Computing

Evolus Pencil Quick Tip: How to Group Items (Especially Sketchy GUI)

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What is Evolus Pencil? Evolus Pencil (not to be confused with Apple Pencil, Pencil Sketch, or Pencil Code) is a great open source mockup and design application for Windows. It is has an easy to use drag-and-drop interface and it’s closest competitors are probably Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, and charting applications like draw.io and LucidChart. […]

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Regex Tutorial: Converting Dates in Filenames With Bulk Rename Utility (Perl PCRE)

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Regular Expressions (Date Matching and Conversion) – Perl 5 and Bulk Rename Utility. I occasionally find myself modifying my digital photo naming convention, and subsequently end up having to rename a lot of photos (thousands!). The best program that I have found for renaming is called Bulk Rename Utility (BRU). BRU is lightweight, powerful, and

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WordPress Tutorial: Update Plugins, Themes, and WP Core

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This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to easily and quickly update plugins, themes, and WordPress core (what we mean when we say “install WordPress”). In the video I show you several ways to update plugins, themes, and one way to update core. Also, I show

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WordPress Tutorial: How to Install, Configure, and Remove Plugins

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This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to install, configure, and remove WordPress plugins. Plugins are extra modules that you can add to your WordPress website to enhance functionality. WordPress core is an awesome framework for easily creating and maintaining your own website. But, core can

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WordPress Tutorial: How to Add & Remove Posts

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This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to add and remove new posts. If you found this video helpful, please leave a comment below! 🙂 HAVE AN IDEA FOR A VIDEO? I love sharing my knowledge with others, and by sharinging and communicating in a loving

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WordPress Tutorial: How to Install & Manage Widgets

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This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to install, configure, remove, and manage WordPress widgets. Widgets are extra modules that are either included with WordPress core or are added by installed plugins. Plugins add functionality to a basic, stock WordPress website, often by providing configurable modules

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WordPress Tutorial: Create New Blog Post [Basics]

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This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to create and publish a simple blog post. In the video I show you a few places that you can create a new blog post from in the WordPress dashboard. I demonstrate inserting images and graphics, formatting text as

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WordPress Tutorial: How To Download and Install WordPress [Basics]

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This WordPress administration tutorial is for self-hosted WordPress websites and is intended to teach users how to download and install WordPress core on a remote server or web host. In this tutorial I cover how to download and install WordPress core to a remote server (your webhost or ISP). Steps to download and install a

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Project: Exporting your Google Plus page followers to CSV with JavaScript ES6

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This is a side project I did based on a a question I was asked to answer on Quora. In this project, we look at possible ways to export, extract, or grab information about users from our Google+ followers page. We ultimately use JavaScript in a browser console to scape user information using ECMAScript 6

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