Gotchas are oopsies, uh-ohs and other knowings that aren’t intuitive about a particular concept. They can be linguistic, functional, or other.
Synonyms:
things to know
This is just a quick tip about how to use YouTube-DL to download entire video playlists from YouTube. I find this software very useful because you never know when a playlist you’ve bookmarked is all of a sudden going to be removed. In some cases — before I discovered this software — I found hidden, […]
Quick Tip: Download Entire Playlist with YouTube-DL CLI Read More »
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.
Evolus Pencil Quick Tip: How to Group Items (Especially Sketchy GUI) Read More »
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
Regex Tutorial: Converting Dates in Filenames With Bulk Rename Utility (Perl PCRE) Read More »
Picture this. You just finished building a very basic WordPress website using any one of several popular contact form plugins including WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Pirate Forms, or the old stalwart (and arguably the easiest contact form plugin to set up and configure), Contact Form 7. Maybe you’ve designed a detailed custom contact form
Contact Form 7 Broken on WordPress – GoDaddy, MS Exchange Email Spam Issues Likely Cause Read More »
I’ve spent the last 2 hours reading an interesting bug report/forum thread about how executing commands which require quotes and variables in PowerShell is difficult (this was originally posted on Microsoft Connect, which no longer exists; replaced with archive.org link). I’m trying to understand how to properly quote commands with parameters and interpolated paths so
