I needed to add a few HTML-rendered spaces to a LISTAGG … which meant I needed to figure out a way of getting an ampersand into the glue string. Using the concat (||) feature, I was able to glom ‘&’ and ‘nbsp;’ together as the glue:
Bit of research in preparation for next year — I’m thinking Narragansett turkeys — they’ve got some dark quills (so aren’t the ‘perfect’ commercial turkey), but they’re great foragers and make more turkeys all by themselves (sadly, this is not something many commercially bred animals can do). They’re also pretty cool looking!
We’ve had a horrible time using the DigiBoil we ordered some four or five months ago. The temperature is way off. The manufacturer says there’s no calibration on the unit — and, if we want to be able to calibrate the unit, we should pay the money for a Brewzilla. A quote from their latest e-mail:
“The Digiboil is primarily designed (and marketed) for other purposes – we sell a great many for use with stills or as HLTs, typically. To that end, the granularity of temperature control of the Brewzilla is not typically needed for the Digiboil.”
In my opinion, that’s a little disingenuous. We ordered a DigiMash — a package to turn the DigiBoil into an all-in-one electric brewing system.
We were considering the iteration with a pump included
I’d totally believe it was originally designed as a HLT, accessories packages were put together to make it a brewing system but those accessories were discontinued because the thing doesn’t work well enough to be a brewing system. But my opinion is that it was certainly was marketed as something fully functional. And the extra couple hundred bucks for the Brewzilla got you more advanced features like step mashing.
The strangest thing is that the problem seems to be the controller — building up a NodeMCU-based controller would make something better than a Brewzilla (you can flash your own firmware if you want the logic to change — we got put off the Brewzilla because v3.1.1 units weren’t available in the US when we were looking to purchase something. The v3.1 logic started the timer when the elements kicked in. You’d have to buy an upgraded 3.1.1 board to get the new logic that starts the timer when the target temp is reached (and sixty minutes at 155 isn’t the same as sixty minutes spent going from 135 to 155 then holding at 155).
We’ve been seeing dropped packets on one of our servers — that usually means more data is coming in than can be processed, but it’s nice to confirm rather than guess. The command “netstat -s” displays summary statistics that are nicely grouped into causes:
TcpExt: 16 invalid SYN cookies received 88 resets received for embryonic SYN_RECV sockets 18 packets pruned from receive queue because of socket buffer overrun 2321 ICMP packets dropped because they were out-of-window 838512 TCP sockets finished time wait in fast timer
The developer console will show client-side errors. You can also use it to interact with data on a web page (like the approaches I’ve published to exporting data from Teams). To display the developer console, use Ctrl+Shift+i
When you first display the console, you may want to clear the existing output – it’s difficult to correlate the errors to discrete actions you’ve taken on the website. Once the console is clear, perform the action again and watch for errors as you perform each individual operation.
Clearing console output on Firefox:
Clearing console output on Chrome:
For both Firefox and Chrome, you can hold CTRL while pressing F5 and bypass cache when reloading a web page. This is particularly useful when the JavaScript for a page has been updated — rather than clearing your entire cache, you can hard refresh the page to get the updated JS file.
Our first egg! From the green queen … since that’s the only one who lays green eggs/
It’s almost time to start seeds for this year’s garden. I’ve got about two weeks to get some pots ready — we’ll get the peppers, asparagus, celery, and verbana started. There are a few herbs that we can start too — oregano, rosemary, and thyme. I’m not growing any eggplant this year.
| Plant | Indoor Sow Date Start | Indoor Sow Date End | Transplant Start | Transplant End | Direct Sow Start | Direct Sow End | Action Date |
| Bell Peppers | 17-Feb | 6-May | 17-Feb | ||||
| Celery | 17-Feb | 6-May | 17-Feb | ||||
| Oregano | 17-Feb | 29-Apr | 17-Feb | ||||
| Rosemary | 17-Feb | 6-May | 17-Feb | ||||
| Thyme | 17-Feb | 29-Apr | 17-Feb | ||||
| Asparagus | 22-Feb | 21-Mar | 28-Mar | 16-May | 22-Feb | ||
| Eggplant | 22-Feb | 7-Mar | 16-May | 30-May | 22-Feb | ||
| Verbana | 22-Feb | 21-Mar | 16-May | 30-May | 30-May | 22-Feb |