Author: foxbox

Home-made Mentsuyu

The image shows a glass jar filled with a dark liquid, labeled "Mentsuyu Geconcentreerd 2:1." The jar has a white lid with a red arrow and the word "OPENING" on it. The jar is sitting on a black, textured surface, likely a stovetop. In the background, there's a blurred view of kitchen utensils hanging on a rack and a Miele appliance.

Ingredients:

  • half a cup of sake
  • 1,25 cup mirin
  • 1 cup dark soy sauce. The saly type, not the sweet one.
  • 1 piece kombu 14 x 18 cm
  • 1 cup katsuobushi or bonitoflakes

How to make:

  1. Add everything in a saucepan
  2. SLOWLY bring it to a boil on medium heat
  3. Simmer on low for 5 minutes
  4. Pour through a sieve into another container

Done.

Remember that this is a concentrated brew, so use two parts water and one part Mentsuyu. If you use this for Tonkotsu, use 30-40 ml per bowl of 250-300 ml of broth.

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[Baking] Egg Yolk cake

Foxes like eggs, and sometimes I have a few yolks left from another thing i made. This time it were left overs from a coconut macaroon cookie recipe.

The image shows a freshly baked loaf of cake in a black rectangular baking pan, lined with parchment paper. The bread has a golden-brown crust and is sitting on a black wire cooling rack. The background includes a glossy black surface, possibly a stovetop, and out-of-focus tableware.
This cake is, in fact, not a lie!

So here we go:

  • 6 egg yolks
  • 225 grams sugar
  • 110 grams water
  • 1 capful vanilla extract
  • 5 grams lemon zest
  • pinch of salt
  • 225 grams flour
  • 5 grams baking powder

Instructions

  • Line a 25 cm long cake tin with baking paper.
  • Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celcius.
  • Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together with a whisk.
  • Beat the egg yolks with the lemon zest for about 5 minutes until light, fluffy and thick.
  • Gradually add the sugar to the fluffy egg yolks and mix for another 2 minutes.
  • Add the vanilla extract and water while mixing slowly.
  • Stop mixing as soon as it is blended.
  • Sift the flour mixture into the mixer bowl.
  • Quickly fold the flour into the cake batter.
  • Pour the cake batter into the cake tin.
  • Bake in the centre of the oven for about 45 minutes until golden brown and cooked through.
  • Allow the cake to cool completely before cutting.

 

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[Solved] ArchiCAD “Error cannot create temporary documents”

I have to work with software ejecta named ArchiCAD (it’s not that bad, but i am so sick and tired of my job lol) and once in a while you get the following message:

"Error cannot create temporary documents"

It can be fixed easily by doing the following:

  1. Go to the drive where you are storing the USERS folder.
  2. Open the user’s folder
  3. Open the Graphisoft folder
    —> So basically “C:\Users\USERNAME\GRAPHISOFT”
  4. You will see the following folders:Screenshot of the graphisoft folder showing a large number of autosave folders.
  5. Delete all those AutoSave-xx-xx folders except for the most recent one which is just named AutoSave-xx (xx for the version of your archicad software) In my case, the total amount of data in these folders was 85Gb. That’s Eighty-Five Gigabyte…..

Done, ArchiCAD will now start again.

 

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Mastodon linkdump for when it pours.

Just a linkdump from my latest attempt to upgrade mastodon which went not so well in the end and had to roll back the software. Geez.

Clean all the qrappe:

  • https://peterbabic.dev/blog/cleaning-mastodon-media-attachments/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/14lfgt4/manually_deleting_media_cache/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/za3ke5/moving_my_mastodon_instance_and_my_cache_is_10gb/
  • https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#media-remove
  • https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/
  • https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/25147
  • https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/
  • https://www.yinfor.com/2023/11/mastodon-self-hosting-clean-media-storage-with-tootctl-command.html

fix all the qrappey errors:

  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70849182/could-not-open-library-vips-42-could-not-open-library-libvips-42-dylib
  • https://sebhastian.com/referenceerror-fetch-is-not-defined-javascript/
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48433783/referenceerror-fetch-is-not-defined
  • https://nodejs.org/en/download

more links to come? i have no idea – the attempt must be repeated.

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Browning BL22 – Test plates to check the bolt closure (misfires)

three plates next to each other, with the number 20, 21, 22 indicating the length of each plate.

The misfires in the Browning BL-22 were caused by a locking plate that was no longer within the correct dimensions. This issue is well documented on this website.

At one point, I 3D printed a few test plates, which made it easy to measure and determine the proper dimensions needed to eliminate the excess play in the bolt.

You can print these plates yourself and fine-tune their size until the gap between the barrel and the bolt is completely eliminated.

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/hz5vcwNLIIX-browning-bl22-misfire-tests

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One bolt, the size of 1/2158th of a standard double-door fridge’s width.

That makes total sense, doesn’t it? Apparently, for one nation and some other small country on this boulder we live on, it does.

So I needed a small mounting bolt for my american made, weapon. Silly me assumed that this was standard thread that everyone is using, but no. Eventually, after a lot of measuring, I figured out that the cut of the thread was Whitworth G40-1/8 and the estimated width of the bolt was 4,20mm and the length was 3,18mm. After a long search, I now know that i need to search for the following bolt:

#8-40 x 1/8

  • #8 means that the gauge is 0.164 in. or 4.17 mm
  • 40 stands for the threads per inch, in this case classified as “fine”.
    TPI 40 = 0,025″ Pitch in Inches or 0,635 Pitch in Millimeter.
  • 1/8 stands for the length of the bolt. (Actual size 0.1255″ or 3.1877mm)

So I just ordered #8-40 x 1/4 because I need longer bolts. And I was unable to find them here in The Netherlands. So AliExpress came to the rescue!

Self Tapping Screw Gauge (g) Size (mm)
4 2.9
6 3.5
8 4.2
10 4.8
12 5.5
14 6.3
18 8.0

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