Today I Learned

Journal

2/7/25

A group called SPARTA ensures transgender individuals have the right to serve in the US Military.

1/31/25

When you publish Obsidian notes, they have to go through a workflow. Obsidian makes Markdown (.md) files. You can run them through a pipeline that deploys via GitHub to a static site generator, which converts the Markdown files to HTML, then publishes them to the web.

1/22/25

Sweaters were originally worn by rowers and designed to make you sweat. Similarly, sweatshirts were originally designed as athletic wear to absorb sweat.

Sweaters transitioned into casual wear in the mid-1900s. Before that, they were worn by fishermen and sportsmen, then later adopted by golfers.

1/8/25

TIL that federal holidays are only required PTO for federal institutions and that private employers are not required to provide those days off. I knew SOME private employers were not required, but I didn’t know it was so strict in the types.

TIL you can add your personal M365 calendar to a SharePoint sites page using the M365 calendar web part. I think it probably pulls for the user, so it's more like a personal dashboard/homepage helper?

OR you can add a Teams/group calendar, for example: The calendar associated with the department Teams library and chat. There isn't a "SharePoint site" calendar because this SharePoint site isn't a Teams site.

There is no way to show the events from the "Events" feature on SharePoint in a calendar view. You get the usual content views (filmstrip, grid). I have always known there was no way to do the events as a calendar but I thought maybe they updated it. And they did! To let you show your personal M365 calendar.