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More fun for posts as for February 28 and back to January 5 2021: Git madness and pull request splitting https://tongfamily.com/2021/02/28/github-madness-what-happens-if-you-do-not-protect-main/ Olive oil shopping from wishlist https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/3PBCKT8DWZ7HR?type=wishlist&_encoding=UTF8&tag=rich20-20 Zoom hacks for multiple windows. Mars 2020 Perseverance videos and things. Richt starts a substack newsletter at https://richt.substack.com What to do when your computer get hacked. Cool keyboard oriented apps like Superhuman, fzf and rg plus Vimari Tips for Tesla winter travel. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/richt/message

Well continuing the basically weekly podcast. I skipped Sunday because it was Valentine's day, but hopefully will stay on the every Sunday track. The main thing is that I go through the newest posts and then go through the back catalog of posts (I have 5,000 of them, so this should work for a looong time!). Net, net, here is what is covered and we are current up to January 14, 2021: Making a Podcast: Noise Gate and Routined. More tips on keeping the room quiet. Git Bash Completion. I actually skipped this one, it is way too nerdy to write talk about :-) but if you care read about Bash completions Two Internet Providers and Home networking. Making sure your network is fast and should you get another ISP? Tesla Model 3 Replacement Wipers Blades. Get the Bosch Aerotwin A102s! Webscraping with Python, Selenium and Beautiful Soup. See this Deepnote Notebook on my trials and tribulations. Dealing with Emojis in Vim and on the Mac. Using ⌃+⌘+Spacebar and :boom: with vim-emoji and <C-X><C-U>:boom: Cable Modem High Latency. Covered in the ISP thing above Flaky monitors. When it turns out it is really just hardware Notes for Windows Users buying a MacBook Air --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/richt/message

Welcome to the February 6 episode of Rich's Tongfamily Tips, Tricks and Traps in Technology. You can always see the written posts on https://tongfamily.com, but included here are: Understanding Robinhood, Gamestop and settlements Anaconda is a great virtual environment with a big leak Distributing your podcast manually when Anchor.fm doesn't Moving to Jupyter, Python and Pandas when Excel is too small Moving from Windows to Mac, what's all this then about Computer Accounts Drooling over the Sony A1 camera and the Tesla Model S Plaid + Updating your HomePod manually and using Airplay 2 to control the speakers Easy Logo creating for startups  Installing a Ubiquiti Unifi network for noobs Cleaning your Yucky mechanical keyboard --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/richt/message

Here the latest from https://tongfamily.com including: Some more tips and tricks for moving from Windows to the Mac.  There are lots of differences, so here's a decoder ring. Voice phishing. Hopefully you are not that person who answers the call and loses your bank account. here is what to do about it. Moving to JAMStack. An overview of the move from WordPress to Jamstack with Hugo and Netlify and the reasons why. Apple Watch. What to look forward to and all the new health features they added since Series 3. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/richt/message

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 list https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1O229YTA3ZUGG?ref_=wl_share --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/richt/message

More random stuff about Dell Rewards, buying a UPS. Not putting diesel into a gas car or vice versa. And some tips on becoming an Apple corporate developer. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/richt/message

Our first episode is a trial and all about everything you can read on https://tongfamily.com first up is a note about the latest car thief trick, using a simple $20 box to hijack your passive remote entry and steal your ride. Yikes! And what to do about it. Leave comments at podcast@tongfamily.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/richt/message