• Xml is a Joke

  29 July, 2020

  • tech

  Way back in the ancient times of 2006 I had a boss who wrote a xml sax parser in C++ because libraries were hard i guess. I got to debug bugs and use it and evntually wrote a object representation on top of it which used more memory and was 10% less awful to use. But everything was terrible so xml probably just didn’t have good libraries right.

  Today I had to edit someone’s app.config and append to xml attributes that were really maps[string][]string / Dictionary<string,List> that were hand serialized as"foo:bar,bunk;moo:brown,cow"

  Yuck. But this was just some awful dev right? So I aked to friends how they would serialize a map dict in xml.

  I got

  <MyAwesomeMap>
    <Entry>
      <Key>my key</Key>
      <Value>
        <List>
          <Entry>First one</Entry>
          <Entry> Second one </Entry>
        </List
      </Value>
    </Entry>
  </MyAwesomeMap>
  

  and

  <maptype>
    <entry key="key">value</entry>
  </maptype>
  

  Okay those are better but certainly not consisteny. What does my old buddy powershell do

  > @{foo="paul"} | ConvertTo-Xml -as string
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <Objects>
    <Object Type="System.Collections.Hashtable">
      <Property Name="Key" Type="System.String">foo</Property>
      <Property Name="Value" Type="System.String">paul</Property>
    </Object>
  </Objects>
  

  Woof that’s not great here’s json for comparsion

  > @{foo="paul"} | ConvertTo-Json
  {
    "foo": "paul"
  }
  

  What aboutu go and python? Turns out their standard library marshallers won’t even take maps/dicts.

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30928770/marshall-map-to-xml-in-go

  https://pypi.org/project/dicttoxml/

  Maps/dicts seem like pretty fundamental data types. Maybe XML was just never good all along.

  
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• Garage brewery improvments

  4 July, 2020

  • beer

  likely.

  • power strip with switches.
  • pump arm
  • auto sparge?
  • pulley?
  • hop spider?
  • small stand.
  • Mount pump.
  • Mount light add hooks above fro
  • remove carpet?

  Hardrer

  • 240 v power (steal ac?)
  • Drain in floor or permanent tube?
  • More space/ redo shelving?

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• Reiben Betrunken Lowe II

  30 June, 2020

  • beer

  Malt

  • 6lbs pilsner malt
  • 3 lb munich
  • 2 lbs caramunich II
  • 2 lbs dark munich
  • 4 oz englisth choclate

  Hops

  • Mt Hood 1 oz - 60 min
  • Mt Hood 1 oz - 5 min

  Yeast

  • Imperial - Harvest

  Water

  7.3? Gallon@158 strike. no sparge

  Notes

  • Dry and remember ph nuetralizer
  • Yeast nutrient
  • really slow start as I cooked it too much

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• Citrabomination

  23 June, 2020

  • beer

  Malt

  • 10 lbs pale malt
  • 1 lb Caramunich II

  Hops

  • Magnum 1 oz - 60 min
  • Citra Cryo 1 oz - whirlpool @ 180 degrees

  Yeast

  • Imperial - Barbarian

  Water

  7.1? Gallon@158 strike. no sparge

  Notes

  • yeast nutrient @ 5 minutes
  • Gypum @ boild

  Dumped first batch on garage floor because of pump setup. Bubbling within 12 hours

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• Carne Asada Street Tacos

  26 May, 2020

  • recipes

  Ingredients

  • Meat (About 3 lbs)
  • Orange juice
  • One large white onion
  • Cilantro
  • Lime juice
  • Ground Cumin seed
  • Garlic
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Whte corn tortillas

  MARINADE

  Mix:

  3-4 cups of orange juice (Enough to fully cover the meat in a freezer bag.

  1 tablespoon of lime juice 1 tablespoon of ground cumin seed 1 tablespoon of minced garlic (Fresh is always best, but sometimes I use the stuff that comes in a jar) 1 tablespoon of finely chopped cilantro 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper

  DIRECTIONS:

  Put marinade in a large freezer bag, along with the meat and get enough air out of the bag so the meat is completely in the marinade.

  Now, so far as time, I’ve sometimes only marinated the meat for a few hours. Mostly though, I like to let it sit in the refrigerator for two days.

  I’ve read that the citric acids break down the meat, and it does seem to be more tender the longer you let it sit.

  TOPPING:

  There is nothing more than white onion and cilantro. Dice up a whole onion and mix in ¼ cup of chopped cilantro.

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