Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

If you are a nerd, and have range anxiety, how do you know how much charge you will really need. Here’s a way to figure it out Get a login to teslafi.com. It tracks your real world performance in minute detail. In particular it tracks the major variables like temperature and even wind. Get a…

I don’t know quite how or when I turned this on, but it turns out Bluehost has a very nice single configuration to sue Letsencrypt to get a free SSL certificate. But if you have their Sitelock tool on, then SSL doesn’t work and you can’t access it. I have to say their chat is…

I’ve been playing around with K8s and it is so attractive to just utter ​helm install stable/wordpress and get a running WordPress installation. But https://blog.ropnop.com/attacking-default-installs-of-helm-on-kubernetes/ warns us that you can get into real trouble here because tiller which is the server side piece of helm is unprotected, so any exploited pod can get access to the…

On to getting the right plugins so that it is easy to clone the environment. Some notes on keeping the minimal number of plugins and therefore surface area on attacks I’ve been using lots of different plugins, but the WordPress JetPack seems to keep growing and it is free, so some of the ones I…

OK this is confusing because 1Password’s scheme is pretty confusing 🙂 The short of it is that unlike Google or Facebook, there is not one URL to login. If you login to my.1password.com you are using your personal account. If you have a family or enterprise, then you need to login to a special URL that…

Well ok not exactly, but was fun to chat with Paul and pretend to be a radio star! And they have a nice embedding too!

They keep changing the way this works. But on a new machine or iPad, it is pretty likely that the authentication is going to be really frustrating. At least on my iPad and Mac, here are the symptoms: You connect to Starbucks Google as usual and then try browsing around and nothing happens. What is…

Wow this is really a black art to getting all this to work. There are some important things to understand if you have an Instapage site and are trying to get Facebook to work with and advertise it. TL;dr When you want to create a business on Facebook make sure: Never create an account that…

Here is where I am. A second level tech fixed WordPress. Said I had some bad ini Giles. I presume they mean php.ini. I suspect there were ones outside the main root directory. But it still doesn’t work correctly. Unfortunately she also changed the name of the blog and I moved domains so I have…

This was the first time that I had to take notes with this shiny new iPad Pro. I had thought the state of the art had moved farther along, but apparently there is no native handwriting recognition built into IOS. So you have to get something bundled with the application. The main thing is that…