multi-pwsh 👇

Is there a good solution for installing and updating multiple versions of PowerShell side-by-side, with non-conflicting executable aliases in PATH? For instance: pwsh as my current active default, but with pwsh-7.4, pwsh-7.5, pwsh-7.6 aliases, and a way to update each major release, etc.

I cleaned up, modernized and improved an old pet project of mine: a .NET native host in Rust that can load and call PowerShell *in-process* from its install path, without a copy of the PowerShell SDK: github.com/Devolutions/...

I renewed my IDA Pro license, and started using github.com/blacktop/ida... for the first time today. It already managed to identify undocumented GUIDs for me!

I've used monolith for the first time today to export a local static site to a single page .html file for easier sharing. I'm impressed, I already wrapped it into an agent skill for internal use: github.com/Y2Z/monolith

VSCode pro tip: open markdown files in preview mode by default by adding an editor association for "*.md" with "vscode.markdown.preview.editor" 👇

Installing the Windows Driver Kit to vibe code a Windows graphics driver in Rust ask me anything

I have wrapped my VsDevShell PowerShell module into an agent skill, such that AI agents can automatically enter a Visual Studio developer shell on-demand for tools like "msbuild" or "signtool": skills.sh/awakecoding/...

The only thing I would like better than Cursor's plan mode is if GitHub Copilot in VSCode could take inspiration from it and implementation the same kind of usability improvements that make it so awesome. This is why I opened an issue: github.com/microsoft/vs...

While everyone's talking about Claude Code Max $200/month subscriptions, there's GitHub Copilot Pro+ which only costs $39/month with *1500 premium requests included*. I swear what I'm doing with it costs a *LOT* more than $39 after burning $120 in 24 hours with Cursor

I know I'm throwing hard problems at Cursor, but I still don't really understand what's causing a huge spike of 57.3M tokens in a few minutes. I wonder if it ingested the entire windows-rs source code from the local crates.io cache

I wish GitHub Copilot in VSCode had a way to automatically try again when hitting errors, or to switch to a different model from a list of preselected models when hitting rate limits. Cursor doesn't mind, but charges $$$ for running long hours. I just need VSCode to not stop

Is there a way to render mermaid diagrams in the VSCode GitHub Copilot chat? This would be so useful

Cursor's plan mode is absolute bliss. I love the attention to detail - it always generates a nicely rendered plan file, including mermaid diagrams, and a "build" button to start executing the plan. It allowed me to see the fundamental flaw in the previous approach and suggest a different path

I've built a mock version of RDM as a web app. 2 hours total, most of my time spent doing other things in parallel. Cost: $3.50 with Composer 1.5. I had Cursor generate a demo sequence which it executed on my behalf so I could record a video 👇

Claude in PowerPoint (claude.com/claude-in-po...) is absolutely worth it. So far, my experience with AI and PowerPoint had been very frustrating and basic, but this is the real deal! I am impressed 👇

The plans I generate in GitHub Copilot can literally take 15 minutes, but once it's done, execution is usually really good. The one killer feature I long for would be a way to queue executing the plan once it's finished (switch from plan mode to agent mode + auto-execute)

The Windows App for Windows now supports connecting to Windows PCs directly 👇 $RegPath = "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsApp\Flights" New-Item -Path $RegPath -Force -EA SilentlyContinue New-ItemProperty -Path $RegPath -Name "PeerToPeerConnectionsEnabled" -Value 1 -Force

I'm quite excited about this plan. Let's dream big!

Agent Skills + PowerShell 7 = 🔥🔥🔥

I'm looking to hear from people who’ve onboarded non-developers to Cursor or VSCode - for things like reviewing websites from a product marketing perspective, or even prototyping website changes. What was your experience? How did you approach it? Any tips to share? 🙏

Avalonia 12.0.0 Preview 1 is here. Try it, break it, tell us about it. avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

What are popular sites that index agent skills? I've got skills.sh and agent-skills.md, what else is there?

My windows-protocols agent skill is now listed on agent-skills.md/skills/awake...

What's the best way to do an environment check for AGENTS.md? I'd like to strongly suggest installing my 'windows-protocols' agent skill to efficiently reference RDP protocol specifications, but I also don't want it to be annoying if the user doesn't want it

skills.sh solves a real problem (agent skill distribution) in a really nice way, now I just hope it can become suitable for private or internal agent skill distribution within an organization: github.com/vercel-labs/...

Over the past couple of months I've grown increasingly concerned around the future of PowerShell. It seems like the days of community involvement are getting less frequent so I wrote github.com/PowerShell/P.... Would love anyone else to share their thoughts if they wish to.

If you deal with Windows protocols, install my new 'windows-protocols' agent skill *now*👇 npx skills add awakecoding/openspecs --skill windows-protocols -y -g It includes 400+ Microsoft Open Specifications, converted to Markdown and optimized for AI agents 🤖🚀

What's the best way to distribute and import a 100MB+ agent skill? Let's say I have 400 Microsoft open specification documents converted to markdown with images, and want the entire set of documents to be readable on the local filesystem instead of fetched online.

Perfect weather for snowshoeing on the lake at the cottage

The winter weather is becoming nice enough for the dogs to enjoy longer walks without freezing 🥶

Why did I not realize the GitHub CLI is open source? I don't write Go, but I have GitHub Copilot. Let me see if I can implement *dynamic* account selection in gh cli because it's really the most annoying thing about using two GitHub accounts at the same time

I just wish VSCode had a built-in agentic browser to rival the one in Cursor. I know there's the "simple browser" extension, but maybe rename it to something that doesn't look basic, and put a browser-use button in the GitHub Copilot chat

Let's see how GPT-5.3 codex performs in GitHub Copilot

ICYMI, there's a discussion right now about #PowerShell releases being so far behind the .NET runtime that we are unable to fully migrate to .NET 10 in all of our products at Devolutions. PowerShell 7.6 is lagging behind by *several months*: github.com/PowerShell/P...

RDP WebAuthn redirection is implemented as a dynamic virtual channel plugin in C:\Windows\System32\webauthn.dll. For the fun of it, I asked GitHub Copilot in VSCode to make a plan to implement the DVC COM APIs in Rust such that it could be loaded in IronRDP. I let it run during a meeting. It works:

The PowerShell release schedule really needs to be improved to match the .NET runtime. We've migrated our core C# libraries to .NET 10 ahead of our next major product release in a few weeks, and just found out there's no stable version of PowerShell based on .NET 10 yet: github.com/PowerShell/P...

Why is GitHub down when I am about to open a pull request with my most successful usage of AI so far 😭

I like how Cursor can let you queue messages 👀

Good news: VSCode finally shows detailed context window usage Bad news: Claude Opus 4.6 is capped at 128K just like all the other models I don't really notice the difference, but just knowing it's capped at 128K with no option to increase it is annoying

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Switching between GitHub accounts in VSCode is very annoying, since you need to do it once per "trusted extension", and there's no way to control this based on the current VSCode profile, which would be the ideal solution. I just opened an issue: github.com/microsoft/vs...

Do you want quick and easy PowerShell Remoting over SSH that you can *automate* with password authentication? Public key authentication is obviously better, but the initial configuration is often done using password-based authentication. Install-Module AwakeCoding.PSRemoting Enjoy!

@vcsjones.dev do you know if the .NET runtime now has enough built-in crypto to support a *pure* .NET SSH client library? The official PowerShell Remoting over SSH implementation is hardcoded to use the OpenSSH client, and I believe it's time for that to change: bsky.app/profile/awak...

🚀🔥 The new PowerShell Universal Developer Edition unlocks ALL features for $0, when running on your developer workstation! Build, test, experiment freely — no limits, no compromises. This is the real deal! 🔗 devolutions.net/blog/2026/02...

What's cooking? PowerShell Remoting over SSH, in pure .NET, without the OpenSSH client. And yes, it can interactively prompt for credentials or accept them as input for automation 👇

Excellent blog post on how to deploy LDAPS with high availability in Active Directory - it correctly covers all the potential issues involved, such that you don't end up accidentally breaking security features like LDAP channel binding 👇 michaelwaterman.nl/2026/01/31/b...

What are good strategies for maintaining a downstream fork in GitHub, with a clean upstream branch without any downstream changes, and a downstream master branch which is frequently rebased on top of the upstream? Pull requests and branch protection don't play well with this kind of approach

UniGetUI is pretty cool. Integrated with WinGet, Scoop, @chocolatey.org, PowerShell Gallery, etc github.com/marticliment...

PowerShell 7 still lacks an arm64 Linux debian package when it had an official one for Linux x64 for several years already. This shouldn't be that hard, especially with AI today: github.com/PowerShell/P...