A daily newsletter about automation and eliminating friction.
As many transitions into remote work, let's share resources that help productivity. 1Password – Stores passwords. Better than LastPass!AdBlock – Blocks annoying ads and tracking cookiesMicrosoft Editor – Spelling & Grammar Checker. Works even better if you have...
On holiday you want as little friction as possible. Yesterday I wrote about the unwritten traffic rules in Bali and that they remove a lot of friction when driving. But my advice is not to drive yourself in Bali or any other place in Asia: Always hire a car with a...
Last week I was on holiday in Bali, Indonesia. The traffic there looks chaotic and dangerous. There seems to be a lot of friction. But when you learn to drive like a local it becomes much easier. The unwritten traffic rules in Bali: ✅ Whatever you can see in front of...
5 ways to find data in Dataverse. How to find data in Datavers from simple to most powerful way: ✅ Dataverse Search In the middle on top there is a big Search bar, which is sometimes overlooked. It has great power to find what you ask for. Not yet enabled? Do it in...
💡Tip: Do you prefer automatic switching of Dark and Light mode 🌓? I work from home. My desk is positioned in front of a big wall of glass that has a beautiful view of Kuala Lumpur. In daytime it receives a lot of light, so dark mode doesn't cut it. At night I want to...
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice.— Arnold Bennett The sound of the message is itself a message that tells people a lot about you such as your:- Level of calm or of frustration- Degree of interest in the person you are...
Yesterday I posted about variables when sending mails using ActiveCampaign. Talking about variables like %RSS:ITEM:TITLE% inside an email I send using ActiveCampaign will of course trigger ActiveCampaign to replace these variables 🙄. Stupid of me! The email...
💡Tip: How to add an RSS Title as an Email subject in ActiveCampaign? I always write my daily ramblings first in my blog. This is the place where my content starts. Something about owning-your-own-content is important for me 😊. This is the trigger for ActiveCampaign to...
Power Pages! They tell me it's easy and is very secure, it's built in! I am not fully convinced when I hear this. Why? Simple said: "Easy and Security don't mix". Making something more secure will make it less easy to use. Data separation The thing is, Dataverse is...
Yesterday, the following quote hit a nerve with me, as a person who sometimes suffers from procrastination. This is the quote from Seth Godin (the guru in marketing): "The last minuteIf you do anything at the last minute that takes more than a minute, you’re not...
After 15 years of taking over other .NET developer their solutions, one thing that always flabbergasts me is... All the reasons why they have created dozens of projects in their solution. I even, once in a while, come across a 100+ projects in 1 solution in the wild...
Here are 10 new features in Power Automate that you may be missed. Power Automate is growing fast and these are the things that have caught my attention in the last couple of months: ✅ The new place of Power Automate is https://make.powerautomate.com. It doesn't...
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A daily newsletter on automation and eliminating friction