Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Sent everybody the roasting data for the workshop I'm teaching online on Friday. What I did with that is I took the data logged in Typica, loaded that into a custom program that gives me a more flexible graph that I can programatically annotate as seen in many of my videos. Save a PNG of the marked up graph, use XeLaTeX to arrange the name of the batch, percent mass loss, the graph, and a table showing time/temp/rate every 30 seconds (plus the last measurement).

Got to watch a giant black cat wander through the yard while I was washing dishes.

The cat thinks I should stop eating dinner and pet the cat instead.

Printed a bunch of CDC posters for the shop. There's one supposedly for middle schools that's pretty scary.

New coffee is available through the web site now.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

I'm thinking $20 is the right price for my shop.

Decided to take a look at what other shops were selling the coffee I'm currently tasting for and wow, it's all over the place. The first four roasters I checked had prices (different bag sizes, adjusted to per pound rates) ranging from $18.50 for something that's way too light (opinion) for this coffee up through $40, which seems a bit insane given that I know what they're paying for this. I won't be pricing it the cheapest, but it'll be on the lower side of that range for both medium and dark.

The new coffees from Yemen and Java along with Mocha Java Blend are now available to buy on the web site. Hopefully I'll be able to add the new coffee from Costa Rica tomorrow.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Silver polished. Figured I may as well just do it while I was thinking of it.

While I'm not one to bring my own spoons to events (I'll use whatever is at the venue), for cupping in my shop I only use gift spoons. Which reminds me, I should make some time to polish the silver ones soon.

These are the cupping spoons I used today. One has a black bowl and features the Coffee Roasters Guild logo. The other is from the Coffee Championships event in Knoxville. Both spoons were gifts.

The person who reported a bug in my code yesterday has let me know that the fix I sent (also yesterday) corrects the problem. It's always nice to get that confirmation.

It's a 2 cat day.

I get to eat fish soon.

One of the nice things about so much of Typica being defined by its runtime configuration is that it's almost always possible to just send someone a text file they can drop in the right place to add features or fix bugs in the default configuration. No recompiling required.

Got a bug report today. Fixed the bug. Sent the fix to the person who reported the bug. Surprised this one took as long to get reported as it did.

It looks like I'm getting a full nickel from Amazon this month. I'm still impressed that they send out such tiny payments every month (sometimes 4 payments of as little as 1 cent each depending on the regions people watch my videos in which they never lump together into a single transfer).

I was a little worried about having something at such a high price, but it took less than a day to sell out my first production batch of Mocha Java Blend. Will make more tonight.