Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Time to taste coffees that arrived yesterday. First up is a new coffee from Sumatra. It's not the mark that I normally get, but one of my other suppliers got a bunch of potentially nice ones in and I picked one since I don't want to be out of it. On the first sip I didn't care for the lightest roast on the table but it's pretty good across the range from a little before 2nd crack out through almost a French Roast, so rather forgiving and easy to recommend to the home roasting set.

Got the email letting me know that my coffee was out for delivery about 2 hours after it was delivered.

Busy day at the shop so very little coding, but what there has been has been mathy stuff trying to improve measurement stability with dodgy hardware that I told the vendor was not actually fit for purpose.

Told an insurance company that their automated email was not helpful and explained in the survey how to fix that. I don't expect they will, but there's a clear, concise, and easy to implement idea if a human ever reads that.

Minor QOL feature work worked on the first try.

Fixed several bugs.

Grocery bill was higher than I'd like but my checker was the best I've had in some time.

Intentionally destroyed a low security lock because if my staff really wanted to steal liquid soap there are easier ways for them to do that than getting it from the wall mounted dispensers (plus they'd need to know where the "key" is anyway so it's not like this would have been doing anything except making refilling the dispenser harder).

Cooking instructions on the bag of frozen gyoza clearly indicated that 12 should be cooked at a time regardless of cooking method so of course the bag contained 32.

Making good progress on the coding front today. Always hand crafted, never AI slop.

Bought more coffee.

Big under the porch cat was hanging out in the back yard this morning.

Today I changed how to remove green coffee items from a new batch to make that more obvious and easier to do. Might change the visual styling later, but for today I just wanted to make the new thing work at all.

Long day. Time for dinner followed by food coma.

If I ever find out who is responsible for adjusting the traffic light programming in the area, I have words for them.

Stalled on trying to pay the medical bill because the bill that showed up in the mail was for twice as much as what the insurance company said I should pay and I was hoping they'd send a corrected bill (that didn't happen). Their online pay has the correct amount, though, so I guess they're only trying to defraud people who want to send a check in the mail.

One of my suppliers is aware of the issue that prevented me from placing an order yesterday and followed up to see if I wanted them to process the order the web site rejected (I do). Unfortunately, I was also able to shoot down their (admittedly reasonable first guess) hypothesis of what went wrong. My guess at this point is their payment processor screwed something up and doesn't want to admit it, but it's also not my job to fix their web site.

Told a chemistry student that I could get him some samples he'd need for a project. He still needs to sort out the specifics of his experimental design, but he'll be in touch once he's ready to start doing the analysis. My condition for providing the samples and presumably some work space was that he needs to send me a copy of the paper once it's done (not for any editorial reason, just personal and professional curiosity).

Time for coffee.