Hey folks, going to jump right in to the important bits!

Recipe Builder Complete

Wooooo, finally some code completions to celebrate! Except for some minor tweaks, the Drag and Drop Recipe builder is now complete.

You can find it in the Release/GUI directory of the main Github repo. The app consists of three files:

• pourBuilder.php the front end

• js/pourBuilder.js the javascript functions

• js/pourBuilderForms.js variables storing the form elements that automatically render when dragging a new step function

The app stores all step settings as a JSON object and then sends it over to the inc.updateRecipeStep.php file. This will be turned into an API endpoint for production soon.

You can easily control all aspects of your brew recipes from this single interface:

• Grind weight and grind size

• Water temperature, amount and flow rate for each step

• Cone speed, direction and distance

• Water spout start position and end position

• How long you want the step to actually take to complete(this will vary flow rates to match)

• Repeat steps to quickly finish a complete recipe

• Pause timings for your bloom

There are definitely some tweaks I'd like to make but at this point, they can wait until our update cycle. Stoked!

Get Your Learn On

I have started releasing some of Mugsy's machine learning code. First release is the roast recommendations helper. It is currently a terminal app but will be converted to an API at some point in the coming weeks.

It use a super simple cosine vector similarity loop to find new coffees that match your tastes. This will eventually be improved and combined with some collaborative filtering once we have more active users and data to learn from.

You can find the code for this in the /release/GUI/learningMode directory on the main Github.

Similar methods are used to automatically improve brew recipes but until we have more active users with lots of recipes there is not much to show. I do have some dummy data I've been using for development so the functionality is there, we just need some real world verification that we are going in the right direction. More to come on this in the coming weeks!

Shipping Updates

There is a bunch of things to hit here so I am just going to run through the list.

• This weeks first batch went out without issue.

• The second batch will be going out tomorrow as I wasn't able to get to the storage space today for packing.

• I have been speaking with a Shipping Consultant to get some help with our slow output. There is a real chance I will be leaving FBA for the remaining shipments. Our pipeline is still really narrow and units are not moving into a fulfillable status fast enough. I am meeting with the consultant in person early next week so will have more details at that point.

• I have spoken with a few of you over email and discord about testing direct shipments. These will start moving out on Monday or Tuesday. I still need to confirm details with a couple of you and will be in contact tomorrow to do so.

• We do have some confirmed deliveries but I am still waiting to hear back from folks so I can get some pics. This is a daily task for me and I will post the second I have something.

• I have had the Deep Dive updates off for the last couple of days while concentrating on other work. I will be jumping back into this tomorrow mid-day. All accounts will update and shipped/delivery totals will be included.

• On Thursday I started inventory and initial set up for releasing new assembled units. The first batch of assembled units will be going out on Wednesday of next week. I do not have quantity estimates yet but will do a similar run down as was done with the kits last week. I will have this info released on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.

Other Bits

• Build Manual: I havent touched it this week. I was obsessively focused on packing and code for the last several days so most of the other stuff went a bit stale. The good news is now the the recipe builder is done I have a lot more bandwidth to finish this up. I will be jumping on this tomorrow after Deep Dive and hope to have significant updates by Sunday mid-day.

• Discord Q and A: I will be online on the Discord channel for an hour or two on Sunday. I am not sure on exact time yet but I'm thinking somewhere around 5pm EST. I will confirm the time at some point on Sunday.

Ok, thats it for now. I hope all is well out there for all of you and appreciate your continued patience while we keep moving forward towards 100% fulfilment.

Cheers,

-m