Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Timing on this one is probably too slow for this machine, but this is at least potentially delicious. #ikawa

Most people with the Pro V3 will probably never attempt to take a coffee that dark because it's something that you buy as a sample roaster and at that roast level you can roast out defects that you want to know about before buying a coffee, but at the same time it's good to know that the machine can push a coffee that dark (though it needs to get there slower if it's going to taste good).

Part of learning a new roaster is testing its limits. Halted this one at 4:20, fixed 80% fan, 540°F inlet. #ikawa

My mother has apparently decided that it's a fun summer activity to let herself into my house while I'm not there and scare my cat. Should I change the locks?

If the indexers were well written I wouldn't even notice they were running, but I've seen several of these things come and go over the years and they're always lousy.

Disabled a file indexer. Computer works better now. File search is not something that I do often enough that it's worth wasting resources letting an indexer run. (I know where I saved my files)

Fun fact: if you have an espresso machine with a PID controller that does RS-485 and connect that to a USB serial adapter, you can hook your espresso machine up to Typica. That's a lousy idea as a full time thing but it's nice to have as an option during the initial controller tuning since factory recommended settings tend to be garbage and if you know what you're doing you can get better results than your controller's auto-tune features.

I should probably pull the PID controllers and USB adapters out before the old machines are hauled away. Neither was original to the machine and I can always use more test hardware.

The new espresso machine isn't here yet and my sister is talking about moving up the schedule and getting the other espresso machine replaced as well.

Cat posture.

I need to wash my hands.

went into work early to look over a machine staff was worried about, called a service company whose tech replied, "I'm not touching that," stayed late to do enough of a repair myself, enjoying a test oat milk cappuccino to verify the repair work, the cat will be mad at me for being out extra long.

My yard used to attract cats.

A couple of the younger ones are playing.

Remember several days ago when there was a giant raccoon in the back yard? Now there are at least 5. It's a raccoon family sniffing around my yard! 😍

Timespinner stuff also arrived today.