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Remove autosuggested URLs from Chrome

Created: 2017.06.15

How to erase specific autosuggested URLs from Chrome, Firefox, and IE

1. Enter Search Term into Address field
2. Use the down arrow to select the incorrect suggestion
3. Press SHIFT + DELETE to remove it

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Multi-currency accounting

Created: 2017.06.15

As a remote worker, I spend in NZD, but most of my jobs are charged and paid in USD.

That's a problem, because:

• My native currency is NZD
• I have subscriptions which are in NZD and USD

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CRMs

Created: 2017.06.03

I don't have a ton of work on at the moment, but for a long time I have been looking for the holy grail of time management. Now I have income to consider in that equation too..

Needs/wants

• store info about remote projects pitched for
• store info about regular clients

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Automate deployments from a Bitbucket repository to Sitehost using Git FTP

Created 2017.05.30

https://www.savjee.be/2016/06/Deploying-website-to-ftp-or-amazon-s3-with-BitBucket-Pipelines/

First up, create the Environment variables in your Bitbucket account:

• FTP_USERNAME_DEV: As generated by Sitehost
• FTP_PASSWORD_DEV: As generated by Sitehost

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Self-hosting web video - compression

Created: 2017.06.14

A client's website uses the Bigvideo background-video plugin. The client's video is hosted on YouTube, but Bigvideo doesn't support YouTube streaming.

This means that the video will need to be self-hosted.

Popular hosts like YouTube apply their own compression settings. YouTube tutorials don't spend much time on compression, only on getting files into the format that YouTube expects. As we are self-hosting, we need to get the compression settings right.

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Parsing nested JSON

Created: 2017.06.14

• how to show json object key and value using handlebar template?

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Favicons

Created: 2017.05.28

A modern favicon workflow, from a recent project.

1. Locate a vector icon in SVG format, eg from FlatIcon
2. Edit icon using SVG-edit
3. Generate out all the variations (with previews) using Favicon Generator. For real.

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Screen recording

Created: 2017.06.12

An important part of working remote gigs is being able to communicate technical issues in a non-technical way.

This is necessary because:

• it is not easy to meet the client in person, to talk them through an issue
• the client is often not a native English speaker

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Multisite performance issues

Created: 2017.06.12

Bringing several sites under a multisite umbrella made maintenance easier, but had the annoying side effect that everything ran really slowly.

I found the following settings sped things up in MAMP Pro:

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Setting up a staging site on Sitehost shared hosting

Created: 2017.05.30

A simple process, but one which often fails. Here are the definitive steps.

Steps

1. Select Account: dotherightthing.co.nz
2. Websites > Add Website: