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.

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I have corn.

Confirmed that one of the fans on my sister's laptop is starting to fail and started the process of getting a replacement part. There are 2 fans in the cooling assembly and I've identified which one is starting to act up, but I'm assuming that what I'll end up replacing is the whole cooling assembly with both fans and the heat sink. At least that way there's only 1 part, not like the time I was sent the exact same wrong part 3 times before getting someone to pay a little more attention.

Bought another $10Kish of coffee, but I've got about $1K in tariff refund credit that'll get applied so that helps. YTD roasted coffee production is up close to 10% so I wish I were buying more.

Lately I've been getting more emails that include "I recently came across your profile on GitHub" where the message as a whole is either vague or nonsensical showing neither understanding of what I've put there nor appreciation of the fact that my budget for those projects has always been approximately $0. I assume all of these are scams (also it's been years since I last logged in or pushed updates there).

Tracked down, fixed, then simplified the fix for a bug that probably nobody else was going to encounter. The new code is in all cases more efficient so that's nice.

Computer feels weird with the flex from not having a battery under the palm rest.

My laptop will have to stay plugged in while using for a while. Removed the swollen battery and ordered a replacement since the rest of the computer is still fully adequate for my needs.

Email subject line, "Is your network ready for AI?" I'm thinking there's no way that isn't 100% a scam.

Roasting staff has now received trackball training. I thought that might be useful since when I asked the crew how they felt about trackballs before buying one I got "what's a trackball?" as a response.

I don't think any piece of spam will ever top the one that started something along the lines of, "I'm happy to know you are in the market for life size animatronic dinosaurs." Sometimes I wish I were.

I figured that with the constrained space something you don't have to move around might be better and since it'll be used from a standing position the ball seemed like a better ergonomic fit than a track pad.

Mouse on the computer at the production roaster started sending random scroll events so today I replaced that with a trackball and we'll see how that goes.

The crew putting in a driveway at a house across the street seems to have done a good and efficient job over there. Hopefully nobody comes along to mess things up before the concrete sets.

Finished up a little thing. Did a bit of waffling on the design of one of the parts but got something that's working. Wish I had waffles.

Also deleted a bunch of code left over from some unrelated exploratory work that was ultimately a dead end since none of it was needed for the solution I eventually got to. I thought I'd already deleted all of that, but I guess not.

Implementing something that I sketched as a redesign and am far enough along in that to see that I do, indeed, like the new design better from a usability perspective. I feel like the new design makes what it is more obvious, shows more information, and saves 1 click per operation for mouse users.

Purchased theater tickets.

Today's coding work was mostly just moving code around to make pieces interact in a way that's nicer, but there was also a case of running into a limit that wasn't in the old version of a dependency (because I wanted to see how bad performance got in a degenerate case [surprisingly not that awful]) and working around that when it may be necessary.