Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Last night I finished up a first play through of Deemo Reborn. Overall I enjoyed that. The puzzles were pretty easy for the most part and some of the ones that could have been less obvious provide alternative clues if you're attentive. The rhythm game sections didn't block me from making progress, though that likely will stop me from getting the platinum trophy. Haven't tried the VR mode yet.

It looks like I have a couple repeat attendees in my next class. I'm hoping that's more of someone in a company deciding that this was a useful training experience and sharing that with other people they work with and just re-using the same attendee information and not people failing to realize that they signed up for the same class twice. It's not uncommon for people to decide they want to re-take a class from me, but that's usually 4-12 months later, not 1 month later.

Video game reviews, but they're based on how a cat reacts to the game.

Today I shipped a box of coffee to Hawaii. Was surprised to see that USPS priority mail claims it only takes 3 days to get it there.

Last caller sounded very disappointed to hear that we don't do local delivery.

Today I got a couple cheap signal generators so I can add more hardware support to Typica without needing to rip apart a coffee roaster. I'd rather always work with real systems because those often have quirks that can be coded around if you know they exist, but that's not always practical.

Flying toasters should make a comeback.

Needed to take a break from the roasting to take a box to the post office since they no longer have the lobby open 24 hours a day. I'll have to stay late to get the work finished.

There's still a little time to get in on that. Participants in the US get a quarter pound each of 10 different roasts of the same coffee (5 different ending temperatures, 2 different roasting plans to get to each of those end points) plus a pound of the same coffee unroasted so the price is surprisingly low even if you just wanted to drink the coffees and had no interest in my lecture. (this is what sponsors are for, thanks Pacific Barista Series)

Today I'm roasting the coffees for my next online workshop. It's a smaller group this time so I'm doing smaller batches.

https://www.bigmarker.com/specialty-coffee-association/Roasting-Styles-Exploration3-2020-06-26-12-00-pm

Small coffee order placed today, this time only for a little over 500 pounds.

Cracked open another bottle of wine from that mixed case I got with the coupon from the office store. This one has a fancy looking cat on the label, but I won't be sharing it with the cat.

No estimate on when we might have the half gallon bottles back out for sale. I suspect they're all getting filled up with hand sanitizer.

Today we filled up the last of our quart chai concentrate bottles. Fortunately, our supplier has more of those available now, but still no half gallons and also no lids. On our last shipment we got lids for the backordered quart and half gallon bottles. Supply on the shelf is still pretty good, and the bottles are local so they get here fast, but it's possible that we could run out if people have a run on quarts. We still have the gallons out for sale which should help avoid that.

This morning the cat found some dust to roll around in and then was sad that her fur was covered in dust.

Visiting Mom's cat. She doesn't want me to do anything. She just wants to lick my pants and roll around on my legs.

Night cat

Anyway, that update won't be released until after I've finished with the book launch and I'll need to assess if there are other bug fixes or new features that I want to make sure get into that as long as I'm doing the work to put out a new release. I was kind of hoping that I could have retired the 1.x code base by now.

That works fine if your control panel was designed with that use case in mind and if you have good gas service to your facility, but a lot of coffee roasters operate with neither of those being quite true, so getting a real measurement off the gauge would be an improvement for them and should be an easier feature to retrofit for most.

While I'm adding current input support for something entirely different (which I still can't talk about because I don't want to wreck another company's product launch), that's probably the easiest way for a lot of roasters to add fuel logging by replacing the manometer with something that operates a current loop. The way I'm logging this on one of my machines now without that is with a dual pot driving both an electric valve on one circuit and a 0-10V logging device on a separate circuit.