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

Yes that’s right after a five-month hiatus where I’ve been busy figuring out all things AI and a bunch of new startup ideas, this Christmas break, I’m finally back at it, so here is a quick tour of the new setup. I think the sound is much nicer and also…

It is incredible how knowledge can fade, I last did a podcast back on July 14, 2023, and am just starting again, I learned a bunch of new things I can’t wait to share and forgot, but here’s a quick list of things that I forgot and finally know how…

Just testing to see what is going on, I installed a bunch of monitoring plugins. One thing that I discovered quickly is that when I rebooted the system, I was constantly at 100% CPU and then on reboot, it dropped down to the more normal 20-40%, but after a little…

Well, as I told you I did a bunch of WordPress work last week to keep the disk from overflowing, but this week, I’m finding that WordPress is stalling at 100% CPU utilization for minutes after a post, so time once again to figure out what is wrong. I did…

Well, I spent an entire two weeks figuring this out. The background is that I got a new Synology RS2423+ which is a pretty awesome piece of hardware. It is a 2U rackmount with 12 drive bays. I got it all running and then I hit the first problem. I’ve…

OK, I’m a complete idiot, I remember reading a post about making sure your microphone is not pointed backward. The Rode NT-1A is cardiod directional. As an aside, the NT-1A came out in 2004 and there was an older NT-1, but the currently named NT-1 is actually later and is…

OK, I have a Shure V83F shotgun mike on top of our Sony A7R Mark III in our studio setup. With a 50mm F/1.4 lens at about 2.5 meters, it’s the perfect setup for two people. With a 25mm F/2, it works great with four people. One of the hard…

OK, now that we have the tongfamily.com site running at about three seconds, this is three times as fast as before (9 seconds), we are getting an 84/100 from Pagespeed and the built-in Boost is showing us at 92/100 for Desktop and 55/100 for Mobile (with JetPack Boost CSS and…

OK, so I read some more posts about how to analyze speed, turns out that the free pagespeed.web.dev is just awesome, it will tell you what’s going on with mobile and desktop. The gtmatrix is also good but unless you pay you are getting a 28-day average which is less…