Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Shipping label generation is done. I'll need to make some adjustments to handle larger orders at some point, but for now I want to move on to sending the customer receipt/tracking number and closing out the order in the system.

Ah, figured it out. Also figured out it's not worth fixing right now.

Wrote a test SQL query and sometimes it generates just the one row of output as expected while other times it generates 3 completely identical rows instead of just the expected 1. Why? I'm not sure yet.

The approach that I wanted to take for generating shipping labels isn't going to work. The rates generated for the customer time out after 24 hours and can no longer be used to generate a shipping label. Good thing I wrote the code slowly enough to trigger that failure mode.

It's official.

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.

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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?"