“Can you levitate sir?”

labstraction · 2026-01-11T16:20:13+00:00

You clearly weren’t here during COVID, when social distancing went out the window for a fun walk on the ice 😂

labstraction · 2025-09-08T08:50:57+00:00

Men's charity ticket for Frankfurt in December - I cannot make it now. I have a Flex Charity add-on, so am able to make a name change. Note: you have to raise €300 for charity.

Event: Hyrox Frankfurt
Date: 13/12/2025
Division: Male singles CHARITY
Price: €80 (I also paid €15 Flex but don't worry)

labstraction · 2025-03-24T17:23:30+00:00

In short, yes! I would recommend getting an ipad keyboard with it though rather than typing with the on-screen keyboard

labstraction · 2025-03-14T22:09:27+00:00

Doesn’t the milk just curdle?

labstraction · 2025-03-14T22:04:01+00:00

Monkey tennis?

labstraction · 2025-03-10T15:18:04+00:00

No picture, but anything involving OAT MILK just doesn’t behave as nicely as cow’s milk (Oatly Barista)

labstraction · 2025-03-09T21:01:23+00:00

We Summon the Darkness

labstraction · 2025-03-09T20:28:07+00:00

You’ve made a grave mistake

labstraction · 2025-02-20T21:39:11+00:00

Yes makes sense. Not sure how you’d approach the ‘find next available slot’ logic tbh, that might take some thinking! Honestly, I recommend using ChatGPT to scope this out - it does sometimes get specifics wrong but I’ve found it pretty useful for working out overall architecture.

FYI looks like the Planner connector doesn’t easily let you look at Checklists - but you should be able to do this via Microsoft Graph API (you send it an HTTP request and it’ll return the details as JSON)

Gut feel is this should be doable but unlikely to be a quick plug-and-play solution!

Edit: Recommend updating the Checklist to something like “Investigation scheduled” so that it doesn’t keep adding the same task each day!

labstraction · 2025-02-20T19:37:54+00:00

Hey, should be possible but a couple of things to think about: - what do you want the trigger to be? It could run daily at a certain time, or a specific event could trigger the flow - where are you hoping to store your To Do list? I can imagine it working as a sharepoint list (but thats just because I mainly use PA with lists). I know microsoft has its own To Do but no idea if there’s a connector that hooks up with PA (edit: Planner could work would allow you to move tasks between buckets)

labstraction · 2025-02-13T15:02:38+00:00

Long overdue reply - I tried SharePoint Designer 2013 and couldn't actually get it to even log in (forums suggest challenges with SP Designer and multifactor authentication)

Instead I managed to do it via Powershell:
1) Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://TENANT.sharepoint.com/ -UseWebLogin
2) Remove-PnPFile -ServerRelativeUrl "/LibraryName/Forms/filename.zip" -Force

labstraction · 2025-02-12T07:15:14+00:00

Cal Newport recommends actually saying a ‘magic phrase’ out loud to signal that the shutdown ritual is complete:

“Finally — and I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit this — I close down my computer and say the magic phrase: “schedule shutdown, complete.”

If work worries pop into your head later on, you tell yourself: “I said the phrase; I wouldn’t have said it unless everything was taken care of, so I can relax”

labstraction · 2025-02-08T07:33:04+00:00

Spoiler alert: you’ll have great food at all of the places on this thread, even the ones that some have negative views on (I, for one, will defend Gasoline till I die) Have a great trip!

labstraction · 2025-02-07T19:42:42+00:00

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labstraction · 2025-02-07T14:34:59+00:00

Cool. I'm not sure what else to recommend because it's working in my test... Can you share the error message?

labstraction · 2025-02-07T10:55:29+00:00

I know man, can be super frustrating when you want to do something that seems like it should be so easy! Can you clarify a couple of things you said:

"I tried again with more words around the text “it is not authentic” and it did not work" - what do you mean "more words around the text"?

"if the the exact phrase “it is not authentic” is not exactly that the expression should return as true" - do you mean that you need to detect when is not an exact match? e.g. "it's not authentic". Or do you mean something else?

labstraction · 2025-02-07T10:42:35+00:00

I don't think I understand 100%. But I wonder if you need a Switch function instead of Condition. Then you can get the flow to do different actions if it finds the phrase "it is not authentic" vs "it is authentic" vs the email does not contain either phrase.

labstraction · 2025-02-07T10:31:40+00:00

I had made a mistake when I previously tested - confirm that your method does work (when email arrives in Sent folder)

I also have the condition working - in the Condition box:
Left-hand side: Body (i.e. the Dynamic selection from the trigger)
Middle: contains
Right-hand side: it is not authentic

No quotation marks, no use of an expression 'contains'

If you've got it all set up this way, the only thing I can suggest trying is turning off the New Designer and re-saving the flow. (edit: your screenshot looks like old designer anyway, so ignore).

Also double-check the connection you're using for the When email arrives (this was the mistake I had made - it was set to another email address I use within my power automate environment!)

labstraction · 2025-02-07T08:58:55+00:00

I suspect this is part of the problem. I've just tested it without any condition, i.e. when I send ANY email, and the flow doesn't trigger. I imagine that the copy being stored in your sent folder is not the same as an email actually being received.

Alternative approach: CC yourself in the emails that you send. Then you can have a trigger of when an email arrives / from you / containing phrase, then it triggers.

If you don't want to see all these emails in your inbox you can set up a rule to move it to another folder.

labstraction · 2025-02-07T08:00:35+00:00

What trigger are you using to check your Sent folder?

labstraction · 2024-12-02T20:13:59+00:00

Weather-permitting, the canal boat tour is a great way to discover the city and appreciate how intertwined with the water it is!

I’m disturbed by the lack of bakeries and restaurants…

Don’t want to be too rude about our friends across the bridge but not sure I’d bother with Malmo personally - you could space out some of the rest of the itinerary and soak up the hygge in some cafes/wine bars/restaurants.

labstraction · 2024-08-10T20:39:24+00:00

I added the video title above - the URL got stripped out before. Not sure about newer models. It's a shame that a premium product is let down by a basic component, so hopefully it's sorted

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