Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Continuing to make progress with the Typica 2.0 rewrite. Today I'm working on the Batch Details report. To start with this is just minor enhancements over what was in 1.9.1, but I've left myself some notes on what I think could be significant improvements some time after a preview release.

Went back to work on a half finished feature where the first way I wanted to implement it turned out to be non-viable. Deleted the files with code that was never going to work and replaced them with code that is confirmed to be doing what I wanted.

If FedEx really lost a package they wouldn't be sending me a notification from a domain ending in .lol

I suspect that the average age of people using my software skews older anyway (this is at least true of people who have told me in person that they appreciate what I'm doing) so they might even find such things more familiar/intuitive than what I did last time around.

Thinking about UI changes for features that still need to be ported over to a new code base (if I have to rewrite anyway, this is the time to make such changes) and I'm thinking that UI patterns I first encountered on 1980s era Macs might be a more appropriate choice sometimes. Definitely not saying they got everything right, but there's some stuff that's fallen out of favor that maybe shouldn't have. It won't take me long to mock something up and I can decide if I hate it after that.

No cat sightings, but lots of small birds.

Good coding day today. Finished up a feature, tested everything, simplified, retested.

Today there was a big cat hanging out in the back yard.

Helped my mother with some Computering. I'm assuming there are settings I don't know about to tone down all the Apple trying to be helpful but really just getting in the way crap, but it makes me sad. They used to have taste. At least I was able to make it so she'll have an easier time with printing stuff now, but I probably need to spend more time on a current Mac to get more familiar with what settings need changing to make things easier for her. I'll also need that for upcoming sw releases.