Tongfamily (Richtong.com Sync)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…