RUN TCP/IP | Morgan Lucas is Tech Blogging

   According to Microsoft ; Power Automate allows you to automate web and desktop applications on your Windows desktop by mimicking the user interface actions like clicks, and keyboard input. You can also combine these actions with predefined support for applications like Excel to help automate repetitive tasks. Not sure if that fits my goal below, but  let's try something simple on Windows 11: Appending a text file with new input. I:  Use a message box to prompt for a name. The name is saved and 'Hello, %name% is saved to a text file.   The flow:      I had made a variable called 'name' to write to. The textbox made its own variable ('UserInput'), so I told step two (Write text to file) to simply output 'Hello %UserInput%  It did save to a text file -- I wish it would open said file automatically upon saving, but a text box is the next best thing. The file updates in real time!   Let's try another: Put a saved file in a particular p...

I earned my AWS Solutions Architect Certification in Feb 2026 (🎊) but Like Smash Mouth said, "So much to do...so much to see."  I've used Lambdas that, when an object was uploaded to a bucket, sent a notification to Eventbridge, and then sent me a text and email via SNS. Now, thanks to the free project on Adrian Cantrill's GitHub , I'm going to make a small image processing eventflow. (Emoji use is for fun; Everything here written by a human being.)  What's Happening: Images uploaded to an S3 bucket are made into 5 thumbnail variations thanks to the power of Lambdas and inserted into an output bucket.   Business Use case; If you want to get quick thumbnails.  Maybe this can be scaled out to do file conversion, like .txt to .pdf.  Materials: 2 S3 buckets - one for input, one for processed output. Lambda An image!  Step 1: Bucket Creation  🪣 I made one bucket (runtcpip-source, for images to go in) and copied the settings from it to make the second...

 Hugo is both a delightful movie from 2011 and a flexible, fast, open source static website builder. I'm no stranger to static websites, so I'm giving it a try!    -> You will need git installed.    Steps. 1. Install Powershell 2. Use Hugo 3. Using a Domain 4.Publishing a Hugo Site (GitHub Pages)     Installing Powershell Powershell is not the same as Windows Powershell. I'm using WinGet , the Windows Package Manager. It's a tool that does everything you do in a GUI for Windows Clients, but in the command line.  WinGet also installs Hugo.   Using Hugo All of this work is in Powershell.  `hugo new site quickstart`  The command makes a new folder called quickstart while populating it with the Hugo things we need.  `git init`  Initializes git.   ` git submodule add https://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke ` It clones the repo into the quickstart directory.  `echo "theme = 'anank...