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

Brian reminded me that it is time for the annual update on how to manage GitHub repositories and your open-source connection. It turns out there are only a few paths that don’t lead you to a dead end. After four years of using it, here’s a quick set of tips,…

It used to be that WordPress had a separate build for multiple sites called WordPress Multiuser (WPMU0 That is being to handle multiple websites in a single WordPress installation. That’s why most of my personal sites are just separate WordPress installations. However way back in V3, they got rid of…

This is one of the most confusing things about hosting a website, you basically have three distinct choices to make when you start a site, you can use the same for all three pieces or you can mix and match Registrar. This where you buy your domain. Shop around, but…

My buddy Mark asked me the what antivirus I’m using and that reminded me I haven’t posted on this topic for a while. I’ve used a variety of these schemes. There was a day when Mac’s didn’t need antivirus, but that has long gone. There’s a huge variety of anti-virus…

Well this is a little silly Google Docs does not allows an image to be in the background, you can have it inline or it can break text, but not in the background. The hacky solution is to create a drawing and this does support layers. Doesn’t work for multipage,…

Ok, here’s the issue, it would be awesomely nice to have tongfamily.com point to www.tongfamily.com but AWS Route53 does not allow this, you have to have a hard address A record for this. Bluehost and Digital Ocean handle this magic, but not Amazon. So what’s the work around? If you just use…

Wow this is a pretty complicated topic. It seems like every organization has a different view of how the world works. Sometimes, on GitHub for instance, it is all tied to email names, you create an organization as a separate thing and then just have a list of emails names…

OK, I do it all the time, but just to review some of the key rules for hiking (Courtesy of allcampgrounds.com. Most folks feel like there is a trade off between safety and enjoying the woods. The truth is that you can be safe and you will still feel untethered…

Don’t be as dumb as me. Do not ever update your Shimano Di2 from a phone that is low power mode. If you do and the lock screen comes on, then the Bluetooth LE connection gets interrupted and the Shimano Di2 shifting system hangs. It won’t even shift or respond.…

Well electrification is happening to bikes and that’s a good thing. It’s going to solve two big problems: 1. Riding with a group. Riding is fun but if you fall off the back or on a hill, it’s joy great. An ebike let’s you keep up by shaving the soul…