, I'll finish refining this later. Now it's time to go home and make samosas.

Typica supports hardware that can run faster than that, but the AD converter on that particular piece of faster hardware is awful and mis-matched on other hardware so I'm using the extra samples to calculate a linear regression (since the value being measured is expected to be changing) and eventually throwing away the raw measurements used to compute that just to get something that's surprisingly usable out of the 3-4 significant bits per measurement.

Setting the table view to show all measurements and the hardware to collect data at its fastest rate is fine. The data scrolls by too fast to use, but it's only 50 measurements per second and if that's problematic on even an old CPU clocked at over a few hundred MHz that would be a sign that something is seriously wrong. I wouldn't mind a little less RAM usage, though, not that this is a recommended configuration.

Current channels are now almost working in Typica. There are a few things where the behavior isn't quite exactly what I want, but it's basically usable.

@paulhara Welcome to the fediverse. If you have any questions, let me know.

My sister will get the laptop which might end up being a nice usable for her needs machine once it's wiped. My father had so much junk installed on that (which all tries to launch itself at startup) I don't know how he continued to find it usable, but my sister has decent digital hygiene and I think the hardware should be an upgrade from what she's using now.

Once the phone is wiped, the shop is going to use that as a secondary credit card terminal so I can take my personal iPad back.

New hard drive arrived. My father had a lot of photos and such on his devices that we don't want to lose, but we would like to start re-purposing the tech. The best of the photos we have hard copies on as he had a really nice photo printer (one of those that can do big prints with something like 10 separate ink carts), but we want to keep the digital versions as well. That stuff will probably get copied to multiple drives so any family member who wants that can maintain their own copies.