Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Previously I just used a library on Windows which was also kind of nasty to work with (it exposed some truly strange implementation choices), but if I just implement the communications protocol myself it should just work everywhere including on platforms that were never officially supported by the hardware.

Messed with a bit of obsolete hardware and hey, Linux support looks to have gotten better. I hate the device's communications protocol, but I should be able to implement something that talks to it without much trouble.

"finished" the feature I was working on. It's still ugly and has terrible discoverability, but I can start using it now while fixing those issues.

Added better debugging output.

May have overdone it on the spicy with dinner, but that's what cheesecake is for right?

Got most of a feature working. It looks terrible and there's a little more to do on making it do the whole thing that I want it to do, but enough is done that I know that what I'm doing is going to work.

The cat thinks it's very important that she sit in my lap right now.

Another chunk of money as thanks for some free software I wrote came in today. I'll want to send a personal thank you email later.

Today has been one of those I start on doing something and that's the cue for everybody to have some weird thing they need my help to deal with. This is fine and I've at least been able to stub out what I want to work on so once I have time to come back to that I might have some aid to memory present.

The cat is in the mood for hugs tonight.

I think it's for more than came in for the entirety of last year.

Just got a very generous donation toward work on some software as thanks for some emailed tech support.

The cat knocked over some old lab equipment. The stuff is fine, the cat is fine, and she's starting to calm down from the excitement. I should really pack that back up until I need it again.

Ordered more coffee. I'll need to place another order from a different supplier in about 2 or 3 weeks.

Tasting a test batch of what's going to be the next Decaf French Roast. I'm out of the coffee I was using for this previously and I knew from previous work that a similar roasting plan would result in something rather lacking. So instead I went for what I'm pretty sure is the fastest I've ever pushed to that roast level, though a fair amount of that is front loaded as it's a relatively dry decaf.

#cat

Had an issue on the laptop today. Turns out the problem was DNS because of course it was. Temporary fix is in place, but I'll have to go looking for the real solution later.

The cat is currently fascinated with the shadows cast by outdoor bird activity.

So far today I've gotten photos of small dogs and giant coffee roasters. I'll call that a good start.

Trimmed the beard. My face now has less protection from the cat but it needed to be done.