Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Had a chance to start testing the code I wrote yesterday. Found 2 bugs. One in the most recent code, another in slightly older code where I expected there might be a problem so I put in a check to warn me if my suspicion was right. Both pretty easy fixes.

That's likely less useful than running variable speed on the impeller, but there are a few uses for such a thing and it would let me sort out a better UI/automation for such things in Typica.

Also ordered a new motor for the roaster. The current drum motor is still working, but the manufacturer's tech team thinks that the sound I called about indicates the start capacitor is about to go. This seems plausible to me. If it hasn't failed by the time the replacement part shows up I'm thinking about swapping those early and using the dying motor to test out the possibility of adding a variable speed control.

Kind of hate the code I finished writing today. Need to do some testing to see if it behaves correctly, but at least it compiles. Have left myself a note to go back and clean that up.

Today seems to be random utility outage day. Internet was down about 6 hours in the middle of the day (I wasn't here for most of that) and I've had 2 power failures tonight.

Productive evening of coding, but I should get some sleep instead of continuing.

Presses backspace on the laptop keyboard, gets a "6" instead. Right, that's why I use an external keyboard.

There's a bruise on my arm that I'm not sure where it came from but it kind of looks like the cat punched me while I was asleep.

I wonder who so many Chinese companies have me confused with that they're glad to know is in the market for such an odd range of products. A lot of that is stuff like fasteners, freight services, stuff that would be assembled into other stuff, but every so often I get something like custom full scale animatronic dinosaurs. Like am I in charge of some kind of illicit sweatshop hidden under a major theme park staffed by naughty children who abused the mascots?

Why am I watching old videos from The Onion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntPxdWAWq8

Cat: *sees me coming in with groceries*
Also cat: *sits right in the middle of the path to the kitchen*

Deleted 41.6GB of old remote media attachments from the local Mastodon server. I should probably set it up to do that automatically from time to time rather than waiting for things to break because the disk is full.

The cat has informed me that it's time to hug the cat.

That's a totally normal thing to start doing at 11PM, right?

I want to make cinnamon rolls.

I'm still upset by what they did to the best restaurant they had. Kicked them out right after they finished a contractually required renovation because a new "anchor" store wanted most of the square footage. The big store didn't last nearly as long as that restaurant had been there and the place that replaced them in the now smaller space wasn't anywhere near as good. (The owners opened up a non-mall location and did fine with that, but it's too far away for me to go there for lunch.)

This morning I took my mother to the mall so she could get help from a phone store. We don't have a good mall (shopping trends aside the management seemed to be doing what it could to kill it for a long time) but it was at least less depressing than the last time I was there. Don't get me wrong, it's still mostly empty, but the mall walkers are back so there are other people there.

They said they'd tag us when they posted the picture to I don't think they said where but I doubt I'll see that because I'm only on fedi.

I am now the owner of one of those giant fake checks. The last time someone came around with a giant fake check it was a whiteboard and thus reusable, but apparently those are really expensive and it was more economical to just have a bunch of separate ones printed (also some people like to keep the giant check). They also had one for the pizza place across the street.

Tomorrow's schedule includes a photo op with the mayor and one of those giant fake checks. The shop is getting some grant money. The city's original plan was to do this as a loan program, but there was enough uncertainty at the time that every small business owner looked at that and said, "this looks like a trap," and stayed away from it.