Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I saw on the calendar that National Bosses Day is coming up and as a boss I just have to wonder WTF do we need that for?

This is also something they can take with them if they decide to seek employment elsewhere.

Two employees recently passed their food safety manager exams for the first time. That's a cert that the business covers for employees who want that even if it's not required for their role. The shop is required to have at least one person with that cert, but my view is that it's better for more people on staff to know the relevant food safety regulations.

Had some thoughts on practical mitigations for a common Typica feature request that I've resisted trying to implement on account of it generally not being possible and in some cases veering into the territory of unreliable and unsafe. Still not 100% on the UI for this but I've put some thoughts on the roadmap because I think I can do something useful on that front which will be better than just ignoring the problem.

My yogurt got crushed somehow so I'm eating that early so it doesn't go bad.

New coffees have been added to the web site.

There's a cat on my lap.

One thing that I will say is that the attribute he identified as what he wanted to cut out is completely absent in the coffee.

Auto drip was not one of the recommended brewing methods for the coffee so I'll probably use the last of it on an aeropress which is on the recommended brewing method list.

As an auto drip brew, there's some unpleasant mustiness to it and an overall deficiency in intensity, but as the coffee cools the more positive attributes become easier to pick out and match the description on the bag. Personally, I'd probably roast this a little darker and change up the profile timing to make the stuff I like about the coffee more obvious, though I get the sense that the machine this was roasted on has less of an ability to use unorthodox profiles this coffee would benefit from

Got a bag of coffee from someone who asked for some roasting advice a while back so I'm brewing a pot of that now. There's also some cupping that needs to get done and a web site update that needs to get finished.

The cat thinks I should skip dinner and burn down the kitchen so she can keep sitting on me, but she would regret that since her food stuff is also in the kitchen.

Continuing to taste production test batches. The new coffee from Java is right on the edge between what I'd consider medium and dark roasts. I'll label it as a dark roast because the sensory cue I use to make that determination is present, but it's present at a low enough intensity that someone not sensitive to that could easily miss it. That's also the safer call because I do skew darker than a lot of places. Nice body, slightly sweet, probably a good blender.

Got a box I was expecting yesterday. It has an assortment of hardware that I want Typica to work with and I'm more confident that I'll get the code right if I can just plug in the hardware and see it working.

Windows: "Could not print"
Printer: *successfully prints*

Tasting the lighter of the two roasts now, this is really a pretty interesting coffee. Conventional wisdom is that the lighter you roast a coffee the more you're tasting origin character rather than tasting the roast and the opposite as you go darker. While I've never subscribed to that line of thinking, this coffee is really a direct refutation. The darker you go, the more it tastes like what you'd expect from the origin/drying.

For coffee, I've got a production test batch of the darker of the two roasts of a new coffee from El Salvador that I did yesterday. It's a little fruitier than I expected based on yesterday's cupping, but really nice.

Shop Internet is back up. They did some line checking stuff and replaced an ancient modem (that was old enough that they didn't even know what it was) with something newer, one of their cables is a centimeter or two shorter now and has a new connector on the end of it. As soon as they had the new thing in all of my stuff noticed and popped right back online.

I did a fake rage when the bot asked me to answer yes or no to what was not a yes or no question.

I kind of wonder if call center people would have less rage to deal with if rage weren't apparently needed to get past the bot.