Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Enjoying another coffee from a different roaster. This one is not as nice as the previous one (personally, I would have roasted this one darker) but still pleasant enough to drink.

Sent out a press release to spread the word about CRUCS. Hoping to get some time to write up a few more articles and tutorials about different ways of using the software, but that's probably not happening today. Anyway, if you need a better tool for making coffee roasting plans, https://crucs.net

Today's #cat

CRUCS 1.1.0 is live now. New features include TSV import, new sampling modes, new options for rate of change calculation, and layer duplication.

Have a plan, roast coffee better.

https://crucs.net/

Drinking some of the coffee I brought back from my trip. I don't get a chance to drink other people's coffees often unless I'm traveling or someone is trying to get my help because their coffee doesn't taste as good as they think it should, so getting to enjoy something that another roaster genuinely thinks is good is a nice experience. (they did a very nice job with the coffee, it's delicious)

The cat is making up for the lack of time to sit on me while I was out of town. Mom would have let her sit on her, but the cat likes me better.

Watching the first 7.5 episodes of a show in English, so of course Paramount+ thinks I want to continue watching the next half episode in French.

Next version release notes are written. Now I just need to make what they say true and I can push the next version live (there's nothing hard).

Hmm... Nope, don't want to do pictures now. I can always push an update with pictures later, but I want to move on to other work for now.

Wrote a new article, "Cubic Splines and the Lost Art of Roast Planning". I think it might benefit from some pictures.

The cat has been retrieved. She's doing her usual patrol around the house but will probably be sitting on me soon.

Last night's return flight was more full than the flight out, but still not packed. I had a guy in my row on the aisle seat who was also working on stuff and we shared the extra space from the unoccupied middle seat. Still, would have been nice if I could swap the laptop battery without using a screwdriver since the outlet wasn't going to work for me.

Ordered another couple thousand pounds of coffee. Needed to keep the order on the smaller side. One thing that I was hoping to get would have been pretty old, new stuff showing up next week but I don't want to delay getting the other things in to wait for that so it'll have to get pushed out a little farther.

This toot was posted from 11,285masl (~37K feet).

Airplane power outlet doesn't work with my laptop so it's almost out of power now, but I got a decent amount of work done on CRUCS before the battery level got low enough that I don't want to start on anything that I'd be upset about having to stop due to running out of power. I reserved the emergency exit row window seat specifically so I could use a computer as those rows are the only ones outside of first class anymore where that's a reasonable prospect.

Someone sent some money in support of CRUCS. Putting in a place for people to leave a message was the right call as it got a conversation started where I could get an example file they were having trouble importing (because it was in a format CRUCS doesn't support but easily could [local dev version now does]). Expect a new version to go up before the end of the week. There are a few other improvements that I'll want to lump in with that and maybe a how to.

Team I was on came in 2nd. I scored our coffee highest, but the winning team's coffee I scored only 1 point lower so I can't complain about how that turned out.

won a basket of prizes for being fastest at solving the roast magazine crossword puzzle. there used to be another book in there, but I already own a copy so I gave that one away.

More free stuff being given out.

Roasted a couple batches on machine I haven't used yesterday. One rep seemed amused by the approach I took, but you don't really get a feel for what a machine can do without straying from orthodoxy.