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Posted this to the Power Platform Community forum:

Lost the best part of an hour testing and trying to fix a Child Flow returning true to the parent via “Respond to an App or a flow”. I’m trying to test that output with a Condition and it would not work. I tried setting the output on “Respond to…” to text and yes/no. Tried with single quotes, without quotes, using Expression to pass boolean TRUE on BOTH sides (in the output and the Condition value).

I could see from looking at the results of the Flow it looked like it was returning a String but the Condition step gives no debugging output – you can’t see what it is comparing, never mind the Type!

In the end, I figured some magic auto-typing was happening somewhere and simply changed the output from the child to Text with the value yes (no quotes) and set the value of the Condition in the parent Flow to the same.

Worked immediately.

Wonder if I was actually doing it wrong?

I love everything about omg.lol except the name, which I am not sure would even appeal to my 11 y/o daughter.

Get the best internet address that you’ve ever had

Like, circa 2004, or whatever.

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International Data Protection Authorities issue joint statement on privacy risks of AI-generated imagery https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2026/02/international-data-protection-authorities-issue-joint-statement-on-privacy-risks-of-ai-generated-imagery/

Wrote to my MP about this, oh, let’s see… 2.5 years ago!

I do understand that it’s the Conservative way to “let the market decide”; to see how much money can be made, and what damage done, before regulation. This is going to happen far too quickly for that. It’s already too late, damage will be done, but better late than never.

Microsoft Copilot “AI” just suggested I use the Clamp() function in Microsoft Power Fx. Sadly, it doesn’t exist, which Copilot was happy to confirm and yet made no mention of the mistake. I assume this is by design. Presumably admitting fault is the same as admitting liability.

Liked Every Built-In Vim Color Scheme (with screenshots) by JustinJustin (justinjoyce.dev)

I tried searching for a nice listing of all the built-in Vim :colorscheme (or :colo for short) options and I couldn’t find one, so here it is. This post is every :colo option that comes with Vim and a screenshot of what it looks like with some nonsense python code.

This is very cool. I really appreciate it when people take the time to do this sort of grunt work and share it.

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I’ve been tinkering with a Canvas-based Power App for over a year and have just now realised that I wish I kept a changelog. I’ve added loads of features and fixed loads of tricky little bugs and I wish I could read it all in one place. Also, I’m getting close to sharing it with the world, and so a changelog seems desirable.

Why did I not keep a change log? Well, Canvas-based Power Apps don’t readily lend themselves to “userspace” version control. You don’t have a “local” copy of the app/code. I am pretty sure you can switch on some background git repo if you have the enterprise licensing, but we do not. And while you can extract the Power Fx code for each screen, it’s not something you’d want to do often.

However, all is not completely lost! I don’t have any training in Agile software development but I do understand the fundamentals of Minimum Viable Product. And, because the app itself is an Outlook-integrated Task timer/tracker, I started using it straight away to track the work I was doing on the app. So, I do have dates for when I did what, which I can cross-reference against the version history provided in Power Apps Studio.

I might be able to cobble something together but I wish I’d just kept one from the start! With that said, I should go and start one now…

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Management asks us to write long manuals for the board on using our company's database software. I have been padding it out with chapters from a printed 1990s manual for WordPerfect 4.0. Nobody has even noticed it.

I’ve done short guides, long guides, short videos, long videos. People never read/watch them. It’s almost like an aversion…

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Lawyer here: I add Idiot Tax of £200 on to my fees on matter where someone has made an offer on a house "£123,767" instead of a simple round number. It's not clever, it just marks you out as a twat.

Glad that’s not a thing on eBay! My last second bids always end in the same odd number of pence in an effort to beat other people doing similar.

Anyone else feel like the whole / “Deep State” conspiracy thing is actually broadly playing out as theorised? It’s just implicating “the wrong people”, as far as the right is concerned…