Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I should see about updating my driving music playlist in preparation for the 15 hour drive.

Have my reservations for my next trip sorted out. I'll be teaching a coffee roasting class at a trade event in New Orleans next month. Organizers are doing better than I expected with the covid safety stuff, but I also understand anybody not wanting to go to something like that now.

Tested the code that I wrote yesterday. It all worked with the exception of one thing where I missed an & in a place where the type system can't help me for legal reasons.

Road construction crew has one of my empty green coffee sacks hanging off the side of their truck today. It looks like they're installing the curb today. Hope they don't pick Friday or Saturday to shut us down for sidewalk installation.

Massive construction related dust storm in front of the shop. Recommend protective goggles if you're going to try getting to any of the businesses on the street.

Found a cardboard box that works very well as a lap desk. Large enough to hold both my laptop and a full size keyboard (since laptop keyboards don't last as long as the rest of the laptop), rigid enough that I can move it easily, good working height.

Didn't completely finish the code I was working on today, but I got a good portion of it done and what I do have seems to be working correctly. Might pick it back up after dinner while there's a chance the design will still be in my head. I'm continuing the trend of the new code being simpler than what I wrote the last time I solved this problem so still feeling pretty good about this rewrite.

New power adapter for an old laptop arrived today. That fixed the power issue that developed a few days ago. Glad I could keep that running with a cheap fix.

The cat says it's time for hugs.

Today was a highly productive day of coding. It's a rewrite of stuff I'd previously written, but now there are relevant language and library features that didn't exist the first time around so I can write it smaller, simpler, and with fewer hacky workarounds.

me: *tries to play Tetris*
cat: *moves head between human and screen*

Got back a nice info dump in preparation for the next class I'm teaching. Assuming I get all the supplies I want I'm looking at doing 4 little coffee tastings throughout the class. One with 5 coffees, three with 3, but it's all the same coffee just roasted in specific different ways.

Video of this morning's run: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/e3246e2a-de75-47d9-87fd-e63f0e4c95b0

It's still about 100K lower than the biggest Qiqi hit I'm aware of, but this morning I set a new personal best in single target Qiqi damage. That's as far as I'm going to be able to push things without either a different combo setup or better artifacts so I think I'll be taking a break from cryo burst Qiqi and going back to my preferred physical build. Of course, my old best hit 3 targets so combined damage was higher there. #GenshinImpact

If I receive a phone call from an automated dialing machine with a recording that kind of sounds like a computer synthesized voice claiming to be an officer, can I say I hung up on robocop?

The cat is on patrol.

How do we all feel about cats tonight?

That hit for just under 283K used food. This hit for just over 291K did not. In other words, I just need to replicate this with food buffs to set a new personal best for single target Qiqi damage. But I'm mostly out of meat and fish so I'll keep play testing some options and see if I can get something better or close enough with easier execution requirements.