Turn a SharePoint list-triggered flow into a recurring flow
Many of us are familiar with setting up an Information Management Policy to have some action run on list items every n days. A better approach is to set up a scheduled or recurring Power Automate Flow on the list.
Update your Microsoft Teams status using Power Automate
There is a way to update your Teams status using a Power Automate Flow!
PendingIntent on S+ devices
One of my Android apps includes a widget that auto-updates both at a fixed interval (AlarmService) and when tapping on the widget. In the past this was accomplished with something like this (C# Xamarin): This has worked for years just fine, not realizing that S+ devices (or anything targeting version 31 or above) on Android requires a PendingIntentFlag value in that GetBroadcast call. A brief search returned how “easy” this is, just add in a flag for PendingIntentFlags.UpdateCurrent or PendingIntentFlags.Mutable…
Another reason smoking is bad
Here’s another reason why smoking is bad (as if we need more reasons). I was out walking my dog, and I always walk past a city bus stop. Each day I walk by and am amazed at the number of extinguished cigarette butts people stuff in the sign post (through the holes) as they put their smoke out before getting on the bus. Apparently, when you stuff a lot of flammable objects into a tightly contained area with exposure to…
Welcome!
Here’s the new home of The Nullable Type! Eventually I’ll move all of my old posts over here from Blogger, and all new posts will happen here.