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Continue reading →: Tips and Tricks on getting your new company up and run-in non the web
It’s been a while, but reading from last week, the main focus has been getting a website up and running. From finding a new name on Namecheap to connecting it to Digital Ocean or AWS Route 53 and then GSuite. See https://tongfamily.com for the text posts. For the Amazon book…
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Continue reading →: AWS Route 53 and .AI Domain weirdness
I’ve been slowly moving my organizational stuff to either AWS or Digital Ocean and just had a strange thing. Normally it’s pretty simple. If you have Namecheap, you just to to Route53 on AWS, choose create Hosted Zones. This is their name for a Domain Name. You will get some…
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Continue reading →: 1Password 7.4.3 on Mac App Store to handle 2FA
I hit this bug at just the wrong time. But with two factor authentication turned on (and you really want 2FA for something like 1Password), I was getting a strange hang. Fortunately, their message board is awesome and you just need to upgrade to the latest Mac App Store version…
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Continue reading →: The Weirdness that is 1Password Family Accounts
If you have a small startup or a family, 1Password is an awesome tool. For $5/month, you get a very secure zero-knowledge system for storing passwords. The main issue is that it is pretty complicated to figure out how to use it properly. So here are some tips: You are…
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Continue reading →: Readings on Philosophy and other great books
Well if you are on a desert island or recovering from a surgery, what a great time to catch up on reading (or if you are like me, listening to a book tape while driving). Here are some great sources: Readings on philosophy. Hat tip to Keith for this one,…
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Continue reading →: Transferring domains NameCheap to godaddy
Ok I’ve been buying a bunch of domain names for folks. Namecheap makes it makes it super easy to buy new domains and there are so many new top level domains that it’s never been easier to find a good one. So how do you transfer a domain well there…
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Continue reading →: Adding a new site to WordPress Multisite and Gsuite
Ok assuming you have the following stack of providers: Namecheap for registration of your domain name of new.com Digital Ocean for running your droplet with the WordPress installation at host.com Digital Ocean for the DNS service for new.com and for www.new.com. Go to the control panel and go to Network/Manage…
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Continue reading →: Bluehost email down again
Ok something changed with iOS and MacOS so now with Bluehost mail we are getting all these SSL errors. See https://my.bluehost.com/hosting/email_manager/config for your personal configuration. In looking at the instructions, it looks like with non-SSL. Which you never want to use, you use `mail.domain.com` for your domain, this then maps…
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Continue reading →: Never getting another laptop without cellular access (aka I can’t get Personal Hotspot to work)
Argh, this is so frustrating. I had an unusual two hours between meetings today and it didn’t make sense to go home. So I thought I would try the T-Personal Hotspot that is on both my phone and my iPad. While I absolutely love the iPad with the cellular. Yes,…
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Continue reading →: So what’s all this then about Starlink and SpaceX
Well, while I’ve been following Tesla very closely, I’ve only been peripherally aware of what is going on with SpaceX. Obviously, they are really shaking up the launch business and someday we will go to Mars because of them, but more practically, what they are doing with Starlink promises to…