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

Tl;dr for Steve, if you can you should wait for the M3 versions of the MacBook Air 13″ and 15″. The M3 just launched this fall and it looks like all the MacBook Airs will get updated in 2024, so if you can it’s not a bad idea to wait…

OK, this has been on my list for a long time, I first started by saying I would learn Go first, but that is going to take a long time, with so many blogs that I need to get running right away, I decided to just bite the bullet like…

Well, the thing about MacOS is that when you are out of disk space, it is hard to know what to do, you have a couple of built-in options that are imprecise or slow: Free Disk Inspection One of the nice things the Internet is that there a bunch of…

OK, this is a small but confusing thing. With iCloud, you get a base of 5GB of free storage for each family member. Needless to say this doesn’t last long, with a few two-minute videos, you are going to be a 4GB. So, if you buy the $0.99/month plan you…

OK, now that I’m finished with Darktable, onto making videos with Final Cut Pro so here is version 3 tips and tricks on yet another incredibly deep product, Final Cut Pro Here are the ones that I found (and keep forgetting): If you want to watch the videos that explain…

Well, this is a strange one. Three years ago we had a bunch of instability with WordPress on DigitalOcean because we were running out of memory, so I installed a swapfile with some magic commands. Then two years ago, I had another set of WordPress crashes because certbot on two…

Well, I can’t stand the idea of paying so much for Adobe Lightroom, so I ended up using DxO for years and years, but now DxO is sort of doing the same thing with annual upgrades, so to go from my current DxO 4 to DxO7 is $226, so this…

When you have a site that you’ve been working on and want it to be nice looking, it’s sort of the last thing you have time for. So here are some tips. Figma is a great online design tool that lets you do full wireframes and handle multiple pages. The…

Man, there are just too many things on the Menu bar. I bought and paid for Bartender 5 and I have to say it’s nice that it is so customizable, but it’s a little too customizable, so I’m putting that one away and going back to Dozer. This is the…