Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

It would be nice if whatever it is that's trying to send fax spam to my cell phone would realize that's not going to work and find something meaningful to do with their life.

Finally finished setting up the (I hope) last things needed on the newish computer in the bagging area. I couldn't find the passwords for the two email addresses that machine checks for order processing so I had to look up how to change those on my server. Not a huge deal because I have the order emails also sent to my personal account, but now if anybody were replying to their order confirmations I'd be able to see and respond to those messages.

The main challenge was getting all the parts of the old lock removed.

Installed the early birthday present from my sister: a new lock for the back door. I'm having the porch deck out front redone so at the moment that door isn't practically usable, but getting home from work last night I discovered that the outside of the back door lock which worked well enough to lock the door on my way out no longer unlocked from that side (inside still worked). Needed to find a ladder to climb up to the front door to get in last night and would rather not repeat that.

Cat wants to cut off circulation to my legs.

Good to see the Lower Decks writers having the same take as mine about Tuvix. I get that it wouldn't have fit Star Trek at that time, but I think there's a lot that could have been done with that character.

Cat wants hugs.

Got into the shop to find 7 identical spam emails in a row, each allegedly from a different email address. I've gotten that one so many times from so many different addresses that I can only assume that anybody who does business with this guy ends up as part of his spam farm, so he'd be disqualified on that mark even if I were in the market for his services (which I'm not).

Grocery store coupon machine decided to give 1 for ice cream and 3 for cat food. This may or may not be an accurate reflection of nutritional priorities.

Broke one of my cat mugs (handle fell off while washing it) :(

The cat is requesting belly rubs.

CRUCS 1.1.1 is now released. No new features, just bug fix.

https://crucs.net

Nephew was in town so I was able to have dinner with him, his current girlfriend, and her parental types. They all seemed nice.

Good turnout for the memorial service. I've only had to tell a few people that they can't buy anything from me tonight.

I'm hoping the new roast analysis feature gets some use. It allows people to dig into their roasting data in ways that are actually relevant to the sensory results, which you'd think would be the point of any such tool but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Continuing to chip away at a new Analysis tab for CRUCS. Most of the work that needs to get done there is boilerplate stuff, nothing challenging about it, but I'm also probably not finishing that today. Need to run some errands for the shop and then after closing we're hosting a memorial service for a customer who pretty much lived here for several years.

Not sure how DDG got the idea that CRUCS has a www at the start of the domain name, but clicking links from that search engine now redirects appropriately instead of throwing up a scary certificate error.

This is one of those things where I've been writing about the technique and how to use it for ages, but other programs keep getting it wrong.

I've decided to add a profile translation analysis tool to CRUCS next. This is a technique for comparing roast data that I've used since the days of paper based systems and the key insight from that is at the core of Typica's profile translation feature, but having something a bit more powerful and streamlined for post-roast analysis might help more people to look at stuff like this and gain better insight into their roasting.

My mother was having a phone emergency, but I was able to scare it back into working so she didn't need to buy a replacement.