Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Someone just walked into the shop without a mask. We asked if they had one, offered to give them one of ours, but instead he said, "lost another sale," and walked out. Dude, it's a city ordinance. Stop trying to break the law here.

A bunch of people came out to the shop this morning to present the business with a giant novelty check (and cash since nobody will accept giant novelty checks as a deposit). Kind of glad I missed it because nobody needs to be taking pictures of me with my eye swollen with cat allergy.

Github calls their mascot octocat, but it doesn't have 8 of anything. They should call it catsquid instead.

I should order a pizza.

Continuing to do the YouTube ad revenue paying the server bills for my PeerTube thing.

I should see about updating my driving music playlist in preparation for the 15 hour drive.

Have my reservations for my next trip sorted out. I'll be teaching a coffee roasting class at a trade event in New Orleans next month. Organizers are doing better than I expected with the covid safety stuff, but I also understand anybody not wanting to go to something like that now.

Tested the code that I wrote yesterday. It all worked with the exception of one thing where I missed an & in a place where the type system can't help me for legal reasons.

Road construction crew has one of my empty green coffee sacks hanging off the side of their truck today. It looks like they're installing the curb today. Hope they don't pick Friday or Saturday to shut us down for sidewalk installation.

Massive construction related dust storm in front of the shop. Recommend protective goggles if you're going to try getting to any of the businesses on the street.

Found a cardboard box that works very well as a lap desk. Large enough to hold both my laptop and a full size keyboard (since laptop keyboards don't last as long as the rest of the laptop), rigid enough that I can move it easily, good working height.

Didn't completely finish the code I was working on today, but I got a good portion of it done and what I do have seems to be working correctly. Might pick it back up after dinner while there's a chance the design will still be in my head. I'm continuing the trend of the new code being simpler than what I wrote the last time I solved this problem so still feeling pretty good about this rewrite.

New power adapter for an old laptop arrived today. That fixed the power issue that developed a few days ago. Glad I could keep that running with a cheap fix.

The cat says it's time for hugs.

Today was a highly productive day of coding. It's a rewrite of stuff I'd previously written, but now there are relevant language and library features that didn't exist the first time around so I can write it smaller, simpler, and with fewer hacky workarounds.

me: *tries to play Tetris*
cat: *moves head between human and screen*