James Ruskin
@ja.mesrusk.in
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A PowerShell enthusiast with too many hobbies that he doesn't really manage to do any more.
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Valve
9 days ago
Excited to announce our Steam Controller arrives on Steam May 4th at 10 a.m. PT. Learn more and wishlist here:
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamco...
@steampowered.com
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Steam Controller
Your games at your fingertips
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller
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Marc-André Moreau
26 days ago
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...
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PowerShell MSI package deprecation and preview updates - PowerShell Team
This post announces the deprecation of MSI packaging beginning with PowerShell 7.7.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-msi-deprecation/
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I love the places March 8th has apparently taken me, based on my photos:
about 2 months ago
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Andrew Pla
4 months ago
One thing I really appreciate learning
#PowerShell
is how it demystified so much for me. Actually being able to poke and query things gave me the closure my brain needed to really understand the tech I was using What accelerated that learning? Asking questions 1/2
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️
4 months ago
Hobbies are good for you, crafting ones in particular. It boosts overall well-being and increases life satisfaction. Your boss should let you spend some time at work doing them - it boosts creativity and even engagement with the job. 🧪 link:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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PSHSummit
4 months ago
Get ready, because the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is just around the corner! 📅 April 13, 2026 🎟️ Tickets are available now 📍 Bellevue, WA For more information, visit: 🔗
www.powershellsummit.org
#PSHSummit26
#PowerShell
#DevOps
#Automation
#TechConference
#Community
#CareerGrowth
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Home | PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the gathering of PowerShell and DevOps professionals and enthusiasts. Join us for North America's only PowerShell Conference.
https://www.powershellsummit.org
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Björn Sundling
4 months ago
Hey
#PowerShell
peeps! The new auto complete thing in VSCode is messing up our terminals. It doesn't auto complete actual functions. Give this an upvote to get a fix in to the backlog and (hopefully) improve it!
github.com/microsoft/vs...
(And share onwards for visibly. Can't have a bad terminal)
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Terminal suggest doesn't get content from the actual terminal session. · Issue #285640 · microsoft/vscode
Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No Yes Terminal auto suggest entries are not based on actual terminal functions, and suggestions are therefore not correct. If I create ...
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/285640#issuecomment-3711926951
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So, managed [71-and-a-bit books](
blog.justpowerdown.com/what-i-read-...
) this year (with a fair few re-reads) - I'm pretty happy with that! Binged Dresden, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and Sandman Slim (amongst other series), and found some new authors and books that I'm itching to explore! Here's to 2026!
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What I read in 2025
I saw someone talking about what they'd read so far in 2025, and though I've re-read a lot of my comfort series this year (as I seem to keep doing) it was interesting to revisit what I had read throug...
https://blog.justpowerdown.com/what-i-read-in-2025/
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Josh Hendricks | MVP
5 months ago
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.
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Well, that's intriguing - I feel like I should have known this!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Jon Ingold
5 months ago
The full stream of
#AdventureX
talks is up now - below is a link to mine, on story generation from first principles, in twenty minutes, with jokes. Come for the Muppet Treasure Island, stay for Bob Eurypides.
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AdventureX 2025 — Day 1
01:20 Jon Ingold — Always Trade Up: From Inspiration to Storyline 30:31 Kathryn Vinclaire — Casting Actors For Indie Games - How to Get AAA Results on an Indie Budget 1:31:10 Najmah Salam — How to Position Your Game Like A Pro 2:01:32 Dominic Armato (Keynote) — Defeating Impostor Syndrome: The Threepwood Method 3:42:58 Mairi Nolan — The Diegetic Lock: Designing Puzzles that Belong in Your World 4:20:05 Husban Siddiqi and Adam Riches — From Jam to Launch: A Fireside Chat About Loco Motive 5:13:27 Steph Rennick and Séan Roberts — What’s Going Wrong with Women’s Dialogue in Video Games? 5:48:32 Thomas Regin, Mark Benis, Jade Leamcharaskul & Paul Zimmermann (Panel hosted by Seoirse Dunbar) — Storytelling Through Audio: The Hidden Narrative 7:01:11 John Robertson (Show) — The Dark Room AdventureX is the UK's only convention dedicated to narrative-driven gaming. Since 2011, AdventureX has been bringing together developers & gamers with a passion for interactive storytelling.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MoIph1LBKIY&t=80s
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Josh Hendricks | MVP
6 months ago
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
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james lantz
6 months ago
Inspired by some great discussion on Q-UP from
@austinwalker.bsky.social
,
@notquitereal.bsky.social
,
@sylvibullet.bsky.social
,
@molleindustria.org
and other folks, I wrote a short piece on the design inspiration for Q-UP and what developing the game meant to me
stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...
