Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

the cat has declared it hugs time

I guess I did a little better than I thought. Was still decently high at 129, got in a few more attempts to move back up to #18. Still not all that happy with the runs and still expect to drop quite a bit before it's over.

This morning I was ranked #1 on a pinball tournament, not because I was any good at the game but because I was one of the first people to post a score. I expect my position has dropped at least a few hundred spots by now.

Finished sorting out blends. Most of them could just carry on using the old recipes with the new ingredients, but one needed an adjustment to the proportions to keep it tasting good.

And the cat is back in my lap.

The cat has moved. It looks like 2-5 hours was the correct answer.

Big yawn with cat

How long will the cat sit on me?

I've given up on the coffee product development work for today (still have a few blends to rework) and now there's a cat sitting on me. It's too hot for that, but the cat insists.

This is related to current work on reimplementing reports in Typica. The 1.x approach (generate HTML and shove it to a web view with some extra features injected) worked, but had quite a few of its own issues so I'm trying something else for 2.0 which is mostly working out nicely. The little frustrations so far seem minor compared with the 1.x issues and by the time all the reports are reimplemented it should be a lot less code organized more sensibly. I'm overall pretty optimistic here.

Also mucking about with QML. Apparently if you have a ScrollView with the contentWidth property set and a Column containing an Item that combines one or more HorizontalHeaderView and TableView children, attempting to resize the columns by dragging the space between the headers instead just uselessly drags the viewport of the ScrollView around. I ended up getting rid of contentWidth and instead stuffed the contents in an Item with its width property set instead and that works.

Taste testing production test batches of new coffees. The one from El Salvador with the cool frog on the bag is pretty good. I'm doing a couple different roasts on that, but it's one of those coffees that's hard to screw up so home roasters can just try to put it at about whatever roast level they generally like and it'll probably be fine.

Having kringle for breakfast.

The cat is punching my hip.

Checker while buying milk was having a rough time. Rang up 6 of a thing I only had 2 of and while trying to refund 4 of them rang up another 9. It all got sorted out in the end, but it took a while.

It looks like someone accidentally used my shop's address to subscribe to Vogue. Hope they're able to sort out the error.

The cat was still asleep when I went to work. Got home to find the cat awake but still in exactly the same spot.

Coffee shipment arrived a couple days sooner than expected. Most of the bags this time are pretty plain, but we've got the coffee with the cool frog on the bag back now. Taking a shower break before I get to work on figuring out what I want to do with the new coffees. It's going to be a longer than expected day.

The two people most likely to do the baking at the shop are on vacation so I'm doing that today. One batch of scones might be a little off. I ate one to test it but part way through baking I looked at the timer and noticed that it wasn't running so had to just take my best guess at it. Cranberry bread is taking longer than the recipe indicates to get finished, but that's normal.

Outside is chirping.