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wp: Now make WordPress integrate with Mastodon
This isn’t super well documented but Alex explains it pretty well. As more people try to migrate to the fediverse there are four distinct goals for Mastodon WordPress integration I think in order of difficulty Keeping your content on your site with ActivityPub, Those were the simple things to do, but you can go farther…
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wp: New fix for redis max memory worked!
It took a while for all this to propagate, but looking at the Digital Ocean plots, you can see what was happening was lots of thrashing as the redis cached into the disk-based swapfile. While the memory load remains high at nearly 100%, you can see the CPU utilization has dropped from 75% to more…
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wp: How to fix WordPress crashes due to Redis memory
OK, so after I got the performance of WordPress up to decent with the help of redis and other tricks, this site went from a horrible 9 seconds to a very decent 1.5 seconds. But, I did find that it would become unavailable 4-6 times a day. I thought this was because I had exceeded…
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web: New Google Workspace AI, browser sync, and OLCP fixes
OK, some gentle reminders on making everything work. The first is that if you are using Google Workspace, you currently have to allow Bard for all your users. This also enables Google AI Studio which you can use to manage your prompts for vision and test them and NotebookLM which is similar to the studio…
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Protected: fam: dct4. Rich and Dave debate grandma
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Mac: New life for MacBooks 2010-2017 with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Well, I’ve had some pretty good luck with OCLP to update old Macs to the latest MacOS Ventura, and Sonoma. Right now I’ve got running and it’s a pretty good list. The main thing to do is to make sure you are using the latest Open Core Legacy Patcher. So the idea is you get…
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tech: New 32″ monitor? waiting for next Apple Cinema Display…
OK, this is a painful one, but our trusty Benq BL3200 which five years ago was an amazing 2550p monitor has been rained on (roof leak, argh!) and now has a failure in one of the vertical pixels which is pretty annoying, so time to check out rtings.com and get a replacement before the whole…
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vid: Great Final touches on Final Cut Pro with Faux HDR, Voice Isolation and De-ess in Final Cut Pro
I think I finally have a handle on most of the Final Cut Pro features that I need but didn’t understand six months ago. Here’s a great list that I haven’t found compiled on the Internet somewhere. Faux HDR from SDR video This is copied from the work I do typically with photographic images where…
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wp: Unexpected a Theme can break redis object cache and debug cross-posting
Ok, things seem to be working great, but when I tried to switch from SwipeWP Theme to Pen theme and remove some plugins, I got a redis error, the actual redis object server crashed and even when I rebooted, it crashed again. I’m not sure why, but beware of this, the only way back seems…
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wp: So happy, now adding back in Mastodon plugins
I have a whole host of these which allow amongst other things, the ability to use this server as a Mastodon web client and you can also view this blog as a Mastodon server. Pretty neat, but let’s see if it slows the system down. It takes about 10 seconds now to post (it was…
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wp: Great! All-in-one SEO plugin conflict causes 10x more CPU
OK, now we are getting somewhere, I finally disabled All-in-one SEO because I saw how much resource it took looking at Query Monitor. I noticed that both Monster Insights and SEO All-in-one were putting up Headline suggestions, so I tried that in the quest to keep reducing, and suddenly things are under control. I hope…
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RT5: Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3… Restart Podcast now!
Yes that’s right after a five-month hiatus where I’ve been busy figuring out all things AI and a bunch of new startup ideas, this Christmas break, I’m finally back at it, so here is a quick tour of the new setup. I think the sound is much nicer and also I’m getting a handle on…
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pod: Restarting Podcasts with How to use FCP and OBS
It is incredible how knowledge can fade, I last did a podcast back on July 14, 2023, and am just starting again, I learned a bunch of new things I can’t wait to share and forgot, but here’s a quick list of things that I forgot and finally know how to do:
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wp: Hanging at 70-90%, so try plugin deactivation
Just testing to see what is going on, I installed a bunch of monitoring plugins. One thing that I discovered quickly is that when I rebooted the system, I was constantly at 100% CPU and then on reboot, it dropped down to the more normal 20-40%, but after a little bit, the CPU load shot…
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wp: Be sad, WordPress is 100% CPU and how to fix
Well, as I told you I did a bunch of WordPress work last week to keep the disk from overflowing, but this week, I’m finding that WordPress is stalling at 100% CPU utilization for minutes after a post, so time once again to figure out what is wrong. I did get the general performance down…
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nas: Expert tips on Synology RS2423+ and Snapshot Replication
Well, I spent an entire two weeks figuring this out. The background is that I got a new Synology RS2423+ which is a pretty awesome piece of hardware. It is a 2U rackmount with 12 drive bays. I got it all running and then I hit the first problem. I’ve been using Synology Snapshot Replication.…
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pod: Stupid! Rode NT-1A backward for 3 years
OK, I’m a complete idiot, I remember reading a post about making sure your microphone is not pointed backward. The Rode NT-1A is cardiod directional. As an aside, the NT-1A came out in 2004 and there was an older NT-1, but the currently named NT-1 is actually later and is in its fifth generation ($240…
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Obs: Great Audio from Shure VP83F on Sony A7R3 and Rode NT-1A with FocusRite Scarlett to OBS
OK, I have a Shure V83F shotgun mike on top of our Sony A7R Mark III in our studio setup. With a 50mm F/1.4 lens at about 2.5 meters, it’s the perfect setup for two people. With a 25mm F/2, it works great with four people. One of the hard things though is setting up…
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blog: Testing Activitypub reblogging
Reblog via Rich Tong ❤️????♂️ We also plan to make it so replies from people in the Fediverse can show up for people posting from Threads to the Fediverse. It's a bad experience now that I have to leave the Threads app to see replies I'm getting from the broader community.
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wp: Does ActivityPub makes no difference and what about analytics
OK, now that we have the tongfamily.com site running at about three seconds, this is three times as fast as before (9 seconds), we are getting an 84/100 from Pagespeed and the built-in Boost is showing us at 92/100 for Desktop and 55/100 for Mobile (with JetPack Boost CSS and Javascript plus Image CDN raising…
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wp: Performance tuning continues of Pagespeed and Instagram Widgets
OK, so I read some more posts about how to analyze speed, turns out that the free pagespeed.web.dev is just awesome, it will tell you what’s going on with mobile and desktop. The gtmatrix is also good but unless you pay you are getting a 28-day average which is less useful (except to show how…
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Mac: Buying a MacBook Air for a regular user 2023
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 to get the extra 15%…
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blog: Conversion to Hugo, Netlify, Decap and Cloudinary, and WordPress fix with Super Cache
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 last time and start again.…
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Mac: When your disk is full what to do
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 free utilities that will help…
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tech: Make sure to add Family Sharing when you buy iCloud+
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 get 50GB, the problem is…
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vid: Title Colors and Portrait Videos in Slide shows
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 it, here they are here’s…
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wp: Server down Mysql binlog overflow
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 old multi-user sites that no…
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photo: Darktable tips and tricks
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 made me wonder if I…