I had never heard of Bitbucket before to be honest. Turns out it’s a kind of ‘private repository thing’. And you can get a free account to start. Pretty nice. I was asked to ‘put your files into Bitbucket’ by a development company. I didn’t know how so I figured I’d just figure it out and then make a blog…
Category: Business
CRAZY 550 VERIFICATION FAILED NO SUCH USER SENDER VERIFY FAILED PROBLEM AND SOLUTION
THE PROBLEM I wanted to walk through the play-by-play because this was not a normal troubleshooting episode and I feel someone else is going to discover this post and be glad to save the time I lost. Spoiler alert: The problem was old cpanel records! But it’s worth spending the time going through this post in detail… I also wanted…
How to fix pdf engine error problem in pandoc in ubuntu
Intro All I wanted to do was to convert a markdown (.md) file to pdf for crying out loud. I heard it was possible and good to use pandoc. For years I ran the command I was supposed to. Looks like this: pandoc input.md -o output.pdf But all I got was this: pdflatex not found. Please select a different –pdf-engine…
How to Get Rid of Line End Spacing when Pasting from PDF to Libre Office
Backdrop I was pasting text from a PDF to a LibreOffice Writer doc. At the end of each line is an annoyng space. I had to either a) manually erase those spaces or b) find a better way. Hopefully this ‘better way’ will help you since it was oddly a bit hard to figure out. Solution This post ultimately contained…
Planning Your Yunohost Install for Small Business
Yunohost is an amazing self-hosting platform with an incredible number of super valuable tools for small businesses ranging from website hosting to email hosting to email marketing. I’m really trying to force myself to move my business over to this platform to better protect company and customer data, as well as other financial savings. However, while going through the process…
Setting up Yunohost on Digital Ocean
This is the main tutorial I followed to install Yunohost (“YH” for rest of blog) on a Digital Ocean (“DO” for rest of blog) droplet, and this blog is basically my expansion notes to go with it to help myself and others who might need. Before you begin the rest of the YH setup work, make sure your owned domain…
How to Set Up a BIMI Logo with Inkscape
BIMI is some kind of logo plus security add on feature to email. In short, it uses a very specific kind of logo format for your company to a) show up visually in someone’s inbox when you send them an email (if they have that functionality) and b) increase email security / authenticity. So it seems good. I was surprised…
Authorize.net and their stupid invalid character password issue
Overcoming the ‘invalid character’ message in authorize.net…
How to install WordPress on Ubuntu Server
My notes for installing Wordpress on an ubuntu server…
How to Set up your Ubuntu Server with a new or updated SSH key
Overcoming the ssh ‘permission denied’ message (and fears)…