PowerShell

It’s surprisingly easy to build your own custom dashboard with TRMNL, webhooks, and a bit of PowerShell. I used it to send dynamic data (like quotes and images) to an old device—no polling needed, just a simple POST and some fun templating.

PowerShell is global, but not everyone works in English. Let’s look at how localization works, how you can add it to your modules, and how to make it easy for your community to contribute translations

In this post I’ll be walking through an example of a (silly) request you might see at work and show you how you can leverage AST’s to update your codebase.

Learn how using a simple “proxy” module, will allow you to use custom PSScriptAnalyzer rules in all your repositories!

Alleviating my ADHD headaches with Obsidian. Periodic Notes and Templater extensions save the day by reminding me of the next step towards my larger goals.

A quick overview on how I use Starship to customize my prompt.

Manage PowerShell at enterprise scale with Meta’s Chef cookbook. Learn system profile management, module deployment, telemetry control, and enterprise configuration automation.

In this third post of the series I go over my PowerShell profile.

In this second post of the series I go over my WezTerm config an explain each of my settings and some lessons learned.

Part one of brief walk through on how terminals, shells, and prompts interact. In later posts I will go over my particular settings, but this lays the foundation.

I walk through my most painful mistake of 2022. Using Remove-Item in a Pipeline can be efficient, but it can also be a disaster.

Learn how to force reinstall Chocolatey packages using PowerShell and packages.config. Complete walkthrough with XML generation script for handling partially removed packages.

Learn why Stucco is such a powerfull module template. Includes a walk through from creating a module to publishing to the PowerShell Gallery!

Add professional icons to your PowerShell modules. Complete guide to finding Creative Commons images, uploading to GitHub, and configuring module metadata with IconUri.

Github repo with a PowerShell script to sync speakers to a Twitter list and to mastadon.

Gilbert’s first podcast appearance on the PowerShell Podcast. Listen to insights on PowerShell community, development practices, and speaker experiences with hosts Andrew and Jordan.

Contributed some bug fixes.

I created the Plaster publishing workflow.

A PowerShell module companion for the Beneath The Canals game.

Part 2 of turning a cheap LED light and making it smart. We use MQTT, HomeAssistant, and PowerShell!

A PowerShell module to create dice and roll them from PowerShell!

Create PC’s, NPC’s, and monsters in PowerShell!

Synchronize Unix group members with Active Directory groups using PowerShell. Complete code example to manage Unix attributes, automate user provisioning, and maintain audit compliance.

A simple script to keep XenApp servers in reboot workergroups.

Get a quick count of Citrix workergrop app/server counts.