Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Progress on a couple fronts:

1. I'm getting an IKAWA roaster. This is going to be helpful for developing some of the features I want to work on for Typica 1.10.

2. The class I'm teaching in August was booked to conflict for time on the roasters with another class so I got to have a conversation about what the options there are. Fortunately I designed my class to be highly adaptable and could offer 2 solutions to the problem and we picked one.

cat

The cat likes when I pick her up and carry her around the house.

The cat that lives with me snores.

Getting cat hugs

Thinking I might make a video about chai. Not today, but maybe a couple months from now.

I'm into the 3 month period where construction could make the street I'm on at home inaccessible/unusable. Others on the street don't seem to be taking notice, but I'm parking in a city lot the next block over so I don't try to go into work one day and find that I'm cut off.

Health inspector came around for their annual check. We're all good.

The last sample was also not up to the standards of what I'd like to serve. #TeamCow

A lot of people have been asking for drinks made with almond milk so I've been doing some taste testing. I've got one more sample to try, but so far none of the almond milks that I can buy locally perform well in the range of drinks I'd need to be able to produce if I brought that in as an offering. Please don't link me to your favorite almond milk. I know that appropriate things do exist, but I need something that's reliably stocked locally.

Congrats to Phyllis Johnson on her Maggie Award for best signed editorial (link to article below). I've had the pleasure of cupping coffee with Phyllis both in my shop and in Ethiopia and she's sold me some really nice Kenyan coffees over the years. She's been doing good work for a long time and it's good to see this recognition.

https://www.roastmagazine.com/articlepreviews/novdec18/StrongBlackCoffee/

Added a video to yesterday's blog post. It's one from about 9 months ago in which I'm not doing any of the talking.

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

Apparently I need to paint my PS4 blue before I can play this.

Estimated processing time 6-8 weeks, which is pretty crazy considering it's online electronic submission.

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