Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Repos have been put back public for humans (or better behaved bots). Banned IPs are now up to 218.

Well, I gave the bots every chance to not be raging asshats but now I've dropped the ban hammer on 148 IP addresses and counting. Bot wants to crawl my server? Sure, don't care. Bot wants to do that so aggressively I got alarm bells ringing from the huge surge in traffic? Well now you get nothing.

Wow, the bots are still at it.

Temporarily setting all repos on code.typica.us to private since I don't have time right now to sort out a better block to the current bot attack. If a human needs something from there, let me know.

Why the heck is ByteDance trying to DOS one of my servers?

More coffee arrived, but I need to order more coffee.

Shop has a new laptop for the bagging area since the old one self-destructed (I've known it was going to do that for a while). Currently going through the whole figuring out how to disable all the junk. It doesn't need to be a good machine (and it isn't) but I did talk my sister out of trying to go with something too awful.

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.