Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Customer praise for certain classes of business software (scheduling, for example) read rather dystopian and I wonder if the people who wrote those quotes understand just how deeply problematic the situations they're creating really are. At least it's a good signal to prospective employees (the ones who research the companies they're considering working for, at least) to stay far away.

I should probably do a hand sort before roasting the other half of that to at least pull out the pods. Want to taste this before roasting the rest of that. #coffee #roasting

Normally my lab roaster only gets 2 pound or 100 gram batches depending on the purpose of the roast. Today I'm roasting some gift coffee and since I have 600 grams I've decided to split that into 2 300 gram batches so I can try a couple different roasts with that.

The cat is back to normal, greeting me at the front door when I come home from work, wanting to sit on me while I'm trying to eat dinner.

Welcome new people! Wondering what might be good for a first toot? How about an #introduction so we can get to know each other. You can even pin that to your profile.

Sending out my first batch of about a dozen invitations for this instance.

Brought the cat home. She's busy checking on the house.

New passport arrived ahead of schedule, was in the mail box when I got home. The old one will probably show up next week because that's totally how long it takes to punch a hole through it.

Landed safely.

Time to fly home. I think there's dinner on this flight. Arriving late enough that I won't be able to pick up my cat until some time tomorrow.

I still think it's nutty that when Amazon pays royalties on my videos it doesn't just combine different regions into a single transaction. I really don't need ¥1 to show up as its own line on my account statement.

Air travel was better before the TSA.

It's a bad sign when the secutity line runs past the stores just in case you need food/drink/finished your book and need another one to read.

Hot dog lunch in the park. Nice day, why not?

No cat picture today. She's hiding under a blanket. I get to take her back home tomorrow.

Only took until the last night to notice all the charging cables built into the clock in the hotel room.

#cat close up.

Earlier at the event someone asked me if a particular type of control system could be developed (extremely niche use case, but technically possible) and today someone told me about a thing they're developing which would (provided it works) make the initial setup of that quite a bit easier. It's sort of like living slightly in the future of coffee roasting.

One of the odd aspects of how I've positioned myself in the coffee industry is that a lot of people tell me about their cool secret projects and I can't tell anybody about those.

This is the machine I've been teaching at today.