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Qing-UP in the Age of Tilt
As anyone who has played 5 seconds of League of Legends knows, competitive multiplayer games have a tilt problem.
https://stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in-the-age-of-tilt
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WiLLson ➟ 👨💻 🐍
6 months ago
Automate user onboarding like a pro → Write a PowerShell script that: creates users, assigns groups, sets passwords → Add automatic email notifications → Log every action to a CSV This is the kind of thing managers notice. You’re not just repeating steps you’re building trust in your reliability.
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I enjoyed seeing
@jsnover.com
talk, last year, and was reminded of it by [this article](
medium.com/@sebastianca...
) today. Roll on
@psconf.eu
next year!
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The PowerShell Manifesto Radicalized Me
This article contains swearing (Quoted, from Bill Gates).
https://medium.com/@sebastiancarlos/the-powershell-manifesto-radicalized-me-0959d0d86b9d
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I'm not saying I walked in to see
@stevenjudd.bsky.social
flashing this message buuut... (Great to see you!)
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PSHSummit
6 months ago
🚀 The wait is over! Tickets are officially live for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026 — April 13–16. 🎟️ Secure your spot now before early-bird tickets sell out! 🔗
www.powershellsummit.org/tickets/
#PSHSummit2026
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Tickets | PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit
Register for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. Choose from General Admission or the On-Ramp program for beginners.
https://www.powershellsummit.org/tickets/
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Topotoy Labs
7 months ago
If you fly a plane while maintaining a constant compass heading, you'll trace a STRAIGHT line on a Mercator projection map, but your actual trajectory on the planet will SPIRAL into one of the poles.
#indiedev
#gamedev
#computergraphics
#computationalgeometry
#topology
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oli
7 months ago
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
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Gilbert Sanchez (💻 HeyItsGilbert)
7 months ago
I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at
@powershellsummit.org
2026! 1. From Burnout to Built-to-Last: The Open Source Org Advantage 2. Markdown Madness: Static Sites for Fun & Profit Two topics I'm super passionate about! If you’re headed to
#PSHSummit
, let’s connect!
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Kieron Gillen
7 months ago
This went live last night - a big PDF bundle of the books I've written at Image. Includes The Wicked + the Divine, DIE, Phonogram, Ludocrats, the first Power Fantasy, We called them giants, etc. Basically, this is the stuff I got into comics to do, and a great chance to grab it.
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Humble Comic Bundle: Roll for Initiative with Kieron Gillen by Image Comics
Dive into one of comics’ most creative minds with our Kieron Gillen bundle, featuring The Wicked + The Divine, and more! Pay what you want and support BINC!
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/roll-for-initiative-with-kieron-gillen-image-comics-books
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!
over 1 year ago
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7 months ago
3#\NOW.?}THEY82^_TELL@[}-ME*/} Your passwords don’t need so many fiddly characters, NIST says
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Your passwords don't need so many fiddly characters, NIST says
There are new rules for your password—and the passwords of your employees. Read NIST's latest guidance on password security.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/your-passwords-dont-need-so-many-fiddly-characters-nist-says
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Robert Prüst
7 months ago
Starting today off with a new blogpost! Here's some tips to think about when you're thinking about creating new
#PowerShell
modules.
powershellpr0mpt.com/2025-10-07-t...
I'm really curious to see if there are specific topics you would want me to dive deeper into!
