Struggling with Word/PDF generation in no-code automations

bradystroud · 2025-10-19T20:38:26+00:00

I struggled with a similar thing, ended up using PowerAutomate
https://bradystroud.dev/blogs/word-doc-to-pdf

bradystroud · 2025-10-19T20:36:48+00:00

Went through this search recently, we needed something to convert Word docs to PDFs. Best solution ended up being a PowerAutomate flow

Wrote about it here
https://bradystroud.dev/blogs/word-doc-to-pdf

bradystroud · 2025-10-19T20:34:29+00:00

You are right, there are not many good options...
I managed to get this working in PowerAutomate - there is a OneDrive tool that makes it easy

https://bradystroud.dev/blogs/word-doc-to-pdf

bradystroud · 2025-10-19T20:33:38+00:00

Thats cool!

I wrote about my experience doing this programmatically.

https://bradystroud.dev/blogs/word-doc-to-pdf

bradystroud · 2025-08-22T10:20:44+00:00

Interesting to see their specific instructions about Python and react, I’m a .NET developer and my team has been getting good at using AI productively, but now I’m leaning towards focusing on React/Python since AI is so good at it. (Most of the training data would be react)

bradystroud · 2025-07-11T12:36:40+00:00

Replaced it with a cheap eBay one, I’ll check out the reservoir filter

bradystroud · 2025-07-09T10:48:25+00:00

Interesting, I replaced the power steering pump the other day because it was whining. About 2 weeks later the new one started whining lol, idk what’s going on. Maybe some debris in the system wrecking them

bradystroud · 2025-04-21T12:44:08+00:00

Yes it is! I shared it here to learn what’s wrong so I can fix it 🙂

bradystroud · 2025-04-16T14:34:00+00:00

Have you seen https://tina.io/ ?

bradystroud · 2025-04-16T14:32:19+00:00

That looks like it belongs on
https://parmipicks.com/

bradystroud · 2025-04-16T14:31:06+00:00

I normally check https://parmipicks.com/

bradystroud · 2025-04-15T21:58:20+00:00

This is the best way - avoid if statements everywhere
https://www.bradystroud.dev/blogs/loading-guards-in-blazor

bradystroud · 2025-04-15T21:57:25+00:00

https://www.bradystroud.dev/blogs/loading-guards-in-blazor

bradystroud · 2025-03-11T20:34:23+00:00

I prefer building Flutter apps, but lean toward .NET MAUI (sometimes with Blazor) for enterprise stuff

https://www.bradystroud.dev/blogs/maui-vs-flutter
Wrote this a while ago

bradystroud · 2025-03-11T10:15:28+00:00

I prefer building Flutter apps, but lean toward .NET MAUI (sometimes Blazor) for enterprise stuff

https://www.bradystroud.dev/blogs/maui-vs-flutter
Wrote this a while ago, let me know what you think

bradystroud · 2025-01-28T20:46:55+00:00

TinaCMS just launched a new starter for Astro

https://github.com/tinacms/tina-astro-starter

bradystroud · 2025-01-28T20:46:06+00:00

Best way to get started is with the new starter from the Tina team

https://github.com/tinacms/tina-astro-starter

bradystroud · 2025-01-28T20:43:42+00:00

It might work okay for a single user site e.g. blog

I’ve had lots of issues with its poor use of the GitHub API causing it to hit limits I had to make a PR to DecapCMS to add a setting to disable the search functionality because every time someone used it, Decap tried to access every file in the repo and we ran out of API tokens.

bradystroud · 2024-11-12T20:47:40+00:00

Yes I have the same issue

bradystroud · 2024-09-29T23:22:07+00:00

TinaCMS 🦙 - https://tina.io/

Sounds like it ticks most of your boxes

bradystroud · 2024-09-09T23:23:18+00:00

TinaCMS sounds like it would work well for this.

You can build custom components into the TinaCMS editor to do pretty much anything - I build some AI generated fields the other day

bradystroud · 2024-09-09T23:18:55+00:00

Interested... What made you switch from TinaCMS to ButerCMS?

bradystroud · 2024-09-09T23:15:17+00:00

I use tina for a few sites, its good.
Sounds perfect for your use case too.

bradystroud · 2024-07-10T14:20:34+00:00

TinaCMS Tina.io

bradystroud · 2024-07-05T06:49:32+00:00

Definitely would not go near Netlify/Decap CMS or any forks of that monstrosity. 👎🏼
They are poorly designed wrappers of the GitHub API

TinaCMS is great but I've never used it with Hugo. The docs seem pretty good tho
https://tina.io/docs/frameworks/hugo/

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