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

Well because of COVID we ended up getting four home filters for various folks and we even got an air quality monitor from kaiterra to monitor it. Net, net these things seem to work. When we didn’t have one on, our internal air quality rose to 84 on US AQI…

Well, now that the RainMachine seems to be working, the next project is at another house where there isn’t any sprinkler built in so how do you build something that can be HomeKit compatible so you can say things like turn the sprinkler on and and other general conditionals. There…

Ok, now that I’ve been on the bike for a year now doing 2,000 miles on an indoor trainer, its hard not to do some study and figure out thresholds for training. There is lactate threshold where your muscles start generating lactate and begin to burn out. The main idea…

Well, if emojis weren’t enough there is a whole new category of symbols so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is a great well happy or smug shrug and in fact iOS 15 will replace the word shrug with this set. It’s called a Kaomoji or face mark because it uses the kanji characters in…

Well if you headed off to Montreal it’s going to be very cold. It’s typically -5 C highs and -13 C so you really need a warm coat. Particularly when the cold winds move in. Or just use the Underground City to get around. But there are some good choices…

For a long time I’ve mainly been trying to get lighter helmets but the latest trend is going aerodynamic. This really matters at higher speeds. Like over 45 Kph. The road bike aero helmet have really evolved and best ones are wind tunnel tested now. This is really important for…

Ok a big problem has been there are so many ways to do scripting and cd/CI pipelines. There are basically three different approaches: Stuff everything into GitHub actions. With Act you can actually run GitHub action locally. So when you combine this with pre-commit you can have a single method…

Ok we have way too many HomePods and recently two really started to act up. One kept on setting off timers and then when we tried to turn them off it would say that none existed. Another kept playing music and when you ask it to stop it would say…

What an annoying beeping and an inscrutable message. Our other alarms beep constantly which I just hate. But this little plug-in co2 system dumps this strange code L6. It should be flashing alternately with the ‘0’ with a short beep every 15 seconds. The indication is to replace the 9v…

With sales of vegan foods on the rise, check the environmental impact of plant-based milks. We’ve been wondering which of the many variants of milk are better Turns out that diary milk is pretty polluting so buying different milk and eating plant base proteins are the way to go. Macadamia…