Tuesday, July 1, 2025

I am not always smart

Witness me! I am an example of what not to do. 

Yesterday I was the pretty one! Like, so so pretty!

I spent several hours yesterday trying to figure out why I was making changes to files, and if I ran the file on its own it worked, but when I ran the bat file, it ignored all my changes. 

A coworker watched me make changes, and also couldn't understand why it was doing what it was doing. 

Today, I am less pretty. I discovered I was editing the files in the src folder, but the bat file runs the files in the main folder. 

Why there are duplicate files in this program I don't have an answer for. I didn't write it... But it is based on something I did write. So, it is complex.

We can't do that here

I remember years ago looking over a book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, and thinking how this would be so useful at work. Half of m...