Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Was going to mess around on a synth patch I've been working on lately but one of the cases wouldn't power on properly. It worked fine last night, but I guess I've got a bit too much power draw happening there. Not surprised as it's my cheapest case and there's a few things in there with higher power requirements. Taking one module out got it powering back up again but I decided to just move everything into a case with a beefier power supply.

Production test roast of the new decaf Peru turned out nicely. Doesn't taste like a decaf. It's also retailing $7 per pound more than it was the last time I sold a decaf Peru (granted, it's been a while, it's only $2 higher than our most expensive decafs otherwise currently on the shelf). Unfortunately, it does look like as I sell out of our current stock the replacements are going to cost more. I'm still buying less so that if prices come down I'll be in a better position to lower mine too.

There's probably a reason why mail servers don't have a way to temporarily whitelist receiving replies to messages they've sent but someone should probably work on that given the gross and intentional incompetence on display among blacklist providers.

Evaluating the new decaf Peruvian coffee that was delivered yesterday. This is one of those that's hard to screw up as it's delicious across a broad range of roast levels and the changes are somewhat subtle. If you're the sort who has strong preferences for a particular roast level you can probably just roast it like that and expect to get something nice as a finished product and if you're not that skilled at controlling the roast you can be off by a lot and still end up close in the cup.

It turns out that a bug I thought was resolved is not. At this point I'm probably going to have to resort to entirely too much logging to get to the bottom of this.

Today's coffee delivery has arrived. I've also placed an order for a couple boxes of this one to arrive soon. I'll have to charge a lot for it and I expect it to sell out pretty fast. https://royalcoffee.com/product/3427097000044428849/

More Costa Rican coffee got delivered today. It's the same lot as the previous delivery so no need to rework the roast profiles there.

Replied to an email that seemed to be legit, but their mail server said unknown user so they're going to need to fix that if they expect replies.

Needed to rework a couple blends now that I'm out of coffee from Sulawesi. The next Breakfast Blend might be my new favorite among the blends. It's using coffees from Mexico, Guatemala, Sumatra, and Papua New Guinea (watch for a roast on date later than today).

Today's coding was mostly just reading documentation that's a bit too diffuse and figuring out what all goes where to make the computer do what I want. There are examples out there that are all not quite what I need, but now that I've sorted out the foundation there's a lot that I can build on top of today's work. I could have taken a few different approaches and not had to go through the hassle, but the end result of today's work seems like it'll be nicer to work with in the long run.

Two coffee orders have been placed and the rest of what I want to buy will have to wait a little.

One coffee order has been placed.

Sorting out coffee purchases. I probably need to spend about $10K now-ish and then more next month. Slim pickings on decafs right now, but there are some interesting things that I think would be fun to bring in as limited edition coffees. I'll need to convince my sister that that's a good idea so we'll see how that goes.

Spent some time automating some server admin stuff.

Found laptop screw but this one doesn't seem to be missing one.