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title: 'Sunday: Fabulous Hamburger Buns'
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date: 2024-08-04T20:21:19+02:00
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# Morning
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/day7/edsolo.png" alt="Credit: Knvckle Ed Solo, YouTube" >}}
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This morning the planes from Kloten airport were taking off in a non-regular direction - normally
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they will take off away from our house, but this morning they were flying right over us. That arrose
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me from my slumber at about 08:30.
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After my morning bootstrap ritual, I made my way downstairs because I have only two tasks today:
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1. Loadtest the Gowin N305 router that I got sent to me; and
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1. Make the best hamburger buns that ever were, or will be; and
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1. Start moving ipng.ch from Jekyll to Hugo.
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In the morning, I start the loadtests, which each take about one hour and I need to do four of them.
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I hang up the 19" rack mountable machine in the lab rack where there's a few 100G loadtesters
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available. I only need to source/sink 2x25Gbit today, so I grab a breakout cable, connect it to the
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spiffy 32x100G Mellanox switch -- that runs Debian by the way -- and start the loadtests. One each
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for a ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-5 network card, each tested with DPDK and RDMA.
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The last loadtest starts just as we leave for _Bagle Boys_ to have the lunch we didn't have
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yesterday. I drive over to Oerlikon with Marina and Quinn, and we order. Marina is a bit
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diasppointed because she wants the lunch special but with modifications, and the lady behind the
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counter is not having any of that. So she ends up ordering a bagle instead (well, duh, we're at
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_Bagle Boys_!); Quinn orders pulled port, and I go for a sliced turkey one. They are super yummy, as
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always.
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# Afternoon
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Coming back home, I finish the loadtests and work my way through the report. I end up publishing it
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on the [[IPng website](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/08/03/gowin.html)] and make some noise on
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Twitter and Mastodon about it. I get a little bit of an endorfin release when the likes, +1's and
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boosts happen. My watch taps me on the wrist for every one of those. There's quite a few!
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At about 14:00 I walk up to the kitchen and start the hamburger bun procedure:
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* 500g floUr
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* 275ml milk
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* 50ml of Dougie
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* 20g butter
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* 10g salt
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* one egg
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I let Dougie, the butter, milk and the egg sit for 20min in the proofing oven, at 30C. This warms
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them up enough to let the butter get softer and Dougie get excited for the work it has ahead of it.
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I kneed the dough in the machine (because believe it or not, I find sticky dough ickie!), and after
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a nice coherent ball of stretchy dough is made, I let it rise for two times one hour. At 15:30 I go
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turn the dough and fold it on itself, to let it rise for the second hour.
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{{< image frame="false" width="6em" float="left" src="/img/init/sidequest.png" alt="The SideQuest logo" >}}
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Meanwhile I start the sidequest (or perhaps today it's the main quest?) of moving my three year old
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Jekyll site to Hugo. My buddy Michal introduced me to Jekyll when I first started the
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[[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch)] blog. It's a nice environment, and very extensible, but it keeps on
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pulling in more and more Ruby gems, some of which have already been decommissioned / abandoned. I've
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kind of always felt that this would be a deadend. Meanwhile, Hugo is a single executable Go program
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with everything built in.
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I decide that the goal for today is to move the skeleton of the IPng website to Hugo, not the
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articles, yet. So I create a copy of this _Sabbatical_ website, and kneed, push, and pull on it
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until it looks very similar to the IPng website. I added a preliminary screenshot in the pictures of
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today, below.
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When the dough has risen, I dump it on the kitchen top, cut it into eight equally sized 100g boules,
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fold them onto themselves, and roll the balls into buns. I spray the buns with water, and sprinkle
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sesame seeds onto them. I spray the buns again to make sure the seeds stick.
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Then, the eight boules go into the second rise, for one additional hour. This makes it 17:45 or so,
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after which I pre-heat the oven to 210C and lob them in there for 18min. The kitchen fills with a
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luscious aroma of freshly baking bread - my favorite smell in the world! *Ding*, the timer is done,
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and I remove the absolutely gobsmackingly perfect hamburger buns from the oven. I take a picture and
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send it to our family group chat. All this hating from yesterday: VINDICATION!
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# Evening
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Starting at 14:00 was because I figured it'd take roughly 4hrs from start to finish, and it is now
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18:10, which is not bad! I cut some pickles, cucumber, tomatoes and fresh onion. Then, I fry four
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beautiful beef patties that we thawed earlier. I bought a vacuum sealer after visiting my buddy
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WEiRD, and we've been pre-sizing portions like chicken breast, pork sausage and beef patties. The
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patties are fried very nicely, and a slice of chester cheese is put on them in the last few minutes.
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We all make our own hambuger just the way we like it. I have two :-)
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We take our dinner in front of the TV today, because the season finale of Stranger Things takes
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2h22m and Quinn needs to get up at 05:00 on Monday for his apprenticeship. 5am, O'RLY?! So we nom on
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the burgers in front of the TV, pausing the episode to quickly clean up after ourselves, then we
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plop back onto the couch and beanbag to finish the show.
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Once that's done, it's only 21:30 - perfect timing for Quinn; Marina goes upstairs and I walk
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down to the basement to write today's journal entry. I'm tempted to continue hacking on the Hugo
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transformation - it's curiously entertaining and I'm learning about
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[[SCSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sass_(style_sheet_language))], which I wish I had known
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earlier. In going through the differences in styling, I notice that Jekyll also uses SCSS. This
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makes it a little bit easier for me to mimick the style.
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Anyway, I'm going to try to solve one last problem, that of consistent URI naming. I don't want to
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lose my search ranking on Google, Bing and Yahoo. Right now, if you type the query [vpp ipng] or
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[debian mellanox], or most any other specific VPP query, my page is likely to be the top hit. I
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don't want to invalidate that, so the requirement is that Hugo has the exact same URL naming scheme
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that Jekyll has. I'll spend the rest of the _Ed Solo_ mix on YouTube puzzling that together in my
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demo.
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Tomorrow morning Marina and I are going to the Aligro - this is a cool but dangerous shop, as it has
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lots of bulk packaged things like sweets, candies and booze. It's gonna be fun tomorrow! :)
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## Pictures of the Day
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{{< gallery-category >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0504.JPG" caption="The Gowin 19 inch rack mountable server has 2x 2.5G, 3x 1G and 2x 25G as well as RJ45 serial. It is a pretty cool machine!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0505.JPG" caption="The inside of the Gowin server is a small but very modern board, using an Intel i3-N305 with 32GB of LPDDR5 and a bunch of IO on board." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0512.JPG" caption="The case is passively cooled, with a large heatsink over the CPU, its ribs are flush with the top of the case. I'm not sure how the dissipation is with a rack full of these ..." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0513.JPG" caption="They added an OCP 2.0 breakout which can house any number of 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 25G network cards. Pictured here is the Mellanox ConnectX-5 with 2x25G." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0517.JPG" caption="Brunch at Bagle Boys - our three bagles posed for a picture before being inhaled :)" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0521.JPG" caption="Here is the kneeded dough ready for its first task. Like Alexander Hamilton, it will rise up!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0522.JPG" caption="The formed boules with sesame seeds, ready for their second rise." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0523.JPG" caption="The baked hamburger buns, golden brown but not crispy -- Marina demands soft buns!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0524.JPG" caption="Closeup of a hamburger bun with sesame seeds, cut in half to show the breadcrum" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0525.JPG" caption="My burger with salad, cheese, onions and pickles. It was godly." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/website.png" caption="A screenshot of the work-in-progress IPng.ch website in Hugo. It is looking really good!" >}}
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