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Or, “How I found out WordPress wasn’t sending emails anymore” Recently (embarrassingly recently) I enabled 2FA on my Zoho email account. You can use BitWarden… Read More »Using Zoho for WordPress emails? Use an App Specific Password
January wrap-up Since this doesn’t appear in my own previous ‘tips to myself‘ I’m documenting it to myself here: The option for disabling wrapping is:… Read More »pandoc micro tip: disabling line wrap / newlines
Add, remove- we’ve got both! Context When making videos in Blender’s VSE I use a lot of text sequences for captions and the like. Doing… Read More »Quicker Text Editing in Blender (Part 7): QTE Beta Release
Tasty tasty guacamole tl;dr: Some parts of another guide no longer work, the biggest pitfall is execution permission on the directory of the database init… Read More »Installing Apache guacamole with Docker & Traefik (avoiding pitfalls)
Why do I need to change the pilot in command anyway? tl;dr: if and only if your problem is the wrong pyenv being used when… Read More »[solved] Building OBS in Linux: “recompile with -fPIC”
There’s the keymap (shakes head and frowns); and the keymap (smiles and nods) Context When making videos in Blender’s VSE I work with a lot… Read More »Quicker Text Editing in Blender (Part 6): Saving Preferences and The ‘Right’ Keymap
If you’re still using Google Hangouts, no you’re not About a week ago I ran into a weird issue in bitlbee, which I raised in… Read More »PSA: Hangouts is deprecated and no longer works in bitlbee
Get out of my house! tl;dr Set is_active to f in the database, then run the ‘delete all unactivated accounts’ task (? jump to postgres… Read More »Mass-delete / remove / purge users in Gitea
*Functional intermission with light background jazz* Context I use Blender’s VSE to edit videos, and I am trying to speed up working with text sequences,… Read More »Quicker Text Editing in Blender (Part 5): QTE Alpha Release
“First, let’s take a look at the Preferences. What are your… preferences?” Context I use Blender‘s VSE to make highlight videos, which involves editing a… Read More »Quicker Text Editing in Blender (Part 4): User Preferences