Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

BTW, threatening to sue former clients when there's absolutely no plausible basis for a suit is a great way to convince someone that they made the right choice to no longer do business with you.

I don't know how this is in parts of the country where there are more places with espresso machines, but in my corner of Wisconsin service techs start out great and then go insane. I had one who just suddenly dropped completely off the map (fled the country it turns out) without telling any of their clients. Another one started messing with brewer settings inappropriately. There was the one who threatened to sue me when I told him we no longer required his services.

Had a conversation with the company doing the espresso machine installations to make sure those can go smoothly when the machines arrive. They seem sane so far, which is frankly a nice change of pace.

(the AP and internal services came up much faster, but the connection out to the rest of the Internet took a little longer)

Had a brief power outage at the shop. That didn't interrupt anything that could potentially be dangerous, but did knock everybody off WiFi for a few minutes.

The cat had a lot of news to report when I got home.

After a good run of being sane, one of my suppliers has gone back to unpacking manufacturer case packs and shipping out product in 3x the packaging it needs.

Apparently birdsite got rid of the fail whale and people want it back. I'd like to remind everybody of the original fail whale. https://bubblebobble.fandom.com/wiki/Skel-Monsta

Everybody tastes all the roasts.

So the way this is going to go is we'll start by breaking into 8 groups. Each group goes to a different coffee roasting machine and roasts a coffee in a couple different ways (each group gets different roasting plans). Then we'll go to the classroom, I'll do a little lecture while the first cupping flight is set up, and we'll taste a range from light to dark roasts. Then more lecture, then tasting timing variations (what happens if you use more or less time in key ranges), then Q&A/discussion.

I now have all the information I need to reorganize the class I'm teaching at an event next month. I've been in a holding pattern waiting to find out if if I can get a screen set up in a cupping room or if the lecture and tasting portions need to happen in different rooms.

social.typica.us is still up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414407

So what's with the uptick in people with programming experience leaving resumes for my barista job openings?

Also a little sad that I can recognize some of those randomly generated slugs for my stuff that some platforms use.

It's always nice when I see other people recommending stuff I made, especially when it's at the top of the list.

Morning cat