Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

It's ice machine cleaning day.

If you can't remember the last time you cleaned your ice machine, it's time to clean your ice machine, too. You can use the reminders feature in Typica to put that on a schedule if you don't have another way of keeping track already.

Poorly maintained ice machines can be a vector for the spread of disease. Big problem in hospitals. Probably less likely in coffee shops, but why take that chance?

Another takeaway from expo that I haven't posted yet: while I've never been a big fan of cold brew coffee (I prefer hot brewed iced coffee and I prefer hot brewed hot coffee even more), I have to admit that it can be pretty good if you add enough booze to it.

Cold brew isn't for drinking. It's for use as an ingredient in something else.

Working lungs would be nice.

For some reason Amazon thinks that I want to buy a 4 pack of 10 bit ADC ICs. I can't think of why I would buy that.

Odds are good whatever µC I'd be plugging that into already has an ADC at about that resolution. If I needed to break out to an external chip for that I'd probably want something more like 24 bits (and then count on not using all of those bits because my circuit design skills aren't that great).

It looks like the 1.5 days of spring a couple weeks ago are all we're getting here. Now it's summer and I'm over-dressed for it.

Had a chat about how roasting classes went at Expo. There was some good feedback in from attendees (yes, I read the feedback forms) and some things that weren't captured in the forms that I noticed. While the feedback was overwhelmingly positive, there are certainly some things that can be done to make these go even better at retreat.

Loaded a new roll of paper in the batch tag printer at the roaster.

Every so often I think it might be a good idea to bridge a coffee roaster to a MIDI control surface. (Fortunately?), I don't have a machine where this wouldn't be entirely too much work.

Ethiopian coffee samples are on the way. It's been a while since I brought in a Harar so I'm hoping to find something nice from there.

I visited the city at about the same time as the coffee industry was finding out that coffees from that region would also be going through the ECX right away while they'd previously expected a more gradual phase in. This was also one of the few trips where my high school French classes were useful.

The cat has decided to add "alarm clock" to her duties. Unfortunately, she's lousy at deciding when I should wake up.

USPS has a big red banner warning that old browsers won't be supported soon and I'm just over here wondering if they ever got around to sending label PDFs with the correct MIME type. For a long time they didn't.

Just noticed that I have two scales in my roasting area, exactly the same model, and their beep sounds are 1 semitone apart. Have they always made different sounds? A third supposedly identical scale in the kitchen plays the same higher note.

He did it for the vine.

He also died young, probably from doing this so often.

Each bag weighs approximately 60Kg (132Lb).

People are always surprised when they find out just how little money comes in to support ongoing development of Typica (so far this year it's $125 from 2 people).

People hear that, say that it seems like we should be able to do better, that it's such a great resource, but then they don't send money.

Yeah. Some day it would be nice to be able to take an extended period of time to work on that full time. Development pace could be a lot faster. But I like to eat.

https://typica.us/payment.html

Made my last car payment today. It'll be nice not sending off a few hundred per month for that.

Today's spam included, "It will be a competitive feature help you attract more customer and get more business."

The product? Turnstiles. <sarcasm>Because when I'm out looking for a coffee shop, this is exactly the feature that I look for.</sarcasm>

My old passport has come back. This time around it had two holes punched from the front cover through to the ID page. The passport before that got punched once through the whole book. This time around I went for the big book so I probably have another decade before I find out how they punch the next one.

Lavender flavored lattes are weird, excessively obscure the espresso, not sufficiently purple.