Articles by Doug Beney | dougie.io
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August
2022
eBook Launch Case Study: How Doug Made $3000 in 2 Weeks With an Email List of Just 2,500
This post was originally published on CloudLiving.com. In 2016 I launched an eBook all about making MIDI controllers. Since then, I have converted it into...
17
June
2022
How to Enqueue CSS and JS in Wordpress Block Themes (and load it only on CERTAIN templates!)
Block themes are a very promising direction the Wordpress project is taking. I love being able to avoid PHP as much as possible to design...
29
November
2020
How to Fix the 'File not found.' error in Caddy
Caddy server is INCREDIBLY awesome. My main use for it as of late is as a development environment. PHP (wordpress) development environments are a pain...
23
May
2020
How to Use a Trezor Cryptocurrency Wallet On Solus
Getting a Trezor bitcoin wallet to work with Solus is actually quite easy. First, you’re going to need to install Solus’s version of rpm. (It’s...
20
May
2020
On Spotify Forming Exclusive Deals With Podcasts – Joe Rogan, Last Podcast On The Left, more?
Podcasting is a great concept. You can distribute your podcast on multiple platforms and provide one or more RSS feeds. With these RSS feeds you...
8
May
2020
How to Install the Private Internet Access App On Solus
1 Step one is to head on over to the Private Internet Access download page. That’ll give you a .run file. Save it to your...
5
March
2020
The Perfect Desktop Linux Distribution
Update Yeah, so a distro-hopper never settles. The logic is still strong in this post, however I’m still back and fourth on the idea of...
5
February
2020
How to Update All of Your Python Packages With pip Using One Simple Command
Don’t want to read and just want the solution? Click here to jump to the solution pip doesn’t have a built-in command to update all...
5
February
2020
How to Make Bundler Install Gems In Your Home Folder (Instead of In Your Root/System Directories)
Tired of Bundler prompting you for your root password when running bundle install? This one-line command will permanently solve your woes. bundle config --global path...
20
July
2019
"Could Not Connect" Airpods + Kindle Paperwhite FIX (Works with Kindle Oasis too)
I just got a Kindle Paperwhite that supports Audible. At first I had no luck connecting it to bluetooth. The error was something along the...
13
July
2019
Here's How to Open a Terminal App in Your Current Emacs Working Directory
So you want to open a terminal from Emacs. While Emacs comes with various modes such as shell, ansi-term, and eshell, sometimes you just want...
16
January
2019
How to run the Django Shell in Emacs
Demo Code (defun django-shell () (interactive) (let ((python-shell-interpreter (read-file-name "Locate manage.py ")) (python-shell-interpreter-args "shell")) (run-python (python-shell-calculate-command) nil t))) Commentary I was looking for an easy...
5
August
2018
How to Indent a Selection in Emacs
Creating a keybinding The most intuitively way I have found to indent your selection in Emacs is with the following keybinding: (global-set-key (kbd "C->") 'indent-rigidly-right-to-tab-stop)...
3
August
2018
Vue-Router Blank Page? Here's The Fix
So, there’s no error. Just a blank page. You can’t find any obvious typos and your code looks quite indentical to the documentation. Here are...
18
July
2018
Using Lisp to Help With Tasks Such as...Creating Spreadsheet Formulas?
Writing big Excel/Libreoffice formulas can be a pain. They’re all meant to be one line and unfortunately you’re sometimes forced to duplicate big, repetitive code...
18
July
2018
Formula to Get a Domain Name from a URL in Libreoffice, Excel, and Google Sheets (With Generator!)
Enter the cell that contains your URL and the formula to get the domain name will be generated below. Javascript is disabled in your browser!...
16
July
2018
The Ultimate Guide To Indentation in Emacs (Tabs and Spaces)
TL;DR: The Full Configuration: Breaking It Down Functions for Enabling/Disabling tabs Using Tabs or Spaces in Different Files Changing the tab width Making Indentation Behave...
29
June
2018
A Flawless i3wm experience on a HiDPI/Retina display
Create / Edit ~/.Xresources with the following values: Xft.dpi: 192 URxvt.font: xft:FiraMono-Regular:size=10 Xft.autohint: 0 Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.rgba: rgb Create...
10
June
2018
How to Get Vim to Use the Background color of your Terminal Emulator instead of the colorscheme
So, you’d like to get Vim to use the syntax colors from your colorscheme but you would like the background to match the color of...
10
June
2018
How To Set Up Qt5 & Qt Creator on Fedora
Step 1: Install the Qt5 Developer libraries sudo dnf install qt5-devel Step 2: Change your qmake location Change your qmake location from /usr/bin/qmake-qt5.sh to /usr/bin/qmake-qt5,...
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