Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Sent in for a $200 rebate on the new tires. Sadly it's in the form of a Visa gift card instead of something I can just deposit at the credit union.

Shop is mostly put back together. I have some roasting to do now for orders.

New blog post laying out the plan for Typica 1.10.

Some of the changes here are things where if you wanted equivalent features in one of the competing programs you'd be on the hook for an extra ~$3000/year or more over the base pricing depending on how you use it, but Typica will still be free (though if you wanted to pass some of those savings along to support ongoing development work, that's always greatly appreciated).

https://typica.us/typica/2019/05/28/the-plan-for-typica-1-10.html

Car is getting new tires and some other needed maintenance. Got a flat.

quality time with the cat

It's a small change.

https://code.typica.us/neal/Typica/commit/70765123172bd2054d0ea5771892bc3d7d883437

It's all WIP and likely to change before the 1.10 release, but today's tiny core code change can be used to clean up some script code and make multi-window interactions easier to reason about.

departments is a new feature branch in Typica's git repo. People should stay away from that for now as it has changes to core code and depends on database schema updates that aren't yet getting created automatically.

Sanding is done. Time for a cheesecake break.

Taking a break from sanding to eat some pizza.

Tasting production test batches of new decaf coffees today. So far they're all turning out as expected.

Obtained sanding equipment. The shop is closing early today and staying closed an extra day so I can work on refinishing half of the floor.

alternating between eating dinner and petting the cat

This is going to be their 97th year of doing free concerts.

Renewed my ad in the Racine Concert Band program. I don't know if it brings in any business but they reliably do a good concert series at the zoo.

The funny thing about this one is that it's not even a good video. It's just something that I threw together when testing out a then new camera, but I guess it shows up pretty highly on certain searches because those sorts of shenanigans have made it the 7th most watched thing on my channel and the only thing in my top 10 without any real educational component.

There's one particular video on my YouTube channel where every so often another company gets the idea to embed that without sound, attribution, or ads as if it's their own video. When I notice that happening I disable embedding and break that element of their site. If random coffee company wants to license my video for commercial use they can have that conversation with me, but you don't just hotlink someone else's work like that and pretend it's yours.

Yes, my house has collected lots of strange things in it. Video games that are older than I am, industrial process control hardware, full scale model catgirl, assorted commercial coffee equipment in various states of disrepair, green screen, miscellaneous lab equipment...