Today's code is very similar to code that I've written a few times before and I'm a little bit worried that this time around I managed it in about half as many SLoC as last time despite half of the approach being exactly the same, but I think the discrepancy is just that last time the code I wrote was just plain worse and tried to do more than it needed to do.
Still no Internet. I've talked to 4 people on the phone, one person on an online chat, and one person in a store, and all of them have told me that what happened shouldn't have happened and that they can't fix it, or that they can't do what the previous person said they'd do. I've used up the high speed portion of phone Internet tethering. The low speed version still works well enough for gaming, but not well enough for streaming.
Got home from work to discover that my Internet service had been disactivated. Three customer service people all thought this was very strange but couldn't just turn it back on so for tonight I'm using phone tethered Internet (with double the gaming ping) and I'll be picking up new hardware and a lower price after work tomorrow.
Fixed a couple bugs. One was legitimately an error in my code, but the other one is obnoxious. There's a condition where the code should be a no-op and if I actually do nothing, an unrelated thing doesn't happen, but if I do the thing that shouldn't have any effect, it forces the other thing to notice it has work to do. That still leaves one bug in the part that I'm working on, but I have a pretty good idea of where that has to be so it shouldn't take too long to track that down.
The house next to mine has had a broken window for years. This morning there was a cat sticking its head out of the window watching me leave for work. I don't know if this is a case of someone with a cat moved into the place or if this is a cat like mine who just decided to move in through the broken window.
Spent some time fleshing out a new data model for externally sourced data in Typica 2. For the 1.x versions all of that was coming from a PostgreSQL database, but Typica 2 is adding more options (one similar and one completely different) such that it makes sense to make more of the code oblivious to where its data came from.
Tonight's coding: first thing I wanted to try wasn't going to work without resorting to dirty tricks so I backed out of that to see if I could come up with a better idea. Next approach was both cleaner and more powerful. Then I reorganized it a bit to shrink it down and make it less likely that I accidentally break it in the future.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.