Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Spending more time on the Typica 2 rewrite today. The feature that I'm working on today is more complex than the equivalent in Typica 1.x, but also I hope quite a bit more useful. Chipping away at it just a little at a time and testing that it's doing what I expect and so far it is.

One of the nice things about having been involved in developing professional development curricula for coffee roasting professionals is that I was able to learn about this sort of thing from several extremely qualified people earlier in the supply chain so I look at a contract that's not quite the same as what I normally get and I know what the words mean, why it was written like that, and what the implications of those terms are.

Got a couple new forward contracts to sign. I do these mainly to ensure availability of the coffee while still being able to spread the payments out over time so those are normally just written in terms of what the price is, but there's enough volatility that one of these is more directly tied to C futures and is written in terms that reflect that.

*hug*

Got $2 in the mail from someone who wanted to do a phone survey with a phone number that hasn't been associated with my address in over a decade. I'm inclined to pass on the $20 and not have my real number updated who knows where.

Started writing some code, but then realized that I hated the design of what I was about to flesh out, deleted what I wrote, and designed something nicer.

Kind of surprised that I haven't heard anybody put forward the idea that the way to end school shootings is to add marksmanship to the curriculum and give every child in every classroom a gun to defend themselves with. This is a terrible idea which should absolutely not be done, but also perhaps the most American thing ever, which makes it doubly surprising that I'm not hearing that idea floated seriously by politicians.

Writing code with a headache. I'm going slow, but things are working on the first try.

I've received the official invite to teach at CRG Retreat. I'm still not sure what exactly I'm expected to teach (I told them to slot me in wherever they thought I'd be useful and either send materials if I'm teaching an existing class or let me know if I need to develop something new) but I've done enough of this sort of thing that I can make whatever they get back to me with work.

This morning I went for and achieved a new personal best for Qiqi's elemental skill (not burst) damage with my Blizzard Gambler Qiqi build (not recommended for normal play). #genshinimpact #qiqi

The cat wants my yogurt,

I tried from accounts on two separate servers, both provide the same message, and my end is clean so I'm giving up on sending the reply.

Just on the off change the person who emailed me about the book today happens to go looking for why I didn't reply, your mail server is misconfigured and bouncing my reply back for a reason that is verifiably false. Please fix.

Fun game to play when watching Star Trek: Voyager. Ask yourself, would the crisis of the week have happened or gone so badly had Janeway NOT murdered Tuvix?

Was doing annoying business accounting related stuff today and accidentally ended up on a server admin page that I totally shouldn't have access to on the unemployment insurance provider's web site. I didn't mess with anything there, but it was a bit disturbing that I was able to accidentally see that at all.

Whatever I did to fix printing on the Windows machine apparently only convinced it to work for less than 48 hours and now it's back to being a lazy bum.

Didn't do much coding today, but got the now bar put back together. I might add more features to it later, but for now there are more important things to work on.

Stayed late troubleshooting Windows printing issues (prints would take somewhere between 5 minutes and 4 hours to start). After trying various recommended solutions to the problem found online, I got a nearby Linux box to do the right thing instantly and then tried some random bullshit that I had no reason to expect might fix things on Windows and that seems to have worked despite the thing I tried claiming it did nothing to resolve the problem. Now I'm going to go home and hug a cat.

(not that I would be opposed to a licensing agreement that funds development of the software, that might be the best case scenario for everybody involved)

Sent a company a brief message suggesting they have a discussion with their legal advisors about the name they've chosen for their company on the basis that I've been using the name nearly 2 decades longer than they have and our offerings are similar enough that people are reaching out to me confused as to what link there is between them and me (none). I'm not looking to cause trouble for anybody or trying to extract a pay day out of this, but I'm also not giving up the mark.