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I love that the username portion of the fake people in this anti-phishing email I just got are "LMAO" and "ROFL"

Thank you. I've been saying the same thing, just not as loudly lol... Filling your repo with markdown files with detailed instructions for all the things you want your coding agent to do well is exactly the kind of thing we should have been doing to ensure human developers could code well all along

I just rediscovered a little #powershell module I wrote a few years ago. I originally wrote it for reading/writing from interactive processes like netsh but it comes in handy for kicking off installers and streaming their stdout too.

A recruitment ad for CBP / Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up in my LinkedIn feed this evening. So I did my duty and reported the dangerous extremist organization. Promoting such hateful and violent extremists is against their ToS after all. #abolishice

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again in professional contexts: "Actually yeah, there's a command in the module for that! Here's the docs page with examples, let me know if you have any questions!"

Ever struggled with DllNotFoundException errors in #powershell? I had this problem in a #csharp module and solved it with a p/invoke call to SetDllDirectory. Saw a post in /r/PowerShell where the native assemblies used by Mime couldn't be loaded and wrote this. Works in PowerShell 5.1 and 7+.

Anyone else's "WiFi down" this morning? My daughter was interrogating me the moment I woke up this morning. I have three sync'd piholes and they all use cloudflared to proxy DNS requests for DoH. Turns out I missed the memo about the impending removal of the proxy-dns command last year.

I'm gonna need every Technology Connections video from now on to include a call to #abolishice until it happens 🤘

THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!

@allwayshype.com will be on stage for #PSConfEU 2026 in #Wiesbaden (1-4 June)! 🎙️ From ConfigMgr to Manager of Configs 🎙️ IntuneStack - a CI/CD PowerShell workflow for managing Intune policy 🎟️ Tickets: psconf.eu #automation #IT #PowerShell #Conference #Europe #Germany

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Am I the only one who looks at #llm "Agent Skills" and wonders why "documentation" needed a new name?

Build tools are hard to learn, but psake's patterns work across .NET, Node, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines. Learn once, use everywhere. We just released an Agent Skill to help you level up faster - works in Claude and Copilot. psake.dev/blog/intro... #psake #powershell #build

The "ValueFromRemainingArguments" feature in #powershell can be super handy! It stops errors when a user splats a hashtable with keys that don't match existing parameters, but it can also be used as a shorthand way to allow "dynamic parameters" without the potential downsides of dynamic parameters.

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I channeled my anger, frustration, and sadness about the state murders of #reneegood and #alexpretti this weekend and started working on Project Witness. There are so many videos recorded by protestors, legal observers, released bodycam footage. But it's difficult to get them all together.

I wanted a #powershell script that could observe the 🐁 mouse position for an idle/busy tool to remind my daughter to get up and move when she's been 🎮 gaming for hours gist.github.com/joshooaj/a35...

I've been keeping a secret..... CHOCOLATEY FEST IS COMING BACK!!!!! This is running alongside @powershellsummit.org as a dedicated track. One ticket. Two events. More details soon, including a CFP. Tickets @ powershellsummit.org

Thanks to @joshooaj.com for the inspiration, I wrote a blog post about @chocolatey.org's refreshenv command; a super-helpful utility to refresh your PATH post package operation. Hope you find it useful! steviecoaster.dev/blog/refresh... #Chocolatey #PowerShell

I wrote a #powershell function to rebuild the PATH env var because I was annoyed after installing a new CLI tool that it wasn't immediately available. This cross-platform function will update PATH with the machine/user/process-scoped vars. And now this is where you tell me there's a better way 😅

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

I added a silly ai-generated country song about getting lyrics wrong as a demo song for the ai-generated lyric-syncing app I made yesterday.

Writing and correcting synced lyrics was a pain so I built a thing using a coding agent. Everything runs in the browser and you can listen to your song while you adjust timestamps of individual lines of lyrics with the up/down arrow keys. syncsong.net

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Shipped audio/video transcription with generation of subtitles or lyric LRC files. It's definitely a "your mileage may vary" situation in terms of transcription quality, especially with music, but if the average person can understand the lyrics they'll probably turn out okay. muxminus.com

🎵 lot of bonk guns 🎵 - Nirvana (apparently) LOL @ the idea of extracting lyrics using whisper 🤣 Experimenting with lyric extraction using demucs to isolate the vocals and pass them through whisper. It's terrible, but when I listen to the vocals I totally see why an STT model would "hear" this 🙃

My #PowerShell Universal cookbook app got an upgrade today. Categories display as chips only if RecipeCount > 0! Also added ability to delete a recipe from its edit modal. Navigation now collapses as well, making use on mobile a much nicer UX. Repo: github.com/steviecoaste...

