Microsoft Teams allows you to message a channel by sending an email to a certain address. This is great unless you are at a corporation that appends some boilerplate to all outgoing emails. Then it is frustrating and sad.
Continue reading ↦My summer job always ends up being a grab bag of different assignments, ranging from IT tasks such as installing a new network switch or deracking an old server to more developer tasks such as writing a document management program. Most recently, however, I was tasked with updating some of their legacy programs that run on their IBM AS400. The more impactful change I was instructed to make was to reverse the sort order on a list of jobs for a given company - since 1991 they were listed in ascending order, meaning users had to scroll to get to the newest jobs.
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