Insightful. Interesting. Worth a watch... www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7xK...

ffmpeg too? I sure hope that the end result of the AI colonoscopy of old code results in better, safer code and products. But the journey from now to then might get bumpy.

Ran across an old script that had a cool parameter named -DebugMyHorribleShit

If you're married, and your spouse describes another couple and how one is always "bitchy" to the other, and then says "I'm not like that, am I?" - apply your most emphatic, sincere, Broadway theater-trained skills to say "never!" Trust me. Adds years to your life.

It’s that time of the week again! PowerShell Weekly for June 5, 2026 is here with all the scripts and tips you need to automate like a pro. #PowerShell #Automation #TechNews psweekly.dowst.dev?p=8968

Introducing the Summer of Variables! For the next 8 weeks, I'll be releasing a new PoshBit video every day covering the 47 different PowerShell automatic variable. One variable. 30 seconds or less. Every day. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #PowerShell #Automation #DevOps

The mockingbirds are aggressive right now, I have to walk my little terrier out in the yard like her bodyguard so she can do her business in peace. I draw their fire while she sets the booby traps. Poor girl.

(credit: @csail.mit.edu )

I really like @warp.dev and I just renewed my Pro plan at $180 for 2500 monthly credits. But next renewal it jumps to $216/mo and drops credits to 1500. I'll have to part ways with it then. It's like having a race car that I can't afford to fill the gas tank anymore.

Reddit winner of the typo-of-the-day award... www.reddit.com/r/motorcycle...

Sub-100-level-causes-expert-scripters-to-roll-their-eyes tip of the day for #powershell: If you're tired of $string.Trim() throwing an exception when $stirng is #$NULL, try $([string]$string).Trim() - Or try ice cold margaritas, whichever makes you happier.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG8n... - I welcome competition 10000000% in any market. Bring it!

Instruction: "When I ask you to proofread code, assume it was from <select: Claude, Codex, GH Copilot, etc.> and include a snarky/blaming comment when you find mistakes. Then offer some reassuring words to boost my fragile ego, but not too gently."

Updated the instruction for my GitHub Copilot in VSCode to specify a consistent version comment format. It seems to follow that when it's not a day ending with "y".

The only science I really care about is either curing cancer in children, or extending the life of cars and dogs.

Dave's law No. 4 - The more convoluted or inconvenient an application is to use, the less likely it is the vendor uses their own product internally.

AI tip-o-the-day: If you ask an agent to generate a backup plan, ask it to analyze the restore process against it. Then ask if it's backing up unnecessary ephemeral data. You'd be surprised how often it will find it's own mistakes and correct them.

I thought Amazon's search/filter bad. Oh no. Giphy apparently doesn't even look at your search entry at all. You can enter "lawnmower" and get squirrels baking a cake. It's basically useless. No wonder Teams' GIF selector is terrible.

Speaking of my $5 bet that AD will be deprecated (not discontinued) by 2027 (made at MMS 2022), in favor of #EntraID auth, the trajectory is still on track... youtu.be/fGHj1yXynM0?...

That was a short sabbatical.

Can anyone, who hasn't consumed alcohol, ketamine or wild mushrooms, explain why "Automatic replies" and "Signatures" are buried under "Account" in Outlook, instead of "Mail"? Was that like a parting joke for a laid off UX engineer?

Before I go on sabbatical, just one more gripe, if I may: The person(s) who decided this was a great idea, should be sent to a work camp assembling Ken and Barbie dolls for a year.

Chill with one of my favorite bands. Enjoy, while I unplug for a while - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e4o...

If you use Instagram (no hate, please) there's a really cool channel "itsmarcellina" who covers AI, tech and tech markets in a really cool/unusual way with hand-drawn diagrams. Thumbs up!

Best conversation misunderstanding I've heard this week: "spread cheeks!?" "No! Spreadsheets" "Oh!!"

