Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Making chai concentrate. One of these days I need to scale up the equipment so I can make >4 gallons per batch.

It's cat season in my back yard again.

Quality time with the cat

Was called into work early today for emergency cookie baking. Now I'm enjoying the test production batch of a new coffee and waiting on a coffee research and education committee conference call.

cat lick

Over lunch I outlined what I'd like a new video series on coffee evaluation to look like and... it's a lot of videos. Still, I think it's worth working on and I've tried to structure it such that I can work on it a little bit at a time as I'm able to make time for it.

Got a BOL for another 800ish pounds of coffee. This one won't need any product development work because it's a shipment from coffee under forward contract (forward contracts with a delivery spread are a common tool to ensure availability of a specific coffee, spread the cost over time, and not need as much on site storage) and I've already gotten some of it. I still have the same amount on contract to ship later in the year.

It's hard to write code with a cat licking your wrist.

Cat visit

New coffee from Kenya is really tasty at a few different roast levels. Making it harder to decide what I want to do with that.

A mastodon shirt arrived in the mail yesterday. It still smells bad from printing, but that comes out in the first wash.

This is a case where the download link is really handy. Lots of instructors don't know how to download from legacy tube and terrible Internet connectivity is pretty common at instruction venues so if people are using my stuff like that I'd really prefer them to be able to fetch that in advance rather than break the class flow with technical difficulties.

I'm thinking about maybe doing a new video series on coffee evaluation methods with an emphasis on cupping and its variations. The idea is to do lots of small videos that cover a narrow topic/skill/technique. I know that there are companies out there that use my roasting videos in their training programs, but I think breaking it down into smaller chunks would make it easier to incorporate these into training programs. Might be a good first set of videos to try on peertube.

Figuring out how I want to roast some of the coffees from my most recent delivery.

It looks like I forgot to take a cat photo today.

Anyway, I've got my short list of features I want to work on for 1.9.1 and I'll see how much of that I can manage to get done. The goal here will be to focus on bug fixes, performance improvements, and features that can be implemented without creating any work for translators (no new translatable strings).

Some day I'll have the budget for a decent machine to do dev work on. This one is really not suitable for it (I didn't buy it for that, but when my old machine got smashed something that I had available was better than nothing).