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Systems don’t always work. What you need are humans, faith in each other, and a place to put notes.
I recently begen volunteering at a local organization that acts as a permanent mailing address for thousands of people - a critical service that allows people to receive important documents for identification, employment, benefits, and more. How do you manage hundreds of incoming letters/packages a day for thousands of mailboxes? Surely each letter gets scanned and indexed in a database for easy retrieval, and peple can scan their IDs to check for new mail.
Planning an Escape I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve hit a dead end in my career.
My current job is the thankless task of maintaining my previous boss’s pet projets. I’m having a horrible time. I can’t move up the chain because I’m not in a real position - just a weird attachment to the department where I don’t belong. My formal education is in Material Science, where all the jobs are in rural/suburban areas, but I can’t live in those places.
This is my first time using a terminal, “modal” text editor. I loved tmux so much I decided to try something else modal and in the terminal to edit server configs etc.
I looked into Vim, NeoVim, Emacs (which originally caught my eye with Org-Mode) but they all proved to be too fiddly to get working quickly, and VSCode is fine for my use cases. This is all true of Helix too, but it’s the new kid on the block and I decided to give it a try.
With this theme, anyway.
Mostly for personal reference since it varies by theme.
To make and view a draft post:
$ cd hugo $ hugo new content posts/how-to-make-a-hugo-post.md $ nano content/posts/how-to-make-a-hugo-post.md $ hugo --buildDrafts The post file context is just normal markdown. If you can write a github README you can write a post.
To make it a non-draft post, set draft: false in the header.
You can change the title in the header as well.
Specifically the Microsoft™ Power Platform™
Power automate is a useful tool. It lets you connect almost anything in the Microsoft ecosystem (and even outside the Microsoft ecosystem if you pay for premium). Unfortunately it is not a good tool.
If Janice from Accounting wants to have an email appear when there’s a new SharePoint item with their name on it, sure. That’s possible. And fairly simple. Power Automate is quite good at this.