Number of days since I last got bit by C:\Windows\System32\DbgHelp.dll being useless broken junk that works in none of the debugging tools that require it, despite shipping in-box and being set as default everywhere: 0

I blogged about this a couple of years ago: blog.danskingdom.com/Prevent-NuGe...

Thanks to everyone that attended my GitHub Actions talk at @powershellsummit.org ! I've made my demo repository public. It has some useful workflow items in it as well as a semi-useful module for Actions I've published to the gallery during the session. github.com/adamdriscoll...

In .NET, is there a way to set TreatWarningsAsErrors to true *without* breaking the builds when nuget auditing fails? We want the screaming warnings when a nuget package has a vulnerability, but we don't want to break the builds for everyone, it's simply too disruptive

👀 Wait… is that RDP WebAuthn redirection working in @devolutions.net RDM Mac? 😯 We just got it working internally — stay tuned for upcoming releases ⏳🚀 Unlike Windows App for macOS, our implementation isn't limited to a few Microsoft domains — it works with any site! 🔐

A colleague encouraged me to share some of my AI prompting tips. I often see people struggle with tasks that somehow just work well for me, yet it's hard to figure out what differs in the approach. Beyond the tools and models, here are my tricks for achieving better results 🧵👇

Ugh. so winget doesn't have a local file cache of manifests with REST sources (custom winget servers) - it's always doing online calls for everything. I was hoping of getting a direct replacement for "winget show" that returns the raw manifest YAML instead of a localized text

PowerShell Universal apps in action with @steviecoaster.dev !

When was the last time you opened Visual Studio, and was it to do something *other* than just launching the app you're working on in the debugger?

Want to skip the new consent prompt for RDP connections after installing the latest Windows update? Run this 👇 $RegPath = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client"; New-Item $RegPath -Force; New-ItemProperty $RegPath -Name "RdpLaunchConsentAccepted" -Value 1 -Force

Don't feel like getting this dialog when launching .RDP files after the latest Windows update? You can launch them with MsRdpEx instead, and it'll work just like before, no registry key modification involved! github.com/Devolutions/...

Did you know @steviecoaster.dev is doing a PowerShell Universal session tomorrow at @powershellsummit.org at 1:30 PM in room 404? pshsummit2026.sched.com/event/2AaOj/...

Today's security update in Windows includes an important change to the security warnings in the built-in RDP client, affecting mstsc.exe, but also all software using the RDP ActiveX (mstscax.dll) from Windows. Read all about it here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

So I made a GitHub Actions workflow to compare 18 runner configurations to build RDM Windows from Windows or Linux, using GitHub runners and warpbuild.com runners, and then graphed the results using Claude. Even with a future $0.002/min tax for self-hosted runners, it's worth it! 👇

Packing up for @powershellsummit.org ! Leave first thing in the morning. See you tomorrow PowerShell people!

Is Windows defender enabled in GitHub cloud-hosted runners, and has anyone ever experimented with using a Dev Drive for Windows builds inside GitHub Actions runners? I'm curious to see if there's an opportunity for a speedup there

PowerShell is deprecating its MSI installer in favor of MSIX, despite current known limitations that prevent PSRemoting scenarios, or execution from system services, like the Task Scheduler. PowerShell 7.7 will *not* ship an MSI: devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/p...

I think I found why many winget commands are atrociously slow: it recursively scans a local cache of the winget-pkgs repository to search manifest files. This is not a cache path easily excluded from Sophos AV scans. A simple winget search takes over a minute, I'm not kidding 😭

Do you install PowerShell and PowerShell modules in environments with restricted Internet access? If so, what's your current way of doing it? What would be your dream solution?

If you wrap git, please test with multiple accounts, and ensure you are never calling the git cli in an ambiguous way, without the git repository URL. Getting repeated account selection prompts from the git credential manager is a big no-no: github.com/microsoft/ap...

