Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I'm thinking I'll probably go with cup 9 as a first choice because it fills a more distinct role in the product line, but if production testing doesn't go well I can fall back on cup 4 as an alternative which maintains a good flavor balance and has greater intensity compared with its immediate neighbors.

For context, cup 9 is just into the start of 2nd crack.

These all turned out to taste pretty good, with a broad sweet spot ranging from cup 2 (ordered left to right, top to bottom) through cup 9 with a few distinct expressive transformations within the range. (cup 12 has a really nice chocolate note but lacks complexity compared with the lighter cups but I can absolutely see someone tasting that and deciding that's what they want to do with this)

Time for another 12 cups of coffee.

Someone asked how the cat was last night so I may as well post the picture here too.

Cat is demanding hugs.

Tempted to make all of the various settings related to this things that can be updated during a batch. I think that might make it easier for people to tune their setup.

Messing around with the latest hardware arrival for Typica. There are a few details of how to interface with this that I still want to figure out and I'll want to do some tests connected to a coffee roaster to see what the best default values for certain parameters are, but I'm not running into anything surprising yet, so that's good.

Resolved a technical support request for a company running a nearly decade old version of some software I wrote. It's doing what they need so nobody is touching it and honestly, that's fine. I'm hoping that the next version can be set up in a way that the issue they had can't happen, but companies tend to be extremely reluctant to upgrade to the point that I often have conversations where someone will make a feature request and I'll tell them I added that years ago.

Not that it's going to happen but I wonder at what point a few Rs in the house just vote for the D as speaker just to get it over with and move on to anything else while their party tries to remember how to get a deal done.

I'll get over it before too long but videos of humans losing at chess to Mittens the cat bot can be pretty entertaining.

Calculated the food bank donation. We're sending a couple hundred dollars more than last year, though still down a bit from the year before last. This doesn't include whatever customers have tossed in the cash box.

Agreed to do a short coffee roasting lecture at a poetry event next month. I'll also be busting out the Chemex and doing pour overs throughout.

The cat has moved on to intense hugging.

The cat is shoving her head into an empty mug.

Sticky notes came with instructions.

New shopvac filter arrived. The one I got at the local hardware store was awful so I'm looking forward to getting the new one in and catching up on some cleaning. This is that order where I added on some sticky notes to bring the order up to get free shipping so of course the filter and the sticky notes are shipping separately. I wonder how much they lose on extra postage for cheap things that wouldn't have been ordered if it weren't for the cut off for free shipping being where it is.

Removed Holiday Blend from the web site. There's still a little bit available on the shelf if you're local, but I don't intend to make any more. There'll be a new recipe toward the other end of the year.

People were setting off explosives last night, but at least everything was audibly distinct as fireworks, not gunshots. It's harder to tell some years.

Today's spam wants me to buy into automated cryptocurrency trading as an "Insanely Easy Way To Become Rich In 2021". I'm thinking that if I had a time machine to go back to the year 2021, I could probably sort out something better.