Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Decided to try a different data structure design for a bit of code I've been working on lately. The original design is kind of a pain to work with and I think the new design might be better.

Someone texted me a thumbs up emoji and my phone decided to animate assorted monster hands giving a thumbs up around the reply. I'm pretty sure some of the depicted monster hands shouldn't have thumbs.

Have you been hugged by a cat today?

If you're sending me a survey about how you did before you've shipped my order, do you really want me to answer that?

My bottle supplier said they won't have lids for my bottles until the middle of December so I've found my supplier's supplier and ordered from them instead. Why they didn't think they could just order more lids and fill my order that way is a mystery to me, but it's better to have an extra large supply of lids than to not be able to sell chai during the Christmas season.

I've recently learned that a cheap hotel I liked staying at a couple times that failed during COVID is open under new ownership now and is still pretty cheap for what you get (mixed but mostly positive feelings on the renovations they've put in). I'm keeping it in mind because if Trump gets elected I want to make sure that I'm out of the country for at least his first week in office just to be out of the way of day 1 as a dictator or giving the police a really violent day.

I will never understand why Star Trek's corporate overlords keep trying to prevent people from watching Star Trek despite decades of evidence that the shows do better when they get out of the way and let the shows find their audience.

The cat complained at me when I got home from work because she wasn't awake yet when I left so she missed out on her morning cuddles.

Today I've been redesigning some stuff and I'm trying to hit the right defaults as on the one hand the new design could be a lot more powerful than the old design and on the other hand I don't want people to need to read the manual for the most common use cases.

Last night I set a new personal best for damage per screenshot with Qiqi (personal best for that particular character, not overall). I think I might be able to squeeze out a bigger hit with better play.

Disappointed to discover that my box of ice cream sandwiches was empty.

I saw on the calendar that National Bosses Day is coming up and as a boss I just have to wonder WTF do we need that for?

This is also something they can take with them if they decide to seek employment elsewhere.

Two employees recently passed their food safety manager exams for the first time. That's a cert that the business covers for employees who want that even if it's not required for their role. The shop is required to have at least one person with that cert, but my view is that it's better for more people on staff to know the relevant food safety regulations.

Had some thoughts on practical mitigations for a common Typica feature request that I've resisted trying to implement on account of it generally not being possible and in some cases veering into the territory of unreliable and unsafe. Still not 100% on the UI for this but I've put some thoughts on the roadmap because I think I can do something useful on that front which will be better than just ignoring the problem.

My yogurt got crushed somehow so I'm eating that early so it doesn't go bad.

New coffees have been added to the web site.

There's a cat on my lap.

One thing that I will say is that the attribute he identified as what he wanted to cut out is completely absent in the coffee.

Auto drip was not one of the recommended brewing methods for the coffee so I'll probably use the last of it on an aeropress which is on the recommended brewing method list.