Want to publish your site on GitHub Pages from a private repository, but don’t want to pay for a GitHub Pro subscription? You can set it up so the site lives in a public repository and deploys automatically on every push, while the source code stays private. Here’s how I did it — a handy cheat sheet, essentially.

Netlify is a great tool for hosting static sites. When a site is very large, it takes a while to build, and it’s not very convenient to keep an eye on the deploy status. Also, when multiple people work on a site, it’s useful to know when someone has triggered a deploy. You can set up Telegram notifications for this, using a Telegram bot and webhooks.

Somehow historically it happened that the address book in the organization was kept in an Excel file lying on the share. But there is a wonderful Active Directory in which all the data is there! I saved the employee from the heavy burden of bringing everyone into the file and made a knee-pad script in a couple of minutes. Well, the template, in another couple of tens of minutes bungled. We just run the script and we have html, which can be put anywhere, and politicians add it to the bookmarks of all employees.