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

If you are starting a company, it’s easy to get lost in a blizzard of paper and email attachments. Resist the temptation not to worry too much about it, because this is one case where a few simple procedures will make life way, way, way easier later. Everyone is going…

Wow it would be ugly but adding 860W from an on car solar array would be pretty awesome. It won’t get you far but 860W x 8 hours is 6.4kWh or about 8% of a Model 3 AWD. And 8% is 24 miles so not nothing. Hat tip to hackaday.com/2019/07/10/using-super-efficient-solar-cells-to-keep-your-electric-cars-battery-topped-up/

bikerumor.com/2019/07/09/defeet-evo-disruptor-wind-tunnel-tested-most-aero-cycling-sock-ever/ Now I’ve heard everything. Saving 8 watts by wearing special stippled socks. Way easier than getting 5% fitter 🙂

Well, most of the time range in a EV doesn’t matter, but if you are planning a road trip where chargers are scare or where you are being aggressive. Or you are just a plain nerd, here’s a way to ping pong between Teslafi.com and Abetterrouteplanner.com to figure out what…

Here’s some retro advice that Mark reminded me about. It’s been tempting to get a cheap inkjet like the OfficeJet from Costco. But most of the time it doesn’t make sense. First the cost of consumables is outrageous. It’s a razor blade business. You can try to use off brand…

If you are a most cyclists, I’d really suggest sticking with Wahoo bike computers. Garmin are nice hardware but just too complicated to have it pair it. The biggest reason still to get one is because their Radar is just really cool and important if there is lots of traffic.…

Well it’s gotten way more complicated, but here’s the 2019 update on what to do. Now this won’t for everything and it will break some sites, but some good recommendations (with notes on issues) are: Cloak your DNS. Believe it or not ISPs do track what requests you are making.…

Ok just did the first part of a trip. We were off because of the rain by a little bit the model 3 was way off. The 265wh/ mi was way off as an estimate. We got that on the mainly flat super highway but with more load it was…

These are awesome jackets but the codes are bizarre. They have literally a n x m matrix of names. But here is what I’ve learned. They have product likes like Alpha and then a two character designation like these for hard shells: SL for super light. FL for fast and…

Wow this is a complicated topic, but learning from Sam, one of the unsung cores to good software development is reproducibility. On any machine, you should be able to run and not have dependencies in software get you. But, there is a cost to full reproducibility. At the limit having…