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

I had a great conversation with a long lost buddy and it reminded me of passion and wanting to follow it. It reminded me some of the things that are really important to me: True friends and family. As one fellow put it. Not acquaintances or “business” friends but people…

So some quick notes on cool ideas: Docker-machine is only designed to work on a single client. So if you want multiple users or you have a home and work machine it is actually very hard to get the configuration right. There is a magic configuration json that does this…

I’ve been using (gasp!) google slides for a while now and it is pretty decent. But now I need to do a simple mockup of a web site to put into the deck. As usually, the list of tools is incredibly long, but starting from creativebloq.com I’m working through the…

TL;dr For web demos, use docker and docker-compose to bring up your entire system on your local Macbook. For hardware demos, use a big beefy wireless router and your phone as a hotspot to blow through and create your own network. Web Demos These days basically everyone has to do…

Well after you read the tutorial on docker, you find that there are least 1M ways that people build docker images. In trolling through the docker.com and github.com, here are the best practices: Believe in micro services. If you are putting more than one major function into a container, you…

Ok there is a place that is actually beyond the bleeding edge and I guess I’m right there. Fortunately there are amazing folks like Luxas, Rhess and the folks at Hypriot that are right there with me, but here is what I’ve learned about docker and its internals and how…

Wow getting back to copying CDs and FLACs. I had completely forgotten which tools to use. Well a quick Google let to a Reddit thread and a cool tool XLD which does what you want. Does FLAC decoding and encoding. Also handles file naming properly. Awesome!

Well if you somehow can’t afford the $128K Pascal server that nVidia just announced (I can’t imagine why), what should someone do if they want to do some machine learning? Well, unfortunately, there are no cheap good alternatives right now as we are in the middle of the Maxwell to…

It is a good idea to monitor your credit scores and it used to cost a fortune to do it. Fortunately if you have a Discover card or have a Bank of America account, you can do this for free. So good luck!

Well if you have a corrupted JPEG, how do you get it back? http://thelawlers.com/Blognosticator/?p=795 points out that Adobe Photoshop has a built in recovery application. So if you have something that doesn’t open in Mac Preview, try to load it in Adobe Photoshop. I tried this and although the image…