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.

I can probably still get this going faster (what I'm seeing is consistent with the bottleneck being 1GbE, but I'm pretty sure the ports on the NAS are 2.5), but that would involve replacing hardware and honestly, I don't need it so I'll just keep that in mind for maybe later if I expect that to change.

Yeah, transfer speeds in/out of the NAS are a lot more stable now that it's on the wired part of the network even when the other things it's communicating with are on the wireless side. Moving this was a good decision.

Tonight I'm going to move the home NAS so it can be on a wired connection instead of a hanging off a janky Ethernet to WiFi thing.

More coffee is on the way.

Most of today's roasting schedule is full capacity batches (2 full batches for one of them). That makes it a little harder to get started as I prefer to ramp up with smaller batches, but a longer and hotter preheat also works.

Today's grocery bagger asked if I needed help getting my purchase out to the car and on the one hand I'm sure they've just been trained to start asking that, but I'm also thinking do I really look so feeble that this seems like a reasonable question to ask? (no, I don't) Then the coupon printer produced a couple of those fake coupons that are good for a future coupon. Can we get the millennials to kill that trend, please?

Tried out Jellyfin on my NAS. Kind of glad that I decided to move things in a little bit at a time instead of giving it access to everything all at once as it's severely mis-identified a couple things requiring me to go in and disambiguate and a few other rips aren't aren't arranged in a way it likes so I've pulled those out of the library to make adjustments. Easier to catch things like that on a slow start. That said, totally good enough for me to not want to just build my own thing.

Outside is certainly having a weather.

Tax money has arrived in the credit union account that gets paid out of. I wasn't sure if that was going to make it in time or if I'd have to rely on government inefficiency to avoid bouncing those checks. (Accountant sent me the much higher than expected bill with just a couple days to come up with considerably more than I had saved so I ended up liquidating a chunk of my brokerage account to cover the difference)

Struggled through a conversation with someone who had picked up some nonsensical alien terminology because she asked ChatGPT instead of starting with a human.

Looking at the tax forms the accountant finally sent out today, it seems that the money I took in from people grateful for free software I've written resulted in a tax increase more than 3x that amount. Estimated taxes are also up by enough that I needed to give myself a raise to cover that.

Ordered a pizza.

No clue how my cell number ended up on the Republican text spam lists but I'm doing report as spam and blocking all of that. (I'd do the same for Dems if they were spamming me but at the moment it's all GOP, scammy lenders, and roofers who are getting plonked)

Today is not a good day for dealing with the outside world. Thankfully, I have tomorrow scheduled as a work from home day.

I voted after work. It looks like we're on to a new sticker design and the poll workers were very big into thanking people for voting. Not a big turn out. Only one thing on the ballot had a choice.

This doesn't count several years before I started tracking this in a database.

Looking over some reports it seems that over the past 2 decades I've spent over $1M on coffee.

Reinflated my mother's bicycle tires.

Today's work was good. I've unblocked a lot of stuff now that'll just be straightforward slogging it out, but that should be a ton of highly visible progress.

Today's coding has mostly been exploratory. I don't know if the approach I've worked out is how I want to handle the feature in the long run but I've confirmed that it's an approach that can definitely be made to work.