Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

This morning's coding session was heavy on bit level operations. The hardware documentation is suggestive (without going so far as actually having coding advice) of just using a lookup table for the command strings, but creating these directly by ORing together the right binary literals saves about 60 bytes in executable size and reads a little more clearly to me. (Clearly the engineer who designed the comms protocol thought about this approach and it just wasn''t put in the documentation)

Trying to buy more coffee. There'll have to be a price increase on the next Guatemalan coffee we bring in and part of that is the 10% tariff (which means a more than 10% increase that needs to be passed along since coffee weighs less after I roast it) while another part of that is just that the coffee is more expensive than usual.

Replaced some networking gear at work. Some strange choices for defaults on the new hardware made this take longer than it should have (and the printers needed extra convincing to go along with the change but that one I'm going to blame on the printers).