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IoT continues exponentially
It is incredible how much the world has progressed in price/performance over the last four years. The Raspberry Pi B we first used had two cores, 256MB of memory and a bus limited to 100Mbps and used SD cards. Now for $75 you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of main memory, built…
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Hue Zigbee light too far away from hub, use Wifi or hope for Thread
Well this is a frustrating problem. If you are trying to use Hue, then you will find that it needs to have a light bulb pretty close to it. That is because it using mesh networking over 2.4GHz with Zigbee. The solutions are pretty uninspiring. Basically, you need to put another bulb between the hub…
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Switching from WordPress to Hugo and JAMstacks
More election distraction… Well, I’ve been, for over 15 years WordPress and it’s probably time to leave the family. A Brief history of tongfamily.com Originally, tongfamily.com started in 1996 with FrontPage Extensions. Then in 2003, I finally had some time and switched to Ben and Mina Tratt and their Movable Type in 2003 blogging platform…
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Beware: There Are 3 Versions of Each iPhone 11 and 12 | PCMag
For iPhone 12s and 11s, they come in three different models each, designed for different countries. It’s important to get the right one for you. There are too many bands in the world so they will all roam but coverage will be different. Basically, the US model has a CDMA modem for rural AT&T and…
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OMG Heart swells with pride, Grace choreographs a Tod’s Shoes commercial
Well, what a cool thing, even in pandemic/election times, Grace choreographs and performs in a commercial that is tribute to New York City for Tod’s Shoes. Got to love that! It’s part of their stories collection and is called “In Our Shoes” Creative Directed and Presented by Grown Goods Co Produced by Calixo Films and…
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Nerd Heaven, iPhone Pro Max 12 and HomePods are available
Well, (more distraction from the elections), but if you are up now, you are a true nerd. The Apple Store opened about 5:05AM and as usual, the iOS store opened first. The web version even at 5:20AM is just starting up, so some tips, if you want to be first in line, have your iPad…
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Switching to Apple One make sure to turn off iCloud Storage
I didn’t realize this but when trying Apple One, it turns off the Apple Music plan for $15, but it does not turn off iCloud Storage for $10. Instead you end up paying for both and getting 4TB instead of 2TB of storage. It’s not hard to shutoff but kind of annoying. You go to…
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Quick crib notes and checklist for creating a new entity or company
OK I spend so much time making new companies or non-profits these days, it’s useful just to have a quick checklist for things to do: Pick a credit card that you will use for this that is easy to separate from your personal expenses, this will make taxes much easier! Use Namecheap to get a…
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Little Kitchen stocking stuffers from gloves to mandolins
(Ok, post election but still stressed, so more posts of random junk.) But if you want to round out your kitchen, Cooks Illustrated (subscription required) has some great recommendations: Mercer’s Culinary MercerGuard Cut Glove. So this is a thin glove that keeps you from cutting yourself accidentally. Great for mandolines in particular but also for…
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GitHub-fu from master to main and handling upstream quickly
Now that GitHub has made the transition from master (good-bye slavery!), all existing repos need to change otherwise you will never remember if you should git checkout master or main. Fortunately the steps are pretty easy: Rename your local branch from master to main with git branch -m master main where I think -m means…