Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

There's a cat on my lap.

First task of today was finishing up some work on blend adjustments. First one was just checking that a direct substitution of the new coffee into the old recipe works and it did. The espresso blend was going to be a bit more work. Took 4 attempts to get the flavor profile where I wanted that, but I'm very happy with the result there.

Today was excessively and unnecessarily stressful, but on the plus side I did get to see two good dogs out for walks.

There''s been a big uptick in people placing orders and then calling us to make sure we got their order (sometimes as soon as an hour after the order was placed).

If the web site told you the order got placed, the order got placed.

Also, please learn to check your spam folders and if Microsoft is running your mail account it's probably their fault that you're not seeing expected emails (Hotmail gave up on competence a long time ago and I can't fix your choice to use a crap provider).

Not that I plan on uploading any of this and pretending that I'm any kind of visual artist, but I recently had a play with diffusion models (that run surprisingly decently on my old laptop) and as near as I can tell they're good for generating various types of cosmic horrors and social media profile pictures of anime catgirls.

Stranger, I was able to look up their most recent meter reading and that looks right so they know I used electricity. I should probably just send an email to customer service and see if they can fix my bill.

I think I broke the power company's virtual assistant by asking if it can charge me more (they forgot to charge me for electricity this month)

It's 1AM. Have you hugged a cat yet today?

I definitely have been using electricity.

Looking at the new energy bill, it looks like they just straight up forgot to charge me for electricity?

Energy bill just arrived and I think I need to look into that because it's way smaller than expected.

Some coffees have distinct cuts where at certain points you get a big, distinct change in cup character, so you have maybe 2-4 categories of general characteristics you can aim for and manipulate the roast within, and those are interesting in their own way, but here it's really all just levels and intensities shifting and deciding what kind of balance you want.

Today I'm working on my latest arrival from Brazil and the initial exploratory roast would make for a pretty interesting training exercise. I have 9 cups, each representing a different potential end point ranging from start of 2nd crack through to a bit beyond what I'd like as a French Roast, and within that, the core characteristics of the coffee are remarkably stable, which makes it a good example of what you can generally expect as coffee gets darker.

Odds are good that Typica 2.0 will have a significant change to its main serialization. Most won't have to care about the difference, but it's both a significant reduction in file size and nicer for anybody doing by hand edits (though now that CRUCS exists, nobody should be doing that). Main downside I can think of is it'll break any XSLT workflows, but as far as I know, nobody is doing that. Might be worth asking the mailing list if it'll affect anybody anyway.

Today might be a good day to order a pizza.

The cat wants to help me write software tonight.

Finally landed a new personal best for damage with Qiqi's elemental skill. Was hoping to push it a bit higher than I did, but it's still a significant improvement over my previous best. Still need to review the recording to pull out an exact number, but it's substantially over 200K vs my old personal best of 174K.

The voices on the Deep Space Nine pinball table all sound wrong.

Would be nice if whoever keeps trying to leave fax spam on my voicemail would realize that this isn't a thing that's going to work.

Today's grocery store find: trash bags were on sale. Got a year supply for only $1 more than a box with a third fewer bags.