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

I don’t often see how much WordPress has moved forward, but this is definitely one of them. It used to be really hard to embed things into WordPress posts (Medium is the same way, you can’t add bullets, you can’t add videos, afaik). But they have an incredible number of things that they can embed.…

Wow what a powerful song, I’m just catching up on the Hamilton Mixtape and it is awesome. Particularly love Wrote My Way Out. I had not realized that the playwright who did Rent died just as it was going into previews. And listening to the stories that Rap can tell is pretty incredible Hat tip…

(Note, this is the start of my Medium friendly posts, so away go the bulleted and numbered lists which it doesn’t support at all and up with headings and subheadings. Hat tip to Blog2social for a nice plugin that cross posts). Creating a Go environment: Github Well another month, so another language, have to learn…

OK, I don’t know why this is a bug, but it definitely exists as an edge case. I’ve been slowly importing my photo library to iCloud, if you take say 4,000 images (I know I have a lot of them!), then it will take MacOS Photos about a week to upload them. However, if you…

It is incredible how fast a MacBook disk can fill up, here’s how to clean it up: Buy Space Gremlin. yes it costs money, but it is worth it. It will give you a graphical view of where all that hard disk space went. iMovies, I do occasional edits and because of the way it…

Well if you are using a VPN regularly for privacy reasons, you can see definite slowdowns or outright denials. Reddit picked it up first, but apparently Amazon is blocking VPN addresses, trying to go to Canada or perhaps to obfuscated will help. Apparently people are using VPNs to get into other countries (like the US) to…

Was a different kind of tool, but the guide to Smart Home is started and is up. Kind of a pain to use a different tool, so off to figure out how to cross post from WordPress. I’ve tried the Social plugin, but the fidelity is low. Medium doesn’t seem to like Markdown and the…

It’s kind of surprising what is allowed and not allowed. One problem is that the iOS Instagram client makes it essentially impossible to navigate through a big photo library, you can search and it is really intended just to load the most recent photos. Plus it’s a tiny screen to scroll through 7,000 photos and…

Wow it used to be that a 200 lumen headlamp was great, but with LEDs comes even better stuff. Here are the top rated things I’ve found thanks to Outdoorgearlabs.com and Switchback Travel: Coast Optics. Buying smaller brands can be great, this is a Portland company and their HL-7 is top rated, but the FL-85 which…

OK, I’m trying to see if iCloud Photo Library is a good place to store things. So I tried uploading 6K (that’s actually a small percentage) of my photos up there. What I found is that Mac Photos hangs after a while. It is showing strange messages in the console like cloudphotod sending spurious data in…