Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

And now I have a 4th email today from FedEx about the package they lied about trying to deliver. No new information has been conveyed.

This coffee had all the defects except fungus and severe insect damage. After sorting those out the coffee is still ugly, but ugly is not a defect.

Given decent tasting results on not a great roast with the defects left in, I'm optimistic about this next batch and curious how this could have turned out with professional processing at a real mill instead of just spreading the coffee out over a cemetery.

That's an odd thing to see.

Should have looked at the other half of this before roasting it. Will pick out the defects before roasting the rest of this.

Apparently instead of 1 email from FedEx today I got 3. The first letting me know that they really meant it, delivering the package today. The 2nd lying about attempting to deliver it, and the third letting me know that they'll try again tomorrow. There's no way any reasonable delivery attempt would have failed.

The cat wants to "help".

red lights are not stop signs.

My latest video just passed 500 views. It's about how temperature measurements get from a sensor into a logging program and some of the stuff that can be done with that data.

Lots of people use settings that aren't optimal for their hardware and understanding what's going on under the hood can help people diagnose those issues and understand which of those can be fixed with a simple settings change and what sorts of things are better addressed with better hardware.

https://youtu.be/___jFPe5GSs

FedEx sends me an email every day about coffee samples.

Day 1: We're going to deliver this package, probably on given date.
Day 2: On second thought, make that given date+1.
Day 3: Yeah, we really mean it. Coffee samples getting delivered tomorrow.

I assume they'll also send me one tomorrow just in case I somehow forget that I'd literally just gotten the package.

If you could redesign the control panel on your coffee roaster, what would you change?

Should I raise the character limit for toots on this instance or is everybody fine with 500?

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.