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The Struggles of Module Development
What you might not have thought about when starting a new module - from naming conventions to build scripts
https://powershellpr0mpt.com/2025-10-07-the-struggles-of-module-development/
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Guy Leech
7 months ago
London
#PowerShell
User Group in person Meetup is tomorrow evening
www.meetup.com/powershell-l...
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London PSUG September Meetup @ Jane Street, Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Join us at Jane Street for this meetup! There will be drinks, food, and SWAG!!! Make sure your register here (mandatory)! **Schedule:** * 17:30 Arrival & Welcome Drinks *
https://www.meetup.com/powershell-london-uk/events/310693955/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=one_day_v5&dispatch_id=68d283a05a1d0e567c119d314d01c038&action=rsvp&refund_policy=true&fromEmail=310693955&_af=event&_af_eid=310693955&response=3
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Eric Migicovsky
8 months ago
Good news, everyone! We've released a beta version of new Pebble app for iOS and Android. It works with ALL old Pebble watches! See what's working so far:
ndocs.repebble.com/changelog
Pls report bugs - button in app! iOS
testflight.apple.com/join/T17YYZYq
Android
play.google.com/apps/testing...
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Pebble - Software Changelog
Current software development status
https://ndocs.repebble.com/changelog
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mdgrs
8 months ago
In the next release of WinUIShell, I'm sorting out multi-threaded event callbacks. This example shows three concurrent progress bars with a pause button for each:
github.com/mdgrs-mei/Wi...
I hope the code feels much easier than WPF in PowerShell🙏
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Gilbert Sanchez (💻 HeyItsGilbert)
8 months ago
#PowerShell is global, but most modules still speak only English. I wrote a blog post (
gilbertsanchez.com/p...
#PowerShell
on how to fix that with surprisingly simple built-in tools and community-driven translation workflows that actually work:
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¿No Habla Inglés?: PowerShell Localization in Practice
PowerShell localization made simple: step-by-step localization, community-driven translations, and best practices for developers.
https://gilbertsanchez.com/posts/no-habla-ingles-powershell-localization-practice/
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Microsoft MVP Tracker
8 months ago
🚨New Microsoft MVP Alert🚨
Robert Prust
Award Category: Microsoft Azure Technology Area: PowerShell Country: Netherlands
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Ben Reader | 🔌😈
8 months ago
Wake up, babe - new Powers Hell merch just dropped.
#PowerShell
#MVPBuzz
@psconf.eu
#SWAG
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Powers Hell Merch
Spring Store
https://merch.powers-hell.com/
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Encephalophatass
almost 2 years ago
Every terminally online person should have at least one grass-touching friend to whom they can send screenshots of internet convos so the grass-toucher can go "Respectfully, I have no idea what is going on here". Keeps you grounded.
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Sam Rose
9 months ago
Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.
e-mail.wtf
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Email is Easy
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?
https://e-mail.wtf/
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DevOpsDays Kansas City
9 months ago
And we are ready to start with
#DevOpsDays
KC!
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Gilbert Sanchez (💻 HeyItsGilbert)
9 months ago
Last week, @dotdot.horse and I launched PSInclusive, a new GitHub org dedicated to publishing tools that support differently abled folks. We kicked things off during
#PSWednesday
with the Accessibility
#PowerShell
module, a collection of functions designed to help differently abled folks. 1/3
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Adam Driscoll
9 months ago
I added some best practices around the cache in PowerShell Universal. We had a user caching 65k+ Entra ID users in a single cache item and it led to very poor performance of the server in general. Just be careful with complex objects.
docs.powershelluniversal.com/config/best-...
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Best Practices | PowerShell Universal
Learn how to best configure PowerShell Universal.
https://docs.powershelluniversal.com/config/best-practices#limit-or-partition-size-of-persistent-cache
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Adil Leghari
9 months ago
It was never about the code we shipped. The real gift was the pipelines we broke along the way.
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Liam Flannery
9 months ago
working on a windows 95 themed automation game about making powerpoint decks
#gamedev
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Thrillhouse Gaming
9 months ago
🫣
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PSConfEU
9 months ