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wp: giving up on Cloudways SSL last straw
Well, I’m nearly through my journey, the new Digital Ocean site is working well. It is sad I couldn’t upgrade the old one, but that’s the price of bare metal. The site I’m giving up on is Cloudways. I finally navigated through most of the problems, but the one that finally was the last straw…
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usb: Best USB C Cables and Magnetic adapter for a MacBook Air
Dave asked me what to get, well, I’ve been going through USB C cables like crazy and finally have found a reasonable combination for a MacBook Air is: MacBook Air Maximum Charging with iPhone The last thing to think about is the charger size. The default MacBook Air charger is 30W, but if you get…
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wp: Redis Ubuntu Installation and PHP Opcode cache
OK, I spent a lot of time trying to figure both the Redis cache which caches various HMTL elements and the lower level PHP Opcode cache. For instance making sure there is no swap file so that Redis doesn’t thrash caching to disk instead of memory. Right now depending on the host, I’m using three…
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wp: InMotion Hosting 508 Resource Limit and VPN Blocking Cpanel
Well, I found the first issue with InMotion, I’m trying to auto post from tongfamily.com to three other servers (calvintong.com, richtong.com and richtong.org) and I got a 508 Resource limit error. I’ve never seen this before, you can look at Inmotion AMP > Cpanel > Resource Usage and it says You have reached the entry…
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wp: More headaches PHP 8.3 on DigitalOcean Ubuntu 22.04
OK, as I finally get the following configurations in order. Note that from previous experience, we need at least a 2GB RAM server to not constantly run out of memory Upgrade 22.04 to PHP 8.3 for the system How to make the PHP 8.3 work is a little complicated, first make sure it is up…
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wp: Digital Ocean Reserved IP Strangeness even if not the DNS Server, Litespeed fail, Cloudways ugh
oK, this is a strange one, so a quick note if you hit it. I’m trying to get a Digital Ocean WordPress up and no matter what I did it didn’t see to work. I”m using Netlify as the DNS Server but it would never recognize the new IP address that I had set up…
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apple: Utterly confusing sharing AirPods from a single iPhone or iPad
This is such a cool gesture, but I have to confess I simply always forget how to use it. No, you can’t find it in settings or anywhere sane like that. Even the Apple instructions are super unclear but here is exactly what to do: So that’s not too bad. What is unclear is how…
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tvl: Tessan 140W, Satechi 145W and Anker MagGo blinking and Cable Strangeness
OK, I’ve been trying to reduce my kit while traveling a lot and the Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger seems like a wonderful thing if I can figure out how to make it work as does the Belkin 3-in-1 Travel charger with the same issues. Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger: Wait for it to ramp…
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Blog: Life Beyond WordPress to JAMStack
As I’ve mentioned, I’m trying to get to a stable WordPress for a long time and maybe this time I’ll do it. JAMStack is creatingly better for vanity sites, but maybe this time for my blog as well. Well, just before the pandemic, I tried to get out of WordPress by going to a go-based…
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vid: Final Cut Pro Slideshow Tips: Portraits, Ken Burns, Panos, Transitions, Horizons, Zoom, HLG vs PQ
I have a huge number of things I’ve forgotten about Final Cut Pro, but in producing a nice slide show, here are the things I keep forgetting. By the way, I actually have a playlist for all these tricks for Podcasting, OBS, Final Cut Pro, and Logic Pro on YouTube which I use when I…
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pod: Rich and Steven talk AI as of end of August
There’s been a hiatus mainly because we’ve been shipping products, but more because I lost all my skills at making new videos. I was stuck for a long time on Drop Zones and doing a better intro and outro, but that’s a digression for Final Cut Pro nerds. In this episode, we cover the latest…
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vid: Final Cut Pro review, combine audio/video, make intros, drop zones
Man, this tool is just so complicated. I haven’t created an intro for six months and have completely forgotten all the things I’ve learned in: The latest tricks: Combining audio and video clips This is pretty unintuitive as well. Basically, if you say have a video effect and you want to marry it with say…
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dev: Move from poetry to uv
Thanks to Rakuto, I’ve made the switch from Poetry which was nice and worked well to uv which is from the folks at Astral, and even faster. The move to ruff and uv has been great although a bit of work. Here are some notes: Direnv virtual environments The trickiest part is that poetry and…
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Av: Final Audio Type E ear tips and Linsoul Tripowin Amber cables Rock!
Well I love my MOONDROP variations (Linsoul has them as does Amazon) but the stock ear tips let quite a bit of sound in and the stock cable is pretty stiff. On the internet I found great reviews for the final audio series E ($24 from Linsoul and Amazon) and the Spinfit CP155 (Large at…
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Dev: Vim magic substitutions, macros and yank buffers
I have been hacking away at Vim for a long time. There will be a long post on using Lazyvim for incredible power, but even the basic vim is crazy powerful. So as I’m writing lots of code right now Yank buffers I keep forgetting many of these commands, but if you want to to…
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home: the mysteries of alarm.com logins
Ok, I kind of wanted to just use Apple Home and Aqara for alarm systems but it turns out just to he too much maintenance and Apple home isn’t stable enough nor is there a way to be monitoring. It works decently well but the application is beyond confusing. There are some key concepts that…
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run: Salomon S/Lab Ultra 3, ADV Skin 12 and Speedcross 6
Well, thanks to Alex and Calvin, I’ve ended up getting back into running and it is nice to do the “grandpa shuffle” and be back into good cardio. They also showed me how great a hydration vest can be compared with a bladder. So overall, it’s time to upgrade gear to be on the road.…
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mac: Getting 4K HDR 60/120Hz 4:4:4 on LG B9 and Apple Silicon
Well, I’ve had lots of posts about this over the years and it is a confusing topic. But, basically here is what you need: Why go through this brain damage? Need for more ports It’s because I need more Thunderbolt 4 ports. CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 dock, I have attached it to a Razer Thunderbolt 4…
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dev: pipenv leftovers and neovim
OK, this is a strange one, I switch from using pipenv to asdf and poetry which is great for python and other virtual environments. Poetry and asdf are much faster and works per directory unlike condo, but one of the results is that neovim can get confused. Even though I never activate pipenv ever, with…
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dev: Markdown editor for Mac
It is surprisingly difficult to find a simple Markdown editor that can deal with Git Flavored Markdown and the latest Mermaid.js. I have this running in vim with MarkdownPreview, but if you just want to view a rendered README.md, what’s the simplest way: There are some nominal chargeapps like Typora which I might try, but…
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tech: 1Password for Safari hang
Wow, what a strange problem. 1Password has been pretty reliable for me and the Safari extension has never given trouble, but two days ago, I got to the point where Safari would open, then the keyboard would lock and the Safari menu bar changed to the 1Password menu items. Very strange. I don’t know what…
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bike: Rebooting bike electronics Lumos, Stages, Garmin, Hammerhead
Well, I haven’t ridden my bike outside in over 18 months and with all this electronic gear, it is a mountain of work to get it running again, so here are some notes on getting: Shimano Dii 11-Speed Shifting Shimano DII 11-speed Derailleur. This one is a little cranky. You plug the two-prong power adapter…
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tech: USB RF Dongle Keychron Q2 Max
OK, I had this problem where the high-speed USB RF dongle failed on my Keychron. Those folks have great support and asked me what the serial number is. Just beware that unlike many products, the Q2 Max doesn’t have a serial number on the keyboard itself, you have to make sure to keep the box.…
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tech: Too many Keyboards Keychron, NuPhy, GMK…
You know you have too many keyboards when you forget the four builds you’ve done and how they are constructed, so here’s a review of current keyboards and this is an update to my 2022 rankings of my daily drivers: So here are the keyboards that I’ve been using by ranking. The big change is…
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net: On UniFi, do not turn up RSSI too high
Well after that long post about RSSI levels, I learned something important which is that if you set the RSSI too high, I have too low a value then you have the following problems: So the net is that I turned up all the APs to -67 and the result was that even though the…
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net: A day spent fixing three (subtle) UniFi network bugs
OK, I spent a very profitable Saturday finally figuring out some things about the Ubiquiti UniFi network that we have. As UniFi has become more focused on enterprise deployments, the interface has become more powerful and also harder to figure out how to use for simple cases, but here are the three lessons I’ve learned.…
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tech: Boneheaded manuveurs to avoid for USB and Synology
OK, I’ve two boneheaded things I’ve done this month. This is embarrassing because my last silly mistake was burning out half the USB C ports on my MacBook Pro 2017 by buying an off-brand USB dongle. Synology Loops Creation and RSTP and not STP OK, this is a strange one, if you have a switch…
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home: truly bizarre problems, never move your HomePod to New house without removing it from Apple Home
This works be obvious but amazingly I’ve not found it noted on the internet. But one issue is that if you move Apple home devices from one home to another some truly bizarre things happen. I moved three HomePods, an Aqara hub and a safe alert fire alarm. The confusing thing is that even though…
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tech: NuPhy Gem 80 on 2.4GHz USB RF
I’ve been moving devices off of Bluetooth because of this strange problem with my Shure TWS2 where I get glitching and I have no less than three keyboards each with their 2.4GHz USG-RF dedicated dongle. So I found an old USB 3.0 hub (actually two, one no longer acts as a hub but charges, and…
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av: Paradise found Thieaudio Monarch Mk II, Schitt Audio Vali 2+, Modi+, Shure TW2, Moondrop VARIATIONS
Ok, in the adventures of being a dance look alike, I ended up wanting a great set of in-ear monitors. Many people are not sure about Crinacle, but I have to say his sound tastes are close to mine. I’m not a bass-heavy kind of person and am trying to protect my high-end hearing (still…