Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

Yikes, you can get this error on your own site if you (like me!) sometimes forget your passwords and use an automatic connection like Scribefire. In my case, I mistyped the password so Better WP Security locks my own IP out. Now when I try to access tongfamily.com, I get…

Well if you are getting late into Boston airport and don’t feel like riding the T until 1AM, then what are your options: The Taxi cab quote is $95 out to the suburbs A check of Uber gives you $65, but you can’t do this in advance and make sure…

OK, I got the dreaded, turn on your MacBook Pro with Retina and it boots to a black screen. Yikes! The fix appears to be to do a PRAM reset. There are lots of other suggestions, but you basically hit the on and then hit Command-P-R until you hear the…

Hey these sites really do work. Got a notice last night from Zooalert.com and Nowinstock.net that there was a PS4 that you could buy on Gamestop and it actually worked. Good to try for those hard to find items. The Gamestop store was really slow and hung several times (man…

Alex told me that you could use “VI” commands with it and that got me to wondering about Sublime and what I was missing. Quite a lot. First decision is using Sublime 3 or 2. I’m going to try Sublime 3 for a while. Now I was wondering how to…

And didn’t have the foresight to preorder. Well, use Zoolert or Nowinstock to get a notification. Amazing that things sell out online in 3 minutes!

An offhand remark about why some code was going to get implemented as a sea of events and handlers and wouldn’t a state machine be a better way. So what is it anyway? A few months ago I saw a great little blog post about state machines on the Shopify…

Sigh, becoming more dependent on Netflix and got this error: netflix an error occurred loading this content Not too much help, but folks suggested: I was having the same issue with Netflix and HBO GO. Go to Settings > General > Restart. That worked for me. If that doesn’t work,…

With 4K displays running at $3K (?!!), the sweet spot in displays looks like the so called 2560×1440 display (compared with the 1920 x 1080 of 1080p fame). We are in the funny phase where the move to 4K is still too expensive with a gap to the 1080p which…