More election distraction… Well, I’ve been, for over 15 years WordPress and it’s probably time to leave the family. A Brief history of tongfamily.com Originally, tongfamily.com started in 1996 with FrontPage Extensions. Then in 2003, I finally had some time and switched to Ben and Mina Tratt and their Movable Type in 2003 blogging platform […]
Tag: github
GitHub-fu from master to main and handling upstream quickly
Now that GitHub has made the transition from master (good-bye slavery!), all existing repos need to change otherwise you will never remember if you should git checkout master or main. Fortunately the steps are pretty easy: Rename your local branch from master to main with git branch -m master main where I think -m means […]
Making email the proper center again
What a mess this quarantine lifestyle is. I have literally half a dozen channels I have to monitor from email to Slack to iMessage to Whatsapp to Signal to Teams. Then I have notifications from a host of products from Mac Calendar to Github to Trello. So one thing about this exploration of different mailers […]
Forking a Private Repo
Wow this is now amazingly complicated as Github probably for very good security reasons, so here are the steps if you are creating a new organization: Go to the Organization and in Setting turn on Private forks so that you don’t accidentally Then in each Repo, go to settings and turn on forking. Also security […]