Okay this has been a lot of fun. I spent the day using vscode with the Claude Opus model to rebuild the Mux Minus site using Django. The audio players now render the waveforms, and everything looks a lot better.

Check out my latest side quest (aka distraction), 🎚️ Mux Minus! Split a music file into multiple tracks or stems. Great for making a vocal-free track for karaoke. A while back I was messing with the python-based Facebook Research "demucs" project and I decided to write a web application around it.

They don’t make a commercial here management software that’s simple enough for my dad to use. Thankfully, I fake it as a developer and know what #PowerShell Universal is, so I wrote him one. Naturally, it’s open source. (But not yet on the gallery. ) Explore what it can do at:

I think my house is trying to tell me something. It's a modular home and I suspect we'll need to have someone out to shim some of the piers due to settling or something.

New #powershell module for anyone running a #frigatenvr server. There's not much to it yet but you can login, add/remove/modify users, get a filtered list of events, and for API features not implemented yet, you can use Invoke-FrigateApi. www.joshooaj.com/joshooaj.fri...

I'm new to #frigatenvr - is there already a popular CLI for it? I started on an experimental #powershell module this evening. I'm a bit disappointed that the API relies on cookies for authentication, and that there's no first-party openapi spec as far as I can see. Still, very easy to get started.

⭐ New YouTube Video ⭐ You wrote your first Terraform file, but what are all these other files? 🤔 This video breaks down provider versioning, lock files, and the Terraform state file so you understand how Terraform tracks your infrastructure and keeps deployments consistent.

I worked on this a little more today. Made it so the landing page lists all music being played (from a local Navidrome server in my case) and provides a "Copy URL" button for a ready-to-use URL to drop into OBS as a Browser source. nowplaying.madeye.dev

Last night I used a little PowerShell with HTML and JavaScript to make a "now playing" widget for my obs studio setup. I used the pode module to deliver a simple web page and two API endpoints. One to get the current track data and one to get the album art.

I'm on vacation until January 5th. I hope I still remember my login next year.

Alright, who's been huffing helium from my NAS drives?

I expected to get roasted by chat… Not by GitHub Copilot. 😭🔥 I was live pair-programming a platformer with @definitelynotgary.bsky.social during #PowerShell Wednesday and Copilot REALLY said: “This is a stupid little demo…” Honestly? That's fair, but you gotta let me down gently AI.

I'm gonna take a crack at solving some Advent of Code puzzles live using #PowerShell on Tuesday evening, 7pm Pacific. Please do come by and laugh at how long I scratch my head wondering why my code works fine on the sample input and not the real input like I do every year 😅

Are AI voice and video services the Today's version of Napster, I wonder? I just saw Sir Michael Caine is one of the living actors who appears to have agreed to let his voice be cloned and used by others.

Bluesky and small discord servers are my only refuge online from garbage AI posts and ads. People are ruining the internet and maybe it's my bias but I've seen a number of posts from others feeling the same way.

Scrolling through old photos on the ride home today and came across this gem from fitter days gone by. Me coming out of a muddy pond like swamp thing after a warrior dash with my wife and father-in-law

If you haven't checked out the weekly #powershell Wednesday live streams, it's a great chance to learn something new and chat with us nerds for an hour or so. Why is it fun to watch a couple people pair program live? I dunno, it just is 🤓

A plea to junior and senior developers alike - when someone does a build from main, please ensure that git doesn't report 46 changed files. Generally speaking, any files created or updated during a build should be considered "artifacts" and artifacts should be .gitignored.

I had the absolute joy and indescribable terror of emailing 1200 of my closest coworkers to announce we would be making the GitHub repo for our PowerShell module public tomorrow. I set my alarm for 11pm to flip the switch at 8am CET. It is done! Link to GitHub in the docs: www.milestonepstools.com

I'm combing through an export of my old FB account data for things to upload to my Immich server ( #selfhosted "google photos"). While looking up metadata for a video without accurate timestamps I found the creation time, description, AND the IP address from which it was uploaded. 12 YEARS AGO

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