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.

Cat wants to help.

Had to scavenge some adapters from other things to get some stuff set up (need to pick up a couple things so the scavenged bits can go back where they belong, nothing too expensive) but it's all working so that's nice.

I voted.

The cat says it's time to hug the cat.

When I woke up this morning there was a cat on my back. She normally waits until I'm awake to do more than sit on my hands.

This morning's back yard cat was just passing through.

Recruiter text spam marked as spam. I did a search for the company they're allegedly from and it's either erectile dysfunction or Indian outsourcing so I don't think I'm really missing out on anything here (and if it really were legit they'd give more details, not read like a template, and send it by email).

The cat's new plan to keep me home is to just cut off circulation to my legs

Ordered more coffee. Not as much as I wanted to order but I think it's important that I can pay for that and green coffee is expensive right now.

The cat seems to be eating more than usual today.

Bug of the day: swapped expressions for the result of a ternary.

Pair programming with the cat.

Saw a new cat hanging out in the back yard today.

How is it that Apple decided that an oversized folding iPad should come with MacOS but locked Vision Pro in the iOS ghetto? Kind of suspect they'd be selling more of both if they flipped that around.

So I got a Blu Ray drive that I can hook up to my laptop. If I pop in a disc and fire up VLC it says I can't play the disc because my drive is the wrong region. I have no idea what region the drive is set to and the drive didn't come with any software to change that. But I can use a ripper to extract the raw streams and get a nice set of MKV files that play just fine at full quality without needing the discs, no problem (actually better seek perf). Why do media execs think this makes any sense?

Someone just followed me on tumblr and I'm like, wait, didn't I get rid of that multiple acquisitions ago?

Grocery run was shockingly cheap. Store must be making it up on eggs which were priced multiple dollars higher than a store 2 blocks away.

Needed to hit a grocery store while doing errands for the shop and got a coupon for cat food at the checkout. I was planning to go back after work and buy cat food (among other things) so that's good timing.

Reasons to write your own software: So you can have good scroll bars instead of whatever that abomination everybody else seems to be using is.