Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tasting production test batches of new coffees. So far they're all matching up with the labels from the last time we had similar coffees.

Pushed a new version of the software to the computer at the coffee roaster. It's working. Also investigated why one of my sensors wasn't reading on the little roaster. One of the channels on the data logger isn't working right so I've just moved the wires over to a different channel and will need to adjust the software configuration to match later. Oddly, the diagnostic tool that I used to sort this out was screen and issuing commands to the logger manually.

There is a cat in my lap.

Finally unboxed my case of SCAA cupping bowls. Yes, that's right, SCAA, not SCA. Got them a while back after helping out with a class at a lab that had a whole bunch of extra cases. Plus side: none of them were broken. Minus side: no lids. There's enough new coffees that I need to sort out that I figured it was time to pull these out of storage.

Finished off the last of my too spicy chicken.

In related news, the cat is complaining that I took away her phone.

Sure enough, the cat had my phone. I wonder what she thought of all the notifications that came in while I was at work.

Had a good chat with one of my suppliers today who shared some information that another friend in the business wanted to know. Was going to message him with that but then remembered that I left my personal phone under the cat today so that'll have to wait until after I get home.

Previously I just used a library on Windows which was also kind of nasty to work with (it exposed some truly strange implementation choices), but if I just implement the communications protocol myself it should just work everywhere including on platforms that were never officially supported by the hardware.

Messed with a bit of obsolete hardware and hey, Linux support looks to have gotten better. I hate the device's communications protocol, but I should be able to implement something that talks to it without much trouble.

"finished" the feature I was working on. It's still ugly and has terrible discoverability, but I can start using it now while fixing those issues.

Added better debugging output.

May have overdone it on the spicy with dinner, but that's what cheesecake is for right?

Got most of a feature working. It looks terrible and there's a little more to do on making it do the whole thing that I want it to do, but enough is done that I know that what I'm doing is going to work.

The cat thinks it's very important that she sit in my lap right now.

Another chunk of money as thanks for some free software I wrote came in today. I'll want to send a personal thank you email later.

Today has been one of those I start on doing something and that's the cue for everybody to have some weird thing they need my help to deal with. This is fine and I've at least been able to stub out what I want to work on so once I have time to come back to that I might have some aid to memory present.

The cat is in the mood for hugs tonight.

I think it's for more than came in for the entirety of last year.