Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Some new mugs arrived today

Tart cherry juice is delicious. Why don't I drink this more often?

hugging a cat

BTW, if anybody wants to buy me one of their roasters, I'd be able to keep up on output format changes. Right now I rely entirely on someone who cares noticing the breakage and sending me a file so I can see what they've changed, which doesn't always happen promptly.

Typica's development branch now has an update to the IKAWA CSV import script since apparently their app has changed the number and order of columns output. The new script can deal with both old and new files. Some time I'd like to have a more generic CSV import, but IKAWA data is tricky because it exports data from prior to the start of roasting so that needs to be detected and handled appropriately.

I wish I were hugging a cat right now.

My sister asked me to buy the latest QuickBooks for Mac for her but Intuit's page for that is broken because instead of just using a link they're doing some JS junk but have the important line commented out. You can view as source to get the link and then paste it into the address bar but like, did nobody test this?

I'm going to eat cake.

It turns out that I accidentally edited out a whole paragraph in the latest video which leads to kind of an awkward segue. "How big of a concern is this?" should have followed talk about early roast drying with an excessively slow start.

Okay, it's gotten through a couple resolutions now so here's a link to that: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/e41dd13a-3071-4bc4-9b2c-b2cd76f18499

The latest video is currently transcoding over on PeerTube. I particularly recommend the viewer question segment where I take a deep dive into what I've previously called the least important part of the roast before bringing it back around to practical considerations in roasting plan design. It'll probably hit YouTube later in the afternoon or evening if you prefer to see ads.

Eating the end pieces from the latest batch of double chocolate biscotti.

My YouTube channel seems to have passed 3000 subscribers this month. I have to go back to 2016 to find a video on that channel with >3000 views so that's pretty messed up. I'm putting basically no effort in there because I don't trust the platform. Everybody here should just watch my stuff on PeerTube instead.

I forgot my phone at home today. The biggest impact this has on my life is that I can't show people pictures of my cat so it's not that big a deal.

Tasting the latest lot of coffee from El Salvador. I didn't like my first attempt at roasting this, but I adjusted the timing and it's a lot better now.

The cat has mostly been ignoring me this morning. It's very windy outside so she's up in the bedroom where there's a soft carpet and a vent directly over the furnace. She's staying near the door and looking out in the hallway so she can keep an eye on me if I go upstairs instead of using the bed.

The next episode of Coffee and Code is shaping up nicely. Still on pace to get that out Monday.

The cat and I are both having dinner at the same time.

Profile translation visualization from the next episode of Coffee and Code (assuming the video upload here worked) in which I'll be talking a lot about how to approach the start of a batch.