• Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    I used to work at a place where one of their test machines generated a cert in Microsoft Word with test results. They were having their lab technicians manually type in something like eight fields of information to flesh put the cert. I managed to hack together a Word VBA plus Python script to interface with the OpenOffice database I had set up so the techs only had to type in one field, and the script filled in the rest.

    It was kind of a monstrosity under the hood, but it worked pretty slickly, and given the available tools I was glad the option existed.