Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

Sam was asking.. so here they are. I used to use consumer reports for this but lately I’ve found Wirecutter is a pretty good review. The LL Bean is a good one.. After years of researching bedsheets—from cotton to flannel and everywhere in between—we’ve found the best sets no matter…

This sure isn’t easy, beside making sure that not every application snarfs your GPS what can you do. Well quite a bit actually, here are some recommendations: Be careful about the permissions and what applications you load. Lots of application will ask, “can I use your GPS even when I’m…

I’ve been using Oakley Evolutions for literally 20 years. Got them and they have lasted a long time, but the truth is they are a little small on the face and not photo sensitive, so they are either too light or too dark. The nosepiece also kept falling off, but…

Well still kind of a mess, but tongfamily.com now safely lives on a DigitalOcean droplet. It did crash once and I had to restart the Droplet, but hopefully that was because I’m munging on other things. If you have your own wordpress installation, here are recommendations: If you want simplicity,…

Two handy tools can help you determine if all those gushing reviews are the real deal. Try Fakespot and Reviewmeta — Read on www.cnet.com/how-to/spot-fake-reviews-amazon-best-buy-walmart/

If you are a nerd, and have range anxiety, how do you know how much charge you will really need. Here’s a way to figure it out Get a login to teslafi.com. It tracks your real world performance in minute detail. In particular it tracks the major variables like temperature…

I don’t know quite how or when I turned this on, but it turns out Bluehost has a very nice single configuration to sue Letsencrypt to get a free SSL certificate. But if you have their Sitelock tool on, then SSL doesn’t work and you can’t access it. I have…

I’ve been playing around with K8s and it is so attractive to just utter ​helm install stable/wordpress and get a running WordPress installation. But https://blog.ropnop.com/attacking-default-installs-of-helm-on-kubernetes/ warns us that you can get into real trouble here because tiller which is the server side piece of helm is unprotected, so any exploited pod…

On to getting the right plugins so that it is easy to clone the environment. Some notes on keeping the minimal number of plugins and therefore surface area on attacks I’ve been using lots of different plugins, but the WordPress JetPack seems to keep growing and it is free, so…