Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

One of today's emails trying to sell me something I'm not buying included a product photo with a big finger in frame. I'm surprised they chose to use that one.

I'm going to try to replicate the first and last cups from the middle row. The lighter one is excellent on its own while the darker is potentially more versatile in blends.

Time for coffee.

My last coffee delivery for the year arrived while I was out running errands. I hadn't gotten the PRO# to track this and see that it was getting delivered today, otherwise I would have waited for it, but staff handled it perfectly without me so I'll be able to get on with product development right away.

Restocked my rice supply.

My mother wanted a microwave for Christmas this year so we got that sorted out today. My favorite feature of her new device is that if you don't set the clock (she already has 2 clocks in the room that she's not using) it doesn't show anything on the display. No flashing 12:00, no lights (and certainly no blinking lights).

Personally, I will always prefer a thoughtfully created purpose built interface for anything work related even if only for the massive feature discoverability benefits (rather than asking if the system can do something and then get a lie in reply).

Got an email advertising AI features and I'm looking at their examples and one can be done with a shell script. The next one is a trivial front end feature. The third one is a SQL query (or an automated report built around one). It would take me longer to think up the natural language prompts than to just click on the right thing in a well considered interface built around their pre-AI API. Not sure how their customers would be using them without already having a better integration than this.

I still have a bit of a wait on the Sumatran coffee since we didn't get any of that, but the last batch I roasted of that was on the larger side so hopefully there isn't too much disruption there.