Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Today's work on the web shop was successfully implementing taking the customer's money. This is a manual step (push a button that's only available if the customer hasn't already been charged for the order) that should be done once the order is packed in its box. Next up is generating the shipping label.

It looks like another programming student has become a regular at the shop. His screen often looks lisp-y.

Three Cats in Japan Have a Closet Full of Custom-Made Hats Felted From Their Shedded Fur | Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/cat-hats/

pizza night

Today's featured puzzle is Kitty Garden. First you assemble the puzzle, then you search for all 85 cats hidden in the picture.

Another highly scientific poll:

There was an hour scheduled for my class run through today but my station instructors are all crazy experienced and I slammed it out in half that.

re last boost: I'm posting this from KDE running on Pop!_OS

Ah the joys of eating while bearded. You get to look in the mirror and ask yourself, "how did THAT get stuck THERE?"

My class presentation keeps getting longer. Last year I had 37 slides (including event branding filler). In April it was up to 40. Now it's up to 45.

The last time I did a project that hooked into a third party API that speaks JSON I used rapidjson to pull data out of the responses. This time around I'm just shoving the responses into a jsonb column in PostgreSQL and querying that. There are benefits to either approach. Mostly I just wanted to try something different and having 1 fewer dependency to track isn't a bad thing.