Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Shop's web site updated with the most recent arrivals. Mailing list post will go out a little later tonight.

If customer comments are anything to go on, skulls are coming back into fashion. I don't think most people commenting on it have realized that it's a coffee shirt.

One of my roaster friends mentioned me near the end of an interview that could use some more views. Sadly, I'm sold out of the coffee he mentioned. Good discussion with someone I've had the pleasure of working with on several education projects over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUzf_kK1yH4

Bot traffic still massively exceeds real humans, but at least it's down to a level where I'm not getting alarms about it.

While some of the addresses have timed out of the ban list, that peaked just shy of 3000.

I've had a few ideas about different approaches to a live logging mode that I might add to the program later to make things a bit more convenient, but as things are now it's far from the worst option out there.

New article up on CRUCS about my experience using this at CRG Retreat. While I didn't have this use case in mind at all while developing the software, CRUCS makes a pretty decent manual logging app if you don't have your machine set up to log data automatically (or if you're using someone else's roaster and don't have a good way to exfiltrate your own data).

https://crucs.net/articles/using_crucs_at_crg_retreat/

Definitely made the right call skewing my pulls light on the new Tanzanian coffee. It's inoffensive as a medium roast, kind of funky in a bad way as a dark roast, but there's a nice broad range of light roasts that were quite good. It'll probably end up being the lightest thing on my shelf at least for a little while.

Yesterday's production test batches turned out nicely. I'm reserving the coffee to use to sort out blend recipes, but hopefully those coffees can hit the shelf tomorrow. Still have another 36 cups to taste before deciding on how I want to roast the new decaf arrivals.

Ban list is up to 2376. The overly aggressive bots are still showing up with new addresses, but the rate those are getting through is a lot slower now, almost approaching what would have been reasonable behavior that wouldn't have prompted me to make a filter to ban them on sight.

Ban list up to 1975.

Almost (but not quite) all of those are IPv4 addresses, so if we really needed to claw back some allocations to get more productive use of the space, these would be a good start IMO.

Banned bot count is now up to 1822.

Roasted product development batches of new coffee arrivals. I now have 63 distinct cups of coffee to taste and evaluate.

1704 blocked

Any bets on how high the ban count will get by the end of the day?

Still have no idea why TikTok would care about my little Gitea server at all, but if anybody there is upset that I'm banning their bot, just check out the repos like a normal person.

1601 blocked

As of morning, bot traffic is massively reduced with 1517 IP addresses blocked. There's still a very slow trickle getting insta-banned, but it looks like I don't have to add anything else to the filter for now.

>400 blocked. The bots have to run out of addresses eventually, right?