Tong Family

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(Continue Reading)

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(Continue Reading)

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(Continue Reading)

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(Continue Reading)

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(Continue Reading)

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(Continue Reading)

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(Continue Reading)

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(Continue Reading)

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(Continue Reading)