Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Just got a call from work to see if a customer request was possible. They wanted a receipt from when they were there over a week ago and they paid in cash. It's a coffee shop and one that actively avoids tech that lets the company act like a creepy stalker, so no, if someone wants a receipt they need to remember to take it.

At least what they're sending is almost the right thing (but just wrong enough to be completely useless to me), not like that time I ordered some resistors and ended up with a life time supply of USB cables instead.

The replacement product for an earlier mis-pick arrived and it's exactly the same wrong thing they sent before. I assume that the wrong thing is stocked in the bin and the pickers are told grab thing from bin and don't have time to actually look at the thing to verify that it's the right thing. Maybe they'll send someone to check the bin now that they've sent the same wrong thing twice?

Got an answering robot while trying to place an order, but part way toward its message it interrupted itself to say "goodbye" as a human picked up to take the order. I thought the goodbye was a nice touch, if somewhat confusing in the moment.

Today's mail included a catalog of mostly stuff you'd use for safely handling or cleaning up hazardous materials. I'd rather just not have hazmats here.

I had forgotten just how much I despise using IDEs, especially ones that try to cram everything into the same window.

There are also a couple new apps that I assume would be less obnoxious for me to just write what I want than trawl through an app store trying to find something that's not awful.

Turned developer options on in the new phone (most of the options are still set to off, but they're visible in settings now). Don't have the time to deal with it right now, but I should update some of my old code that somehow still handles my particular use cases better than the apps it came with.

There's a cat on my chest.

It's a cat.

Tooted from the old phone which of course continues to work fine for anything that isn't a phone call.

New phone arrived and can confirm rings when called. Made a point of checking that it takes the same size SIM as the old one so it was just pop the card out of the old one and into the new one.

(What I'd really love to see is an updated version of the Nokia N900. I got 2 of those and didn't put phone service on either, but the combination of stylus, slide out keyboard, and my own custom software made it great for things like capturing observations at the cupping table.)

Ordered a replacement phone. I hate phones, but it's not so bad if I think of them as tiny personal computers. Of course that means anything that tries too hard to get in the way of me putting software that I write for myself onto my own device is a non-starter. Picked a pretty green one.

Fire inspectors inspected. They didn't mention anything about the fire I was using at the time so I assume everything was fine.

3d printer broke. It's a pretty old one so now I need to decide if I want to attempt repairing it, get a replacement, or both.

Cheese has been acquired.

I'm going to eat cheese.

One thing that's particularly interesting is that I already have a sensor hooked up on my roaster and full access to modify the code interpreting that data such that I might be able to apply some of their results to live feedback during the roast. I don't have the time to work on that immediately, but hopefully later this year I can do something with that. No guarantee that work will turn into something useful.

Saw a preliminary write up on some research that I was asked for feedback regarding last year. Was glad to see that the researchers have taken my advice.