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

OK, you are seeing a bunch of posts here that were accidentally put on my unused WordPress hosted blog. The problem is that the really great WordPress editor by default goes to their sites only. You can’t set a custom site (probably because they want to promote their own hosted system). Copy HTML to move…

The Markdown elements outlined in John Gruber’s design document. Two quick tips: If you are using the WordPress on an IOS device, it has two very different ways to integrate. If you choose the share button, then from the text actions, you can pick “Save as draft”. This let’s you simply bookmark things and then…

No I don’t mean the automatic kind, I mean the simple net with a pole, you wouldn’t think it would take so much work to get a simple thing, but even with Fakespot and reading reviews, things are getting past all these systems Do not get the POOLWhale despite the 5 star reviews Again, thanks…

Well, I discarded the keyboard as not usable because it doesn’t have arrow keys like the wired 60% keyboard and it didn’t have arrow keys like the dedicated keys on the Keychron V2. But, it turns out I was wrong about this and didn’t understand how it works. Net, net, while inconvenient as a daily…

OK, I think that this Homekit stuff is pretty deep and much of this doesn’t have a guide, but three quick things: Homebridge insights are that this thing actually works really well. It’s a simple node application and using a $50 Raspberry Pi is really the right approach from a simplicity and isolation point of…

OK, I confess, in our organizations, we typically have a single organization zoom account since there are not enough meetings to justify everyone having a paid account. This leads to all kinds of issues because of different defaults, but the short note is that you want Zoom meetings security to be set to the passcode…

OK, this thing actually works pretty well, here are some notes: Wow, it is way more dynamic than fixed watering so as the temperature shift here (Seattle is pretty unprecedented, in the old days, getting into the 80s was warm, but it’s been 109F and next week it will be 94F), but basically, it takes…

Wow, things are about to change alot in the communications business. There are two big things happening: Wifi 6E at 1GHhz at 6GHz. Ok, this has a horrible name, but basically, the US is about to open up 1GHz worth of spectrum in the 6GHz range. The implications of this are just awesome. Right now…

Well, in the never-ending quest to be efficient, one this that is a pain is that in normal vi, if you want to say change things inside a set of quotes, you have to go backward to the first quote with F” and then change to the next quote with ct” which means Find backward…

Well, I’ve always had good luck keeping Mac hardware going. In fact our MacBook 2008s still run (they are just so slow it’s not really worth it), but I encountered my first real hardware failure where it would not even boot into recovery mode. But if you get these symptoms, here are the things to…