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Continue reading →: wp: Amazify is dead long live Auto Tagger for Amazon and Cookie handlingOK, I discovered my Amazon Affiliate application Amazonify died silently, and suddenly I am not covering even the modest $20/month hosting charge. That’s not a big deal, but I thought you all liked me 🙂 Turns out I was doing a lot of things wrong, that a quick search revealed:…
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Continue reading →: wp: Fail at WordPress on Cloudways vs Digital Ocean (and Bluehost)OK, wow that was pretty easy, migrated to Cloudways with their migration tool and I was shocked at how simple this was, it ported with their plugin including the Cloudinary plugin and the various Redis servers. The big reasons for moving to Cloudways are: Net, net richtong.com is now the…
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Continue reading →: gt: Wow Grace’s Dance was great!Well Grace Tong continues to rock it. Back on March 30, 2024, Zoo! by Grace Yi-Li Tong happened at the Flushing City Hall to a really nice review. I’m biased of course and loved it too! Zoo!, which was immediately, as it’s description reads, a “fun and feral illumination of memory, charade…
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Continue reading →: wp: Migrating to Cloudways from DigitalOceanOK, I’ve been managing my WordPress instance on a DigitalOcean droplet for the past four years. It has been faster than my old Bluehost, but costs have been rising, so it is now $25/month up from a much lower number. And I’ve had my share of management issues like installing…
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Continue reading →: tech: Time Machine Backups to Synology again and Gregory Alpaca DuffelsWell, since I’m now rebuilding my MacBook 2014 for the third time and the MacBook Pro 2010 for the second, it’s time once again to think about backups. I have not used Time Machine for years because the MacOS has been so stable, but with these old machines and the…
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Continue reading →: tvl: Overseas making and receiving calls like a localSo if you are traveling around the world things have gotten a lot better. Most phone plans have global roaming (the T-Mobile 5GB/month of free international roaming is great). But you still have to be careful about phone calls where they are charging $0.25/minute if you are an international plan.…
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Continue reading →: edc: Hobonichi Notebooks deep, deep diveOK, this is only for true nerds, but I was listening to April’s Stationary Cafe podcast and saw on her Penguin Creative and then directly to Hobonichi Notebooks. I had no idea that this was a thing, but the idea of a small A6 notebook that has a day for…
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Continue reading →: tech: Authy 2FA failed me now onto 1Password and iCloud KeychainArgh, what a stupid thing I just did! Authy which is now owned by Twilio is discontinuing their desktop versions. That is a real pain for me as I do so much on the Mac. You are supposed to be able to run the iOS application on Apple Silicon but…
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Continue reading →: win: Windows 10 update fails and Windows 11 does not see SSD and SSD ShoppingWell, I do have two PCs which I admit I don’t use regularly, but I’ve been pretty lucky with Windows 10 and upgrades. Dave called me because the machine we had built for him (a nice AMD with a fast 1TB SSD) has mysteriously failed Windows 10 updates with long…
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Continue reading →: hw: Awesome Keychron Q2 Max with Gateron Melodic switches and GMK Neon keycaps but you need extrasWell, since I got my first Keychron Q2 Max with the crazy nice linear Alpaca v2 and my first GMK Retro keycap sets, I’ve just been raving about how nice they feel. With the included 2.4GHz transmitter, the connection is rock solid and reliable. Well, I was away for 10…
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