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.

Trying to buy more coffee. There'll have to be a price increase on the next Guatemalan coffee we bring in and part of that is the 10% tariff (which means a more than 10% increase that needs to be passed along since coffee weighs less after I roast it) while another part of that is just that the coffee is more expensive than usual.

Replaced some networking gear at work. Some strange choices for defaults on the new hardware made this take longer than it should have (and the printers needed extra convincing to go along with the change but that one I'm going to blame on the printers).

Got a lot of code written and debugged today. There are a couple tweaks I'd like to try at some point but I'm going to move on to other features first.

Got new bulbs for the can lights in the kitchen. The one by the oven wasn't burnt out yet but the other two have been replaced by brighter, lower power bulbs so I'll be able to see a little better while washing dishes or doing prep.

I've known that this was going happen soon, but today I got home from work to discover that the cat has passed away. It looks like she was in a comfortable napping spot when it happened.

Set up a new credit card terminal at the shop. Increasing sliminess and the poor quality of the latest hardware change we were forced into means that we've gone with a different company. Fortunately, we have employees and customers who have experience in their other businesses using this provider because "No Training Required" really means "We can't be bothered to provide comprehensive documentation that might scare people off".

Just about finished with the chunk of code I've been working on lately. Today I worked out a new feature. Not sure if it's how I'll keep things, but I'll live with it as it is for a while and see how that goes.

Old cat is acting like an old cat.

On reflection, this was the high point of the work day.

I saw four good dogs on the way to work today.

The strange bug involved data being reported from the future, but I had just set up one of the transformation pipelines wrong. No actual precognition was observed.

Continued with the work from the past couple days and noticed and fixed a couple bugs (one strange, the other significantly less strange). Knocked a couple items off the to do list for the part of the code base I'm working on, but still have a few more things to add.

There's a bit more work to do on today's code to get all the features I want in, but the fundamentals are there with a lot less debugging than I usually need when writing this sort of code. I still hate doing graphics code, but maybe I'm getting a little better at it.

Today I'm doing graphics code. I hate doing graphics code but it needs doing so I'm doing it.

Documentation: "Don't use this, use these other things instead." Me: *looks at the recommended things, sees that they don't have the argument I need* Me: *Uses the thing anyway* Program: *works fine*

Ended up doing one more feature before bed. It's a little hacky and I might need to rework it later if I want to add more features, but that's a problem for future me. For now it's working as intended.

Had to take a brief break to unmelt my brain (not because I was trying to do something difficult but because I was about to do the easy thing in a way that was more difficult than it needed to be) but got done more than I planned on. That might be it for today's productivity, but I'll give some thought to what should come next.

Dinner has been eaten. Now to see if I can finish up another chunk of work.

Found a documentation bug, but taking a different approach entirely cut the work my code needs to do in half.

Last night I finished my latest bottle of whiskey and it occurs to me that there's most of an open bottle that came with the house, abandoned by the previous owners. I suspect it was first opened a few decades ago and I assume it's no longer delicious.