Is @steampowered.com hard up for money or something? This sale on Daedalic software wants me to pay $3 and "save" $5.50 ... buying a bunch of games that I already own?

alias posh=pwsh Microsoft won’t stop you

Yeah, ('m in platform engineering, trying to help out). They've been using old (.NET Framework) SqlProj (in VS on Windows), and ignoring the SDK projects (as far as they're concerned, they're still in preview). We've moved to .NET core and Linux containers, but the SQL projects are... stuck.

What do people use for database schema/migration projects? Anyone know what the status of SDK-style SqlProj actually is? It seems they're supported in VS Code (but without tests?) still "preview" in VS2022, don't exist at all in VS2026... Are these "coming soon" or abandon-ware?

They're all wrong. Let me tell you the real story about… It feels like I daily see people in their social media echo chambers deriding majority opinions about AI, politics, economics, government, and even science without citations or sources, just the certainty that some folks agree with them. Why?

Still not loving Outlook (new)

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"

Terrible day to be literate

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

So, with Azure CDNs and Front Door all still locked down since their outage last week, what's the over/under on this being something that was vibe coded, and there's nobody available who understands it anymore?

Accurate.

For a CLI parser library, generating help is a given, why not completion script generation? Argsparse, climate & optparse do (only for bash, zsh & fish). Well, if you're writing in TypeScript, Optique now has one, and it covers bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, and Nushell! optique.dev/concepts/com...

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

When I was fighting in Iraq & Afghanistan, I needed to know that journalists could ask tough questions to hold those in power accountable. It's a dangerous moment when our leaders require the press to self-censor their reporting, or face punishment. Free speech is under attack.

I definitely don't have problems with emoji. They can be extremely succinct when used properly, E.g. Using ✅⚠️❌ as status icons in lists of output. Why do you think all the terminals (and business apps) are adding support for emoji?

It's almost like they all finally got around to reading Cory Doctorow's little piece pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/a...

Harvard found that lithium occurs naturally in the brain, and lithium deficit is one of the earliest changes leading to Alzheimer’s. May lead to better Alzheimer's diagnosis, but better yet, they found a new lithium compound that actually restored memory in mice! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Do you often find a new CLI tool on Github, go to releases, find the right binary, download, unzip, put them somewhere ... Check out FromGithub Works cross-platform, finds the right binary for the OS where it's running. You can re-run it to update. www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Fro...

Have you been thinking about how you can give back to the #PowerShell community? Anyone can teach. Anyone can share. sessionize.com/pshsu...#PowerShell

I'm working on v2.0 of TerminalBlocks. Which of these three examples is your favorite? github.com/Jaykul/Termi... You can try the pre-release: www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Ter... But it needs the pre-release of Pansies: www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Pan...

#PowerShell Runtime #Containers have been published for the 7.5.2 and 7.4.11 releases. ghcr.io/justingrote/...

The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 videos are now live on YouTube! Catch up on all the sessions you missed or rewatch your favorites. Amazing content from the community's top experts. bit.ly/444P7nI #PowerShell #DevOps #PSHSummit

“The data center industry is booming all over,” and utilities across the country are polluting more to meet data center energy demands, all when scientists agree that cutting fossil fuel emissions is more urgent than ever.

Once again @reckless.bsky.social strikes again, copyright is the only law that keeps tech inline

he's one of the biggest, most-frequent liars in the world. among other things, he said the same thing last summer, before becoming the largest-ever campaign donor in American history. Yet this post by Baker and the headline treats his statement as true. don't print lies in the newspaper!

Breaking news: A federal judge ruled the Trump administration exceeded its authority when it dismantled the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent nonprofit created by Congress.

Microsoft said its recent layoffs impacting 6,000 employees (3% of staff) was due to flattening hierarchies by removing layers of managers. However data provided to the state of Washington shows most of those impacted were individual contributors. The company’s words and actions aren’t matching up.

I finally published a pre-release of this TerminalBlocks 2.0 It depends on a pre-release of Pansies 3. 0 (with insufficient documentation yet). If you want help making prompts with TerminalBlocks, there's also a pre-release of PowerLine 4.0 (now just a TerminalBlocks wrapper).

“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” — Isaac Asimov

But what if I used those terminal blocks to make a prompt instead of neofetch. Or, you know ... why not both?

My latest fixation ... I implemented neofetch using the Sixels & TerminalBlocks modules. This requires some stuff on this pre-release branch (not to mention pre-releases of other things), but it's pretty enough to share... github.com/Jaykul/Termi...

Am I the only person who feels lied to whenever you see this?

Isn't it about time that all these neofetch clones started using modern image protocols for their logos?

Do you all know about the Metadata module? github.com/PoshCode/Met... I saw a number of people talking about psd1 files in "lightning demos" and the hallway track. Just want to make sure new folk know there's extensible serialization for it ;)

So embarrassingly predictable. The law firms are on step 3 of failing the Lando test.

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

Last night I got #Azure Service Operator working in the PoshCode #Kubernetes cluster, so I can now deploy azure resources with #yaml and #GitOps Which gives me new ways to make the same old mistakes...

MIT following Harvard's lead here

L is for LNav, one of the more impressive TUIs I highlighted, it's a full-featured log file navigator, with automatic highlighting of errors (and navigation to them), annotation support, navigate by time stamp, etc. There are 2 demos you just can ssh into to try it out: github.com/tstack/lnav

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

Posted the slides/code for all three of my PowerShell DevOps Summit talks this year to github.com/Jaykul/DevOp... I clearly need to make an automated demo of my Awesome CLI Tools talk, just to prove A-Z can be done in under 25 minutes 😂 (doing it live I only got through L)

I feel like we are in a government run by psychopaths who got the wrong lesson when they played Lifeboat in grade school... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaG2...

If they're this careless with their own personally identifiable information, imagine how careless they are being with yours.

I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

I'm really not sure why I had to wait until 2024 for images in terminals to finally come back around, but for the most ridiculous way to do graphing, let's use .NET to webdriver plotyjs and generate a PNG, convert it with imagemagick and ... Tada?