Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

It's a cat.

Tooted from the old phone which of course continues to work fine for anything that isn't a phone call.

New phone arrived and can confirm rings when called. Made a point of checking that it takes the same size SIM as the old one so it was just pop the card out of the old one and into the new one.

(What I'd really love to see is an updated version of the Nokia N900. I got 2 of those and didn't put phone service on either, but the combination of stylus, slide out keyboard, and my own custom software made it great for things like capturing observations at the cupping table.)

Ordered a replacement phone. I hate phones, but it's not so bad if I think of them as tiny personal computers. Of course that means anything that tries too hard to get in the way of me putting software that I write for myself onto my own device is a non-starter. Picked a pretty green one.

Fire inspectors inspected. They didn't mention anything about the fire I was using at the time so I assume everything was fine.

3d printer broke. It's a pretty old one so now I need to decide if I want to attempt repairing it, get a replacement, or both.

Cheese has been acquired.

I'm going to eat cheese.

One thing that's particularly interesting is that I already have a sensor hooked up on my roaster and full access to modify the code interpreting that data such that I might be able to apply some of their results to live feedback during the roast. I don't have the time to work on that immediately, but hopefully later this year I can do something with that. No guarantee that work will turn into something useful.

Saw a preliminary write up on some research that I was asked for feedback regarding last year. Was glad to see that the researchers have taken my advice.

Got caught up in editing and ended up realizing that I should have been in bed hours ago and dinner has worn off.

This is important because it sets aside a bunch of stuff that I'll explicitly not use to block getting what's already a useful update out the door.

I haven't uploaded the CRUCS 1.2.0 release quite yet, but I have figured out the feature set I intend to work on for CRUCS 1.3.0.

It looks like teachers are getting lots of coffee for teacher appreciation week.

The company hosting this server apparently went crazy and thought the only payment info they had was a card that expired two years ago that they had been using just fine until this month. Also fixed a health insurance payment that auto-pay failed to bother trying to collect and was I guess just not going to bother mentioning anything to me about that.

Looking in the backyard, it seems that it's cat season again.

I saw an incredibly fat bee today.

And then there are the shows that were never intended to fill a wide screen television so they zoomed in on the middle of something with hard titles so you can't read the first half of every episode title and most but not quite all of the song lyrics have fallen off the bottom of the screen.

Some shows that had English translated versions of their OP/ED kept the original instead even when using the English audio otherwise (that's generally the right decision as song localization is hard to do well and for the most part these were awkward) So I get to wonder if current rights holders just didn't get the English song rights and couldn't use those, or if someone looked at both and made a choice to roll that back.