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.

There was a big cat in my driveway when I got home from work today.

After tasting the new coffees on their own it'll be moving on to figuring out the blends, and then I'll have a bunch of roasting to do to get the shelves filled back up and get the orders shipped out, and at some point I'll need to update the web site and choose prices for the new stuff/update labels and PLUs.

Alternating between evaluating production test batches of new coffee and writing software. I've had a good week in terms of getting stuff done (and things generally working on the first try).

I wasn't planning on doing two different roasts of the new decaf Colombian coffee, but it takes a darker roast better than I expected so I'll see if I still think that after drinking the production test batch tomorrow.

Anyway, it looks like I should be able to get a couple nice distinct roasts out of this one (the whole range that I evaluated was quite good). Looking forward to tasting production test batches on drip tomorrow.

New coffee from El Salvador is very sweet. Sweetness in coffee often doesn't quite mean what people who don't have sensory training might think when they hear sweet, but several of the cups I'm evaluating here do just straight up taste like someone emptied a sugar packet into the cup.

Tonight's code compiles. Left myself a note for the next thing to work on so I can remember that when I wake up.

The coupon printer at the checkout was dispensing unprinted coupons for some reason. This is less offensive than last time when it printed a coupon that is allegedly good for a coupon, though with the coupon printer not bothering to print I guess I'm glad that I didn't try to use the coupon for a coupon that probably wouldn't have resulted in getting the coupon in a usable form.

Two shopping trips in a row now the grocery store seems to be part way through getting rearranged. Now almost everything on my shopping list is not where it was and this time around I noted an increase in apparent frustration from other shoppers. I found the cat food, which was the main thing I needed.

Today's code was largely of the sort that potentially blows up at runtime, but so far it seems to be working correctly instead.

My sister made the mistake of scaring the freight company away from delivering the coffee today so that's coming tomorrow instead. On the plus side, I got a new loaf of bread from the bakery.

Quarterly estimated taxes paid, as one does.

Lots of birds in the front yard. The cat is uninterested in them.

Pair programming with the cat > Pair programming with AI

Power company would like me to fill out a survey on the power outages they've been informing me of that don't seem to have happened

While none of the prices matched my estimate, the aggregate came extremely close. It looks like this should cost about $38 less than what I pitched.

*Edit* Not a couple thousand dollars, a couple thousand pounds (it's more like $13,000).

Ordered another couple thousand dollars of coffee. I'd estimated fairly pessimistically and only a couple things came in at a higher than expected price but they're both things that I haven't had on the shelf in a while. I might be able to lower prices on a couple other things.

I might be wrong about this because I don't know all the details of their routing plans, but I think FedEx is going to fail to deliver what they're saying they plan to get to me today. It got into Wisconsin (where it's going) along the WI/MN border on Friday, then instead of continuing across the state to where I am, they sent it off in the opposite direction to North Dakota and then continued toward Montana where it is now.

The cat is taking a break from her nap.