Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Did a bit of work on the print styling for the thing I've been working on lately. I want this to be usable by people who don't have a computer connected to their coffee roaster and the easiest way to go there would be to print something nice to paper that someone can slap into a clipboard and have ample space to write in their measurements and observations.

Have gotten 3 notifications about the outage: one letting me know about it and estimating a repair completion time. Another with a revised later completion time. A third with they're working on it but who knows when it'll be back up. In unrelated news, I'm finally finishing off a bottle of scotch I was given a bit over 1.5 years ago.

Weather has once again knocked out wired Internet in my area. The cat is taking comfort in curling up in my lap.

And a good choice for domain name isn't registered for that. Should I go ahead and get that? Hmm...

I think I've found a good name for the web thingy I've been developing lately. The only conflict I could find was with a university physics lab doing work very far removed from mine, it's an acronym that succinctly describes what the thing is for, and it can be pronounced as a word that resonates with why I'm putting work into this at all.

This may or may not be related to my general dislike for user interfaces that involve fussing with boxes on screen when all I really want to do is just type in the exact values I want and have the computer respect that.

I've considered also letting people click to set control points and edit the curve that way, but I've used editors that work that way and hate it. Mouse cursor just doesn't have the precision to make that a good experience and I shudder to think how awful that would be on a phone or tablet.

Added the ability to mouse around the graph and get some useful information in response. The vertical line follows the x position for the mouse while the horizontal lines show the temperature and rate of change given in the plan for the given time. A text box gives all three values.

Have I mentioned lately how I hate graphics programming? Yeah, still true.

Had a weird baking soda experience today. Shelf had the major national brand that everybody knows about in a little box plus a store brand container. The store brand got you two and a third times as much in one container, but it was priced 10x. I can't imagine they're selling any of that unless it's to people who are just not paying any attention at all to what they're buying.

The cat was still asleep when I went into work this morning so I'm getting extra attention from the cat now.

Making the graph on the web page I've been working on lately interactive to make it more useful. Pretty straightforward code, but finding the relevant bits of documentation to write it was more hassle than it should have been.

Used all the coconut in today's baking.

Realized I didn't need some recently written code and removed it.

Doing some refactoring from my initial quick and dirty port to enable a few features that I think are important. Also, I can barely hear anything today. Nurse mother thinks it might be wax, but the stuff she recommended for fixing that hasn't worked yet.

The cat is looking at a wall.

There's a lot that I could add to the web page thingy I've been working on lately, but I think I'll just see what I can get done by the end of the weekend and maybe throw a version 1.0 online if there's nothing too broken so that other people can have a thing that's useful sooner rather than have to wait until I'm completely happy with it. It's already useful and usable enough for the main use case I had for making this in the first place..

What's up with all the sales pitches I'm getting for POS terminals lately? Emails, text message, in person visit from a sales person. As near as I can tell, the value proposition is that I pay way more money over time so my staff can be slower at helping the customers and I get some features that kind of sort of look like they might make sense if you squint at them just right but genuinely don't belong in a POS terminal. (If I wanted a POS terminal I'd just build a POS terminal)

Had a bit of time before I was going to be able to fire up the coffee roaster so I did a bit of work on the CSV import feature. Had a silly bug in the preview generation code that was highly likely (but not certain) to cause the browser to consume a CPU thread at 100% and all the memory it could get, but that's fixed.

Opened Pinball FX to check out the new season rewards and the game just went ahead and instantly unlocked all of them immediately. Not sure what's up with that, but I'll take it I guess.