Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

No clue how my cell number ended up on the Republican text spam lists but I'm doing report as spam and blocking all of that. (I'd do the same for Dems if they were spamming me but at the moment it's all GOP, scammy lenders, and roofers who are getting plonked)

Today is not a good day for dealing with the outside world. Thankfully, I have tomorrow scheduled as a work from home day.

I voted after work. It looks like we're on to a new sticker design and the poll workers were very big into thanking people for voting. Not a big turn out. Only one thing on the ballot had a choice.

This doesn't count several years before I started tracking this in a database.

Looking over some reports it seems that over the past 2 decades I've spent over $1M on coffee.

Reinflated my mother's bicycle tires.

Today's work was good. I've unblocked a lot of stuff now that'll just be straightforward slogging it out, but that should be a ton of highly visible progress.

Today's coding has mostly been exploratory. I don't know if the approach I've worked out is how I want to handle the feature in the long run but I've confirmed that it's an approach that can definitely be made to work.

Successfully debugged a feature. Will need to go back and clean up the mess I made trying to figure out what was going wrong.

Had to tell someone that I can't help them with the coffee order that went to the wrong address because they didn't actually order it from us. Not sure how they got our phone number for that, but I do like the cool pictures of dogs on the packaging of the company they seem to have ordered from and hope they can get that resolved.

Got in some programming time while the weather crew was here. Added a configuration option and behavior I recently noticed was needed and a purely visual change that probably nobody else would have cared about.

None of the morning customers have expressed condolences regarding today's television appearance so I guess things went fine.

Probably only interesting for people in SE Wisconsin, but TMJ4 is sending a crew out to report the weather from my shop this morning. If anybody wants to see that, you can watch from 5-7AM at https://www.tmj4.com/live

I wish I remembered where I put my mallet.

A couple people have asked if I'm going to a trade show in a couple weeks. I'm not (unless someone else wants to sponsor the trip) but I should probably start getting out to those again. It's a good opportunity to meet up with people using my software, let them know what I've been working on, find out what's working/not working for them.

Shipping label generation was failing on me when trying to ship today's orders. According to the error messages coming back, two fields that were previously optional are apparently now required. Double checking against the API docs, these are not labeled as required for USPS. So that's a little annoying. Thankfully, I can edit database records to put in the required information and update the server side code to make sure the data gets there for future orders, but it's late and I want to go home

Lots of orders to roast today.

Apparently I'll be on television next week. Need to set an alarm to wake up for that.

Presumably there's something within Qt causing the button to lose that visual indication which isn't getting undone, leading me to think it's a Qt bug, but for my program at least the workaround is tiny and not worth trying to figure out a patch. Problem observed on Linux/X11 in Qt 6.10.

The solution is to add a changeEvent override which calls update() on an ActivationChange event.