Archive - Brian’s Making Things

Outlook is the Best Productivity Tool Ever, Part 2

Following up on my previous post, where I described the framework for how I manage work using Outlook, this post focuses on the technology behind it.

Nov 9, 2024 • Brian Carroll

Mysterious Langchain Azure OpenAI Problems

I was banging my head on this problem for hours.

Nov 8, 2024 • Brian Carroll

September 2024

Outlook is the Best Productivity Tool Ever, Part 1

I wrote that headline to bother my brother, who despises Outlook.

Sep 30, 2024 • Brian Carroll

.bat File on Windows Taskbar

When building my Active Directory search tool, I wanted to launch it from the Windows taskbar.

Sep 28, 2024 • Brian Carroll

LLM-assisted Active Directory Search

I needed to check Active Directory (AD) to see who was part of a group.

Sep 27, 2024 • Brian Carroll

I was going to write a post but ...

Simon Willison beat me to it.

Sep 24, 2024 • Brian Carroll

Everything is Manipulatable

When working on the task scheduler issue I previously posted, I managed to lock myself out of my computer.

Sep 23, 2024 • Brian Carroll

Windows Task Scheduler Woes

My favorite cartoonist has a website where he displays daily selections from his archive.

Sep 20, 2024 • Brian Carroll

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