Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Also spent some time playing the Final Fantasy Resonance demo and as someone who just has not been able to get into later entries in this series (my personal peaks are at 6 and 9), I am tentatively optimistic about this one. I want to get a little farther in the demo but I'm probably buying this one.

Knocked out the to do list item that I've been putting off because it's just a boring slog, but it was the most urgent blocker so it had to get done. Tested that the behavior is correct and then made one tiny improvement that probably nobody else will notice but I will be happier for having done it.

I shouldn't spend the time on it now but I'm kind of tempted to do some kind of write up on stuff that I tried but ultimately decided to not use in Typica and why those decisions were made.

The porting work involved there was pretty minimal and I think there's some other stuff I can go ahead and delete now as well.

I didn't have it marked as a preview release blocker, but after finishing up a report I left half finished yesterday I did go ahead and make all the changes needed to remove a dependency I wanted to get rid of. Now all the reports are produced and displayed in a uniform way that requires a little less boilerplate, isn't showing spurious warnings on stderr, and generally doesn't have quite so many sharp edges to beware of. It is a bit slower to display when requesting hundreds of pages at once.

This is excellent news and I hope I can do the same over on the Windows side. The more I can move into the "just works" category, the better.

Doing some prep work for a new Mac build and discovered that one of the most common optional third party dependencies now allows just including the library in the bundle instead of making users do a separate installation step. I need to poke around a little more to make sure the legal ducks are in a row on that, but if it's true then it means that by full release time a lot of people won't need any third party dependency installation. Just drag my program to the Applications folder.

Tiny birds in the backyard seem to be having more success going after grasshoppers than the visiting cat had going after the birds.

Unless there's some kind of unanticipated work or personal emergency, I now have four days in a row set aside for working on Typica. I wouldn't count on it, but there's little enough left on the to do list that it's not impossible that I get a preview release out by Labor Day.

Did a grocery top up in anticipation of possibly not leaving the house for the next 4 days and I'm not sure if I've ever seen so many guys buying grocery store flowers at the same time.

Text messages asking if I'm interested in selling my home are immediately reported as spam and blocked. I'd need a completely ridiculous offer (maybe 10x fair value) to compensate for hassle of moving.

Did some server admin. Was happy to see that I could follow the trail of configs to find where I needed to add a new record and the change worked on the first try.

I might be out of town when that gets delivered so I should leave staff with some instructions if they want to get started on figuring out how we'll roast that before I'm back. Otherwise a few days delay on that won't be problematic.

Bought more coffee. One that I was hoping to get had already sold out.

It's wine o'clock.

Some of that increase is that wholesale is up a lot, but it would still be up significantly even if I removed that.