Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Last night I failed to get the photos off my late father's old iPhone while it was plugged into his old Windows laptop. Nothing was showing up in a file manager, iTunes was unhelpful, couldn't figure it out. Today I tried plugging it into my laptop running Linux and despite a "might be unsupported" message on the phone, everything just worked and I could use Dolphin to copy the photos off no problem.

Today I've been informed that my shop has, as usual, gotten into the top 3 for whatever the coffee category is in the local paper's Best of Racine thing. We always just ignore that and I think anybody who wanted to win that wouldn't have to try very hard to get enough votes, but we've also gotten first on that more than any other coffee shop in town. Just in time for the city to wipe out the business district I'm in with bad road construction planning.

It looks like I'm out of 6 cans of tea boxes for the 2 pound online coffee orders so I'm moving on to the 5 pounds of caramels boxes for that order size.

With default data acquisition hardware settings, no calibration (just going from the specs), and no attempt at doing anything to smooth things out, this is my first attempt at capturing degree of roast data in Typica. Apparently when the measured values are out of range on the high end the signal drops out on the bottom (I need to verify that and make sure it's not a bug in my software). It's a noisier signal than I'd like, but I've got some tricks that might help with that. Still promising tech

Today I helped my mother buy and set up a new television. It came with a pretty nice cat mat.

Power's back, but this still seems like a decent plan.

Got home, no power, phone at 3% charge so I guess the plan is to light some candles, open a bottle of wine, and read a book.

My sister has asked about a Linux for dummies distro since my father had so much garbage installed that his old laptop will need a full wipe anyway and Windows has been annoying her in ways Linux doesn't. What's the preferred thing these days for an old HP laptop?

Earlier she was on top of the big printer.

Mom's cat has decided to hang out with me while I wait for files to copy.

If the GOP really thinks the extra $600/wk unemployment benefit was discouraging people from going to the jobs that still don't exist, dems should offer the compromise position of giving everybody that $600/wk. That way, nobody loses it for going back to work and they get their work wages on top of that. (though we're still dealing with a pandemic and there's a case to make that paying people to stay home is exactly what we should be doing now)

I suspect this might contribute to the total lack of outside code contributions, but it does make me more productive, especially if it's been a while since I've modified the program.

For those wondering WTF a .w file is, the core of Typica is written in literate C++. The .w files get processed by ctangle to produce the files the compiler expects and you can optionally run the same stuff through cweave to get a .tex that pdftex can turn into a (currently) 649 page book of source code documentation (which is unfortunately not as nicely typeset as version 1.0 was).

(but not today)

Odds are good that I'll do a Windows pre-release build for the adventurous.

Current channel support code has been pushed to code.typica.us

There's more that I want to do before a version 1.10.0 release but in the unlikely event there's someone who both needs that feature and is cool with building from the updated .w files, that's a possibility now.

My sister made another mask for me. Now I can choose between topographic dinosaurs, monochromatic dots, or whatever I borrow from the supply of work masks. I think she's going to make a couple more for me now that she knows I prefer the type that's tied on behind the head instead of looping behind the ears.

2nd attempt works correctly. It was just 3 extra characters on 1 line of code.

First attempt at some code I wrote today didn't work, but once I figured out the mistake I'm mildly surprised that it didn't just outright crash the program.