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

I had not realized it, but while pathogen is pretty awesome for managing bundles, it doesn’t have any update mechanism, so you have to recurl the ~/vim/autoload/plug.vim and also do a git pull for all your ~/vim/bundles which is kind of a pain. Maybe time to switch vim bundlers and folks like vim-plug…

Well trying to get (finally!) through the CS223 class on Coursera and actually do the homework, etc. One of the nice things is that Coursera let’s you run the entire course offline on your phone. But one of the big issues is that they only let you run a version…

Well time once again to update how to process photos and videos. Life is a little more complicated when the inputs are: iPhone X. For most daily shots and really it is the easiest way to shoot panoramas and they come out pretty good looking at least for casual sharing.…

I didn’t realize this and the wrong card got charged for the annual Amazon Prime membership. Make sure you have the right one at Amazon Prime page, this is not the same as your regular orders page. You also want to turn on renewal reminders as well so you can…

It is such a pain to create email alias with Gsuite. They have tried to fix this with some simplified things, but here is what you need to know: There is now a simplified UI to create an internal “Group”, this is what they call an email alias. They actually…

With Excel when you want to concatenate strings you just use the overloaded plus sign, so =A3 + ” Hello” whould add the string hello to whatever is in cell A3. With Google Sheets, this doesn’t work, you need the use the ampersand, so =A3 & ” Hello” makes sense given the…

When you are a startup, your name and your website are going to change quite a bit. Here’s a way to make it all easier. First of all if you use Gsuite, it will be easier since it supports the idea of multiple domains. You can actually have the same…

Doing panoramas with dSLRs seems to be basically a lost art. I have  been using Hugin and then finally paid for PTGui, but there seems to be very little help for how to do this. I think the panorama modes in camera phones have really superseded all the copy and…

I’ve always seen lots of issues with this where the iPhone or the iMac doesn’t seem to connect correctly with various public wifi systems at a Starbucks or at an airport for instance. It is really hard to find any documentation on this, but here is what I’ve learned about…

Ok on my last four Alaska airlines legs, I’ve had three problems. We’ve always liked Alaska and they always seemed like the folks who had to try harder. However there have been changes to their upgrade system for frequent travelers that can definitely leave you stranded. You’ve been warned! Here…