Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

This is also the chapter that I'm most likely to want to come back to and add more supporting detail.

Drafted a couple more book sections today. The chapter that I'm working on now is probably the single most important one for new roasters to spend a lot of time with. https://roastingbook.coffee

None of the machines at work, that is. I've got a machine at home with some computer control capabilities modded on but it's a weird enough design that anything related to that isn't generally useful.

There's someone in the next city over with a new roaster and he might let me play around with that some time to expand Typica's support for setting controls on the roaster. He's not interested in automation, but the machine is massively overpowered and he wants an easier way to make small adjustments. None of my machines are set up for computer control so I haven't spent much time on that.

There's an update on Typica's development branch that causes the batch details window to not barf if you've somehow managed to create a batch record without a green coffee item. The result is less detailed, ugly, and half of the tabs don't work, but the most important features are there and there's enough information that a confused person can take a screen shot and I can tell them what went wrong. Thanks to @agudbrandson and @jflanders for providing the bug report and enough info to solve it.

On my last grocery run I picked up some of those frozen breaded mozzarella sticks on a whim. The box says a serving is 1 stick and who do they think they're kidding? Nobody is eating just 1 stick.

@agudbrandson I can walk you through any of those if you want.

@agudbrandson Option 1: Enter some green coffee purchases and fix the records to some extent by hand. Option 2: Set the existing batch data as target profiles and just understand that early batches (except the one through manual entry) are problematic elsewhere. Option 3: Like option 2 if you want to save the data that's already in there but then nuke the database and start over, remembering to enter valid data this time around.

If the externals change, I can step in a couple years later and maybe there will be more interesting work to do then.

Officially turned that down. The other big factor in the decision is that the upcoming deliverable schedule is all redoing (for dubious reasons) stuff that we finished years ago. I'd rather work on new stuff.

Received a "thank you for your order" email that was written IN ALL CAPS.

On the other hand, I'm very much that kid who when asked, "would you like to teach the class?" has a history of saying yes and then knocking it out of the park. (I started in 4th grade)

I'm leaning toward either no or not yet, but I'm standing by for more information, clarifications, or a convincing argument for why this is a good idea. There are some things I could do better, but most of my reasons for leaving wouldn't be fixed just by my taking over because the problems originate external to that group.

Yesterday I was looking at new mug designs and mercats (like mermaids except with a cat top) are apparently the hot new thing. I'm guessing these were designed by a Macross fan. Personally, I'm looking forward to getting the octopus mugs.

So in a completely bizarre turn I've been asked if I want to take over leadership of the committee I resigned from. I'll be asking some people for advice and getting some more information to help me make that decision.

The cat is bored, but it's 1:19AM.

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