Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The plan this instance runs on got a free upgrade so typica.us was down a couple minutes to make extra storage available. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Stop.

Once I had ECRs where the software didn't have the ability to save reports to a user specified location (you could save the reports, but it would always be buried under a dozen levels of cryptic directories so to find them you had to search the filesystem for recently created/modified files) but it did have background music. Needed to remember to mute the audio before attempting to update PLUs.

The bar for doing better is, IMO, pretty low.

Coffee is getting delivered tomorrow. Currently enjoying the new Ethiopian coffee from the previous shipment (getting new labels/register programming ready for that so I can start selling it now that I'm happy with the roast).

One of these days I'll get some time to work on a replacement for the ECRs since those are all pretty awful to program and I'm also unimpressed by the POS software that I've seen. I can do better for my needs.

That's not to imply feedback would not be welcome on other issues as well.

I got a couple feature requests for Typica today.

For the first one I'd welcome community feedback on whether the trivial change requested is either of value or not detrimental as something that could be available (well, is, in the feature branch so you can test that and see what you think) before the broader work that I think makes more sense is done. Typica users, free to reply here or on the github issue page if you have any strong feelings one way or the other.

https://github.com/N3Roaster/typica/issues/162

There's a cat on my head.

The cat I'm visiting has decided to sit in petting range tonight.

Birds were trying to get run over while I was driving today, but I declined to hit them.

It's (more) shedding season.

When I come home from work my cat yells at me until she gets hugs. This is a daily thing unless I stay home all day.

Daily #cat visit.

(also I prefer KDE from a usability standpoint)

My Mac has developed the annoying tendency for WiFi to stop working when using one of my port expanders, but not right away and randomly. Unplugging fixes. I miss my Linux laptop where hardware actually worked, the computer had a nice assortment of useful ports, and I didn't have to pay so much attention to available storage space because I could get an acceptable amount without spending obscene $.

I wish I had more time to work on Typica 2.0. Mostly because I want to be using Typica 2.0 in production.

Bought another 2400 pounds of coffee.