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Me: Ugh. I always forget to change my Slack status before leaving my computer. I wish it would just update when I locked my computer. And maybe cleared the status/set me back to active when I unlocked my computer.
*realization that I’m a programmer now*

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A week later:
... it throws a nilError exception on every running of the Automator action to the stderr file it’s configured with, but it does what I programmed it to do. What? Why? What have I done?

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  • 0
    Time to run it through the debugger ;-)
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    Your first thought after “I could make it do that” should always be “but why hasn’t anyone made it that yet”
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    @jeeper Oh, believe me, it was. It was just also then followed up with “... but people block themselves with that reasoning all the time, though”.
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    @AmyShackles sometimes, improbable as it may seem given the larger scheme of things, you really are the first one to come up with something
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