Tired of boring Teams/Zoom meetings? Have everyone tilt their camera at random angles before joining the next one. But don't tell one person. Then act like it's only them that's having video issues.

damn. The ending is heavy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Kr...

I find it really annoying that GitHub Copilot doesn't know today's date. When I'm incrementing a revision table and go to the date column it ALWAYS puts in a random date by default. Come on.

3000 years ago, on a warm spring night just like this one, someone was enjoying a glass of wine, on a bench swing, watching the stars, and trying to figure out the meaning of life. Cheers

Why is it that every single time I write an article, even after combing through it a dozen times, running through AI for corrections and improvements, and it looks fine, as soon as I publish it I immediately see glaring holes in it? What tf is that about?

Tech nerds w/ blogs that provide detailed troubleshooting, upgrade, #deployment, pkging, #config mgt tips and step-by-steps: How do you feel about #AI scraping your work to share with the world while charging $$ for it? [A] Feels great! [B] Don't really care [C] Not happy about it [D] Pissed off

Phew! For a minute I thought there was a problem.

People behind me in grocery checkout lines who reach over to loudly place the divider bar and heavy sigh to do their passive aggressive thing can just go eat a box of Tide pods.

Me, "holy cow! There are a lot of oil change places!" Also me, "and every single one has a line around the block?!"

PowerShell function names are more than personal preference. In this PoshBytes, I cover how `Get-Verb` helps you find approved verbs, make your commands easier to discover, and keep PowerShell from judging you. youtube.com/shorts/kEXed... #PowerShell #Automation #Scripting #DevOps

This might be the first time in western cultural history where there hasn't been any radically new styles, music, art or philosophy. Everything seems more like an evolution than a revolution. That, or it's really just too much of everything. Sensory overload. Everything is special, so nothing is.

Gotta love Facebook Marketplace. $80 gazebos and $3500 grills... "Like new!"

Now that Entra Cloud Sync is popping champagne bottles, maybe someone can circle back and finish the portal features for managed identity Graph API permissions. I mean, #powershell is nice, but it could be a better experience.

My tinfoil hat prediction: US power grids will experience outages during a heat wave, which will be blamed on (insert foreign nation) to claim justification for invading/bombing. Otherwise known as a ____-____ operation, and no, the first word isn't goat.

Today's phun phact: 4 out of 5 people are not in the top 20% and 4 out of 5 people are not in the bottom 20%

Hey #PowerShell people. Ever want to make a function that accepts any input? I just published a PowerShell @pckt.blog post all about freeform functions. May you all enjoy the freedom they bring: pckt.blog/b/posh/freef...

ok, just one more... taking the trash out and heard my neighbor tell some kid trying to park in front of his mailbox: "Yeah. If you park there, I get to park my foot up yo ass!" (kid chose another parking spot)

ok. I'm done for today. Turning on STFU mode.

And my personal fave: competing 3rd party anti-badstuff products trying to block each other on every device. Or worse, on some devices based on random condition matches. Humans again. And with AI learning from humans: move fast = break faster.

And another one: ID logging for duplicate avoidance (never use the same UPN twice ever), but the onboarding process didn't have a $Testing param to skip the step. So UAT just keeps pumping it full like a senator's bank account.

Another fun one: stale account cleanup. Searching for lastSignInDateTime > 90 days ago, etc. or lastSignInDateTime is $null/blank. But forgot about new accounts that haven't been logged into yet. Nuked before learning to walk.

Working with junior sysadmins on an AD "issue" and realized how often people overlook the sneaky, diabolical, backdoor, pickpocket, boat-leak of a thing the login script can be when a user calls to say something is broken. Try this...

"I hear you have a standardized, streamlined, optimized, efficient, battle-tested automation solution! That sounds perfect. Only thing, is we need you make some changes for us."

#microsoft System Center 2025 feels like buying a Lambo and then opening the hood to see it's a body bolted onto a Toyota chassis and drive train.