Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Finally got around to buying a new vacuum cleaner to use at home. The one I already had was some not good thing that I don't even know where it came from but it took a lot of effort to pull the cat fur out of the carpet.

Okay, it's a nice coffee. Sweet, clean. It's a little lacking in body and personally I'd probably go a little darker, but that's just my own personal preference. I'm also sharing this with my staff.

Got a bag of coffee in the mail from someone on the Typica release mailing list. Brewing a pot to enjoy now.

Can't make a fool of yourself on twitter if you're not on twitter. (insert meme photo) send toot.

Kind of want to replay Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (the one that encourages you to be strategic in planning when you lose).

Time to play some more Future Tone. My cat is a big fan of the Project Diva games.

The cat was upset that I didn't want her to play with some cables, but then I put her on the couch in front of a fan and she seems to be content to let that blow on her belly.

Last night I was going to edit a new video but instead just ended up moving a couple hundred GB off internal storage. Maybe I'll do better at that tonight.

USPS says they delivered a package for me this morning but that doesn't seem to be true.

And birdsite account is now also gone.

These just keep getting better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1zdS6Nhifw

I seem to be deleting accounts elsewhere. LinkedIn and Facebook now gone.

Cat sat down in front of the fridge while I was making dinner and did not want to move out of the way while I put things back.

Back when Macs were still shipping with MC68LC040 I made a little dungeon crawl game. I should see if I can find that some time and maybe make it playable on current machines.

Since doing this video I've made some changes that make this workable even with pretty awful quality hardware and even better with low noise/high resolution data acquisition devices.

It's nice that markdown links to related videos in the description seems to work. Rate of change calculations are the sort of thing where how you choose to do that calculation can greatly impact usability of the feature. Most programs do a horrible job at it and I don't understand why they don't take advantage of the fact that Typica is released under the MIT license and just steal/adapt my implementation.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/8459de3b-2592-4040-8a9f-68df5af397cb

Hardware simulation is sort of a crazy feature to have, but less crazy than the motivation for the feature that's a side effect of: the ability to write communications protocol handlers for devices that look like serial ports in Javascript. It's always better to just write a new hardware support class in C++ and upstream the patch, but as awful as it sounds, script devices can work surprisingly well.

One of the things I like about this video is that it shows how Typica can communicate with simulated hardware on Linux using ModbusPal and tty0tty. That's not useful for someone just using the program, but it's very useful for someone developing new roasting features who may not want to be tethered to a roaster or plug in testing hardware to work on that.

A later version of Typica introduced the ability to simulate hardware directly in the program.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/235ee3db-09bf-4b12-a2d6-4f86a66c4f8e

Finally got around to booking my flights for the event I'm teaching at next month. It's good that I have two airports about equally convenient from home as it took some checking between both of those to find what was going to work best for this trip. Limited shuttles to/from the venue, but didn't want to rent a car, also didn't want to spend a full day waiting in an airport for my flight to leave.