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  • Prunus Mume, lost in translation

    All over the web, there are people asking what to do with umeboshi, or the green fruit, prunus mume, aka, ume, aka Japanese plum, aka xi muoi, aka, maesil, aka Korean green plum, aka muoi, aka mume. Here in the San Gabriel Valley, nearly everyone eats something connected to this plant. Mexicans use chamoy sauce,…

  • Umeboshi and Maesil Rot

    I opened up the two pressing vessels and repacked them into jars. One was seven days old, and the other was six days old. They both had some moldy plums, so I pulled the moldy ones. The mold problem wasn’t that serious. It was very little bread mold, and small spots of black mold. So,…

  • Umeboshi Misadventures

    We had a big crop of ume this year – only around 10-15 pounds, but that’s good to me. Here are the results so far. My mom and I clashed over how to do this. She was of the “press large batches”, don’t clean too much, and salt enough school of thought. I’m of the…

  • Turn Audio Links into inline audio players

    This is a fork of https://greasyfork.org/users/8668, modified to work with a platform I’m working for. It adds a small Play button next to links to audio. To use it, you load the page, and then wait several seconds. This is required because the page loads in parts and may take more than a couple seconds…

  • Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages

    Online code editors with compilers are a great way to learn a computer language without going through the hassles of installing it on your computer. You can code anywhere you can bring up a web browser. https://www.programiz.com/c-programming/online-compiler/ https://www.onlinegdb.com/ https://www.tutorialspoint.com/compile_c_online.php https://onecompiler.com/c/ https://www.w3schools.com/c/c_compiler.php https://www.jdoodle.com/ https://replit.com/~ https://godbolt.org/

  • ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions

    While slavery existed in various regions across the globe, there were differences in the forms and practices of slavery in different areas. It’s important to note that the institution of slavery was diverse, and variations existed within regions and over time. Here’s a general comparison and contrast of different forms of slavery in select regions:

  • Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts

    I had a lot of problems importing a list from AirTable into Google Contacts.

  • Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive

    Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive

    Lady Isdihar runs an archive of USSR era documents and some Palestine documents. This page links out to several of contemporary interest.

  • Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle

    This is based on the tutorial included with the bundle, with a few changes to work with the current configurations included with the bundle. We’ll use the HWI OAuth Bundle and Symfony to create an application that gets auser token from Google. The code that Flex installs is a skeleton application that is almost enoughcode…

  • IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream

    Symptom: the system sometimes comes up, and sometimes fails. There’s a nest of dependencies, but the fix is really simple: more DNS servers. Our IP addresses are being changed, and I’ve gone through the process of changing them in the config files. Fortunately, or not, Icecast and Ezstream were using domain names in the configs.…