Who's getting stoked for @powershellsummit.org ? Look at that beautiful schedule. pshsummit2026.sched.com

1007 days since we released Avalonia 11. Avalonia 12.0 is available NuGet now! Our mantra has been: PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE! avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

GitHub Copilot coding agent no longer creates pull requests by default. This means I can fire a lot of tasks from my phone, without opening PRs which I could not review first. Now the biggest issue is getting changes validated on the right runners, since it always runs on Linux

I decided to rename my module. Now it's called "GliderUI": github.com/mdgrs-mei/Gl... Cross-platform desktop GUI framework for #PowerShell built using Avalonia. - Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux - You can build GUIs by code or XAML - No more freezing GUIs

We posted our PS7.6 Postmortem regarding the delay of GA: devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/p...

My first PR to the PowerShell repo since it first went open source. 🤞 github.com/PowerShell/P...

TIL: there's a nuget package for PowerShell that you can install as a dotnet tool: www.nuget.org/packages/Pow...

I wish there was an easy way for a .NET application to import the PowerShell SDK *with the pwsh executable*. A full copy of PowerShell is already included, except the main executable entry point, which I have a use case for

Back at the cottage ❄️🐕

A trip to Seattle would not be complete without bringing back some Chukar chocolate cherries 🍒

My first #MVPSummit was a blast! I had a lot of fun meeting so many nice people, and have the opportunity to provide feedback directly to Microsoft. I'm looking forward to next year already!

After all those years, I finally got to meet @nathanmcnulty.com in person at the #MVPSummit !

First day of the #MVPSummit! Looking forward to meeting a lot of awesome people this week!

I just arrived at the Sonesta hotel where I'll be staying all week for the MVP summit. It's not too late for a swim! I'm looking forward to meeting everyone

Winter ❄️ isn't over yet!

What's the simplest way to get Windows GitHub Actions runners that support Hyper-V? That's like the one thing I've always dreamed of, and I still can't find a way to do it without fixed hardware running 24/7 or dynamic VMs that need external orchestration and cleaning up

Why does Update-Module in #PowerShell install the newer version of the module without uninstalling the old one? If you frequently update the same module, you quickly end up with several leftover module versions, and no quick and easy way to clean things up

What's the number one thing you wish UniGetUI could do? 🪄

How do you run unit tests for C# code that calls package manager command lines and parses the process output? WinGet, npm, pip, cargo, PowerShell, etc. Integration testing would require actually installing/upgrading/uninstalling packages in a controlled environment

What are good ways for a container image to accept user-provided custom root CAs without rebuilding a new container image? I'm thinking of accepting an environment variable with a base64-encoded root CA bundle that I'd import automatically

Which models would you recommend for accurate translations in a wide variety of languages? Especially for UI strings in software

I'd like to use Windows Sandbox for fast, local, automated end-to-end testing of UniGetUI with installation of packages, etc. A full VM could do the trick, but I'd like the fast startup of an ephemeral Windows 11 environment. Has anyone had success scripting this in Powershell?

Is there a way to automatically fetch the application icon matching a WinGet package id? I'm looking at improving how UniGetUI currently handles icon caching to make it much easier to maintain, but also to cover a lot more apps by default

What are solutions to easily share large sets of agent skills internally, with easy ways to update them, but also toggle them on/off within different projects? We've got a growing collection of agent skills at Devolutions, not all of them for development work, and it's spread all over the place

"there's a skill for that" is the new "there's an app for that"

Today we're running a Devolutions AI Agent Skill Hackathon internally. The challenge: build small, practical AI agent skills that automate real workflows. Excited to see what the team comes up with! 🤖🚀

multi-pwsh 0.7.0 is out with initial #PowerShell virtual environment (venv) support, through runtime hooking of PowerShell, PowerShellGet and PSResourceGet! Try it out now, let me know what you think 👇 github.com/Devolutions/...

🚀 Exciting news! Devolutions has acquired UniGetUI, the popular open-source tool for 📦 installing and updating software across WinGet, Chocolatey, PowerShell, and more from one place. Read more 👇 devolutions.net/blog/2026/03...

What are good strategies for getting an AI agent to progressively translate thousands of UI strings without losing track of where it is, or being confused by XML or JSON formatting issues? I'm currently converting to .restext which uses a simple key=value token-optimized textual format

I wish GitHub Copilot agent had an option to just push fixes on an existing branch on my behalf instead of making a pull request every time. It doesn't work the same way I would if I were using GitHub Copilot locally from VSCode to make fixes on a branch