Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

#introduction

I'm part owner and roaster at a little coffee company in Wisconsin. Author of Typica, a popular free program used to capture and work with coffee roasting production records that's used at roasting companies all over the world. Volunteer on the Roasters Guild education committee. Available for paid coffee consulting, training, open source software development. Living with a cat who broke into my house and decided to stay. Likes: cute, travel, food. Dislikes: blinking lights.

(not that I wouldn't have minded a couple more minutes of green hills zone remix)

Sometimes you have to wonder what the process is that goes into picking the little bits of music between segments on the radio. Nothing against Sonic the Hedgehog music, but what does this have to do with anything they were just talking about?

How many episodes would you have left if you removed all the rerun segments from Pink Panther?

Today's coding is exploratory in nature. Just making sure I understand what I'm trying to do, checking out some different approaches that might work before I write it for real.

Tasting production test batches of new coffees today. Before any new lot goes out for sale I sit down with a cup and make sure it's delicious. Sometimes what's very good on the cupping table doesn't translate very well to how any normal person would drink coffee so it's good to have that final check of trying the coffee prepared in the manner most customers are likely to experience it.

Power company still thinks my power is out, but it still doesn't seem to be.

Needed to dual-laptop briefly today and noticed (by accidentally messing it up) that despite the older one having a much larger power brick, the barrel connectors are the same and using the "wrong" ones works just fine.

Power company just texted that my power is out. It does not seem to be out yet.

The rain is very loud.

There's a cat on my lap.

Coming with that is more Colombian coffee. Price on that was set before coffee prices went crazy so I should be able to charge on the lower end for that. Unfortunately, I don't have much where I've similarly locked in good prices contractually so most upcoming orders are likely to remain somewhat scary.

The Costa Rican coffee that I had on contract isn't in the country yet but there's other lots of the same mark and this has been very consistent year over year so I'm not worried about trading a couple bags with a different customer whose coffee has arrived. Depending on sales I might run out before the new coffee is ready, but it'll be close. At least the usual online customers have all gotten their orders in recently.

More coffee is on the way.

The cat would like to know where the least convenient place for a cat to be sitting is. For science or something, I guess.

Back home, spending quality time with the cat.

My sister has failed to send me a fresh cat picture today.

Road trip starts tomorrow. I've acquired fresh cat stuff to leave with my sister when she's ready to accept delivery of the cat, finished up with the work that I would have needed to do while I'm gone that I can't just have staff handle, last pre-trip laundry is in progress. Alarm is set.

Sure enough, after regaining most of my progress (one of the room upgrades ended up different) the game has once again gone back multiple days to erase all of that and oddly enough also reset the gear puzzle back to its initial state but leaving the shortcut open. I've unlocked dare mode so I might go for that trophy some time, but I think I just need to wait for a patch to fix what is for me a game breaking bug.

I might be done with Blue Prince now, not because I've finished solving all the puzzles or reached a point where it's become too difficult, but because twice now it's lost my 8th trophy and now it's also lost my last 3 upgrade disks and at least a couple opened walls.

The hope here is that it's harder to create broken or nonsensical configurations and easier for people to find the features they want to use. I've more than once had people ask me if I'd consider adding features that had already been introduced years prior so there's clearly a discoverability problem there and I know that there are certain kinds of config changes that are kind of a pain to do right now that should be easier in the new design.