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Continue reading â: home: Nest Displaying a ClockIt is actually harder than you think with these smart devices to make things work exactly the way you want. Someday, it will be as easy as “Always display the time when I walk by my Next thermostat” But in the meantime, you need to know how to use Farsight…
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Continue reading â: net: UniFi VPN to Home Teleport eratic, Wireguard worksWell, we’ve had two cases where we want to access our Unifi network at home. In one case to get a Time Machine backup finished and also to access the home servers. The documentation is just terrible, so here’s a quick guide as of October 2, 2025 Teleport: Load WifiMan…
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Continue reading â: tech: APC Smart-UPS 1500 SMC1500 Battery Replacement: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Build My Own Battery PacksLong story short, if your trusty old APC Smart-UPS 1500 (SMC1500) is making that annoying beeping noise, it’s time for new batteries. I’ve been down this road more times than I care to count (sigh, the joys of running a home lab), and here’s everything I’ve learned about replacing these…
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Continue reading â: dev: Massive YAML file debuggingWell for a variety of reasons, all of our ultra cool agents, we have a nearly 6,000 line single YAML file that is our base configuration. So it is nearly impossible to figure out what is wrong because it is not incorrect syntax, but the tool (TNE Compass if you…
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Continue reading â: dev: Agonies of 1Password op injectThis is a really useful command. Previously, we’ve been using “op read” to get items from 1Password. Man is it slow, even though you are logged into 1Password on the client, it takes a about a second for each of say 25 API keys to get pulled. Why 25 do…
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Continue reading â: wp: The mysteries of Inmotion Hosting SSL CertificatesWe just had our main SSL certificate “die” on Netlify. I’m not sure why but a TXT record got truncated. This reminded me I’ve had another long standing issue with tongfamily.com where every so often I would get an invalid SSL certificate. Well, I tried gemini-cli to figure this out…
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Continue reading â: pod: RBT1 Rich and Bill talk about CRM, Silent Sufferers and AIAnother great session with Bill Price talking about Silent Sufferers and the future of Customer-Managed Relationships (which is way more accurate than CRM or Customer Service)
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Continue reading â: pod: RT8. Talk with Seb Suarez and the Gen Z View of AIThis was more of a test podcast than anything else, where we are now streaming on LinkedIn Live, YouTube Live, and Twitch with rebroadcast on LinkedIn, YouTube, and the Podcast world. But Seb does a good job talking about what it’s like for someone in college now with Generative AI…
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Continue reading â: car: Honda TPMS Reset and B1 ServiceYou can forget how obscure errors can be, but today we got a B1 service light and then the TPMS light turned on. I made sure the pressure was OK, but it was still on. Then I checked out the YouTube Video that said you just have to power the…
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Continue reading â: ai: blog: Tongfamily PromptAs we are building out various AI Agent Assistants for an entire enterprise at tne.ai, one of the crazy things is how to mimic voices. We have one that is part of our CMO Chief Marketing Officer roles, which does this. Given a set of input (in this case, the…
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