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Sometimes good advice is circulated widely. Many times bad advice catches on and we assume it is good advice because it's been repeated so often. Let's address a few of those in our business communication: 1. I Have to Use "Professional Words" to Sound
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I'm really tired of opening up a script to run some monthly reports, only to find that Chrome has updated again, which means my chromedriver breaks my script. Let's automate this! đź’ˇThis article and script has been updated on May 22, 2024 to fix the breaking
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It's time to start using python to improve your work. This first project will be simple enough for you to pick up if you have no experience with python, and it should be useful if you already know python. We're combining the productivity strategy of a
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Whether I'm trying to add random letters to a filename or URL to make sure it's unique, this little snippet is nice and fast. >>> import string, random >>> random.choices(string.ascii_letters, k=5) ['e', 'I'
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There's only so much time in a day, so much energy you have to expend at work, so much influence you will have on coworkers. We often hear Corporate say idiotic things like, "Do more with less," and we can be tempted to think along the
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Perhaps the automation strategy that is easiest to get started with is templates. This is not about making things look "pretty" in your docs or slideshows. Templates are pre-created assets that speed up your production and reduce the workload a project or task requires. Whenever you notice that
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Format HTML Bullets All at Once | Regex of the Day #shortsBefore you format each HTML bullet list line by line, try this awesome find/replace regex trick. Add all of your opening and closing “li” tags in seconds.___...YouTube Writers frequently hand over a document that needs to be formatted
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Here's a great little code snippet that can teach you a couple of concepts in python: filename = "test.html" extension = filename.split('.')[-1] The breakdown We've started with a filename. This can be anything, even a filename with multiple periods in it.
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A continuation of Too Many Projects at Work. While changing the color scheme for each project is a great way to go, I've found this to be even easier for me to both recognize which project I'm on, and switch between projects with less friction. I
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I went to update Ghost, but got this error: I tried running the following so that I could see my memory usage: df -h Which gave me something like this (data has all been modified, this is just an illustration) ...but I couldn't find anything that would suggest
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Every marketer or team-lead needs one of these handy. You've got a list of names for a contest or a drawing and you need to choose one person at random. However, to save on trees, we're keeping this all digital. Here's how you can
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This regex of the day is great for helping you format content into HTML. Say we need to put paragraph tags around the text that doesn't already have an HTML tag. The pattern we want is whenever we start the line without a less-than bracket. We'll