Tong Family

OK, some more crazy Vim tricks. I have vi sets so that a window pops up with lint errors and this can be annoying. Turns out there is a hack to close windows quickly. Normally I do a CTRL-W CTRL-W to get to the window and then can do a zz to close it. but…

OK, this is a strange problem, but I’ll document it for myself. I use Veracrypt to store my ssh keys and other things. They are actually protected by passwords, but as a safeguard, I also store them in a secure Veracrypt mount that is in turn in a Google Drive so I can share it…

Wow, the ASUS X13 (2022) convertible notebook is a nice nVidia GTX 3050Ti thin and light notebook. It is on sale for $1300 at Best Buy right now and it has a Ryzen 6000 processor with 16GB of memory and 1TB hard drive. There are some things that are hard to do: Turned the thing…

I’ve been using the Juno Jupiter Pro for a while now. It’s a pretty awesome dedicated Ubuntu laptop. The main limitation is that it is 3.5 pounds but it does require a large brick so really it’s more like 4 pounds. It does have 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD and an nVidia RTX 3050ti….

OK, it used to be that you would just dump anything you don’t need into the garbage and it would find itself in a landfill. Well, we are far from those days, today, every day there is regular waste, there is green waste and there is recycling plus lots of other special things, so here’s…

Do you know how sometimes one thing leads to another? In my case, it started with climate change which leads to 90 degree plus days in Seattle which leads to wanted to sit outside instead of swelter indoors which leads to wanting to write some code outside which leads to trying to get better colors…

We have a WaterCop system at home from the ancient days before Apple HomeKit and also an old lighting system. The first one has false alarms and we can’t ever tell which sensor actually triggered since they all feed a single sensor into the alarm system. The lighting system has failing switches so things like…

One of the cool things that GitHub handles pretty well is changing your company’s organization. For instance, if you have a secret name, say Acme, then you create an organization and your main repo could be in git@github.com:acme/src, but what if you want to change your name? Then you just click at the top and…

OK, inspired by the really cool Commitlint project which ensures you don’t just type “fix” when you do a git commit, I learned about a standard Conventional Commit format to make the lines useful. Basically, you can load into commitlint a standard set of rules for a pattern that looks like this: This seems silly,…

Well for a variety of crazy reasons we just drove 11 hours to Montana. It was a great trip and an easy way to see some beautiful country (with suitably scary revelations), but one of the highlights was listening to the LensRentals Podcast. I first started using LensRentals an incredible 9 years ago and they…