Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My class has top billing on the Saturday workshops for the event in April. https://www.crgretreat.coffee/education

On the off chance that anybody here is both a Typica and an IKAWA user and wants to help me pay for this so that I can improve the integration there, my project accepts financial contributions and in a given year those contributions have never exceeded my out of pocket spend on the project.

https://typica.us/

I didn't specifically ask for one but I'm hoping that they have a free software dev or famous roasting instructor discount available because I'm pretty much guaranteeing that the project continues to not turn a profit (it never does and I don't intend it to) by buying one this year.

Sent an inquiry about getting one of these for the purpose of improving Typica integration in the next release. https://www.ikawacoffee.com/for-professionals/

Typica currently has an import feature that satisfies what people have asked me for, but it's one of those features that feels kind of pointless. If I had one of the machines I think I'd be able to do a more robust and more meaningful integration and now feels like a good time to work on that.

It looks like this time around what I'm getting is an outer case with lots of scary warning stickers that aren't needed with the inside of the box lined with some thick bubble wrap with a trash bag inside of that tied closed over 6 manufacturer case packs. It's still more packaging than these have ever arrived in from either other distributors or from the manufacturer directly, but for this company it's a welcome improvement over past ridiculousness.

One of the companies that's been sending out shipments with completely insane packaging has finally realized that they can just use the manufacturer's original case packs for me. This order almost looks sane, but I still have to open the inner cartons and make sure the boxes say what they contain. There's also two more outer boxes to open which could be packed in some other less sane manner.

I took some time to break down what it would look like if I made a bunch of Typica tutorials for the next release and if I limited myself to 1 video upload per day I'd have over 2 months of daily videos. On the one hand, that's a lot more than I want to do. On the other, I'd like to have the material done and stretching the work out more than that doesn't really help anybody.

Not the most flattering cat pic

If I wrote updated documentation on how Typica uses the database, would anybody bother to read it?

Didn't finish sorting out all the database changes that are needed to support some new Typica features. One of the reasons I initially had this feature set slated for 2.0 was because I knew just how disruptive this set of changes is. It's probably the largest set of database changes I've needed since Typica added database support. I might work on it more after dinner.

Why is my laptop using 25MB of swap when I still have 14GB of RAM free?

Taking an extra backup of the production database with the intent to restore locally to test out some changes before pushing those to production.

The cat is trying to pretend that she's not following me around the house, but she's bad at it.

Oh, are we tooting about tapirs now?

My main use case here is managing samples (another $1320 per year on top of the extra $1560 in the competing program mentioned earlier), keeping track of coffee contracts, and knowing what's on the way, but it can also be used for running multiple locations off the same database. The main things that I'm trying to address here, a lot of places are currently doing crazy horrific hacky workarounds and I want to provide a sane approach instead.

A competing program offers similar functionality if you're willing to pay an extra $1560 per year, but with Typica all the features are always free forever (though donations in support of ongoing development are always appreciated and can be made at https://typica.us/ )

Next release of Typica will have a big change related to how it handles inventory tracking. This was planned for v2.0 but I think I've figured out how to make it work sooner. It will now be possible to separate inventory out into multiple departments so you can split that inventory up into whatever divisions make sense for your business (or not), run reports on those separately, transfer among them.