Category: Professional

I have Dysgraphia and here are my experiences with it

No, I didn’t say Dyslexia, I said Dysgraphia… I have Dysgraphia (I have more specific name for it, but I ain’t tellin’ some randomer on the internet, you’ll just have to ask me yourself!). This manifests mostly itself (physically? Is pain physical?) in the form of pain while handwriting, but the research on any mental …

Office 365: How to create a SharePoint site if your new Office 365 Group doesn't have one.

When creating a new Office 365 Group from the Exchange Admin Centre, its associated Sharepoint site wasn’t created.  This prevented me from sharing a OneDrive with a customer as the Office 365 Group OneDrives are actually based on sharepoint. To trigger the creation of a OneDrive/Sharepoint for an Office 365 Group, you must first go …

Bash: Dynamically named variables

Sometimes you want to run a series of commands that are slightly different, but for each command the arguments must also be slightly different. Say, for example, you have a script that runs multiple other commands and you want to give each one a temporary file to put its results in, then combine these at …

Linux Terminal: Removing/Changing newlines without using a text editor

In the interests of automation, I wanted to be able to convert the output of a command (In this case “ls”) into a format that can be read by another program. To do this I had to replace the newline characters in the command’s output with the pipe character (“|”). Now, I could do this with …