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...

  The very large "10 books in 1" tome, "Building Websites (all in one) for Dummies", is something I often peruse late at night. The ways of the Old Web give me comfort. But something caught my eye. 💡 "Submit a sitemap to Google and Bing. Yahoo uses the same search options as Bing, so no need for that." Now, this book is not new (There's a section on how you need to put in some XSS code to be able to take PayPal payments on your Webpress site - Is that still a thing?). So, I thought the idea of sitemaps was long gone. However - sitemaps are still in use today! What is a Sitemap? It's an XML file optimized for search engines to find your website, listing every page on your website. "Spiders" crawl pages to index for search engines. Why Bing? I use Bing for my regular searching on the web. I also submitted my sitemap to Google, as my blog is hosted on their platform and my domain is purchased through them. (I'm not sure it work...