Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat has seen me sitting down for dinner and would like to know if I wouldn't rather be petting the cat.

Has Chief Quimby ever considered just not bringing a self-destructing message?

I have a tracking number for the next couple thousand pounds of coffee coming in, but the person who usually helps me stack the bags back up might be on vacation when that arrives. I've got enough space that I can do smaller stacks by myself.

Tonight is large headache and cat petting.

Printed out and made notes on a pile of reference materials for what I want to work on tomorrow. I won't finish that work tomorrow, but I have the rough shape of what I want to try first pretty much figured out and I can at least see if that idea is a horrible mistake before putting too much effort into it.

I'd like to see her do better.

Cat turning to look at me judgmentally when I lose my combo in a rhythm game.

Decided to plug in the last version of the code written before going to sleep instead of testing out the intermediate version. I've gone from a choice of correct functioning at 100% of a core or excessive latency at 12% down to both fast and correct with the new code not profiling as significant and the fan not spinning up. I'll take the win.

There were a couple things about the new code that were bugging me so I reorganized it again. Pretty sure I've gotten it down to as correct and efficient as possible, but I still need to wait until I get into the shop to test that. Hoping to see much lower CPU utilization.

Took another crack at some code I wasn't happy with. I can't test it until tomorrow, but the new code should behave nicer, is significantly smaller, and is a lot easier to read.

Particularly glad to be bringing back a particular coffee I like from El Salvador. Should have that available some time week after next.

Ordered more coffee. Everything came in a little under where I estimated prices. We're only talking 1 to a few cents per pound, but when you're buying a couple thousand pounds it adds up.

Now that I've kludged around all the new issues I've been looking at and taken a good look to see which changes I could remove, I'm left with the conclusion that not my code just changed in a way that my code was not compatible with and there are things that just need to be inexplicably different to get the right behavior. I hate that conclusion, but I think I've ruled out the other possibilities.

Found the bug, but this leaves me with the mystery of how the code ever previously worked correctly.

The cat's insistence on sitting on me continued this morning. I had to ooze her off me when I woke up and she was back in my lap during breakfast instead of eating her own breakfast.

Cat says don't sleep, just pet the cat.

Cat wants chin rubs.

Kludged a fix for one problem, failed to solve a probably related one. Pretty sure the real problem is in not my code.

The cat thinks I should change my working position to make more space for the cat to sit in my lap. I suppose it's fine to accommodate that request.

Decided to get a pizza since I'll be at work until late enough that it will become difficult to acquire food.