Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Hoping to have my shop's site able to take orders soon. I'm being stupid and writing that functionality from scratch instead of just paying for something that works mainly because 1) I enjoy writing software and 2) I have no idea if anybody will even want to place orders through my site and don't want something that's going to be an ongoing cost for no sales.

Got an email letting me know my API calls are working as designed, which seems like a strange email to get, but yeah, I agree. The errors are all proper errors and the successes are returning expected results and so far everything is running in test mode and I'm reading the responses.

Did I find a bug in libpq or did I just do something stupid? It's probably the latter, but it's something to investigate later. In the meantime I'm using a completely ridiculous equivalent transformation that avoids the problematic character.

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Bakery sold me the wrong kringle today. I ordered cherry cheese, the bag was marked cherry cheese, the contents were just cheese, no cherry.

There are a couple new people and a couple more new hires who will be starting a little later so I'll be spending more time at the bar helping people learn the job before heading to GA mid-August to teach coffee roasting classes.

She'll get more practice with those skills today with lots of supervision then tomorrow it'll be review and moving on to doing espresso and milk at the same time and some basic drink assembly. She's picking the skills up quickly so far and recognizing when things aren't going right, which is a good sign.

Another new person started today. Did an hour of espresso training that combines some hands on making the espresso and steaming the milk with some this is what all the parts are and some overly technical details that I don't expect people to remember immediately.

The cat has decided that I no longer require the use of my right hand.

Cat wants belly rubs

Vague spam is vague

Took a break from making features in the code I've been working on over the past few days to making the output look not so terrible. Now that I've got that done I'll feel better about moving on to the next bit of required functionality.

Despite the early lead of mercat, purrmaid took 60% of the vote.

Had a dream that I was robbing a bank, but it was some kind of weird bank for dog people and I wanted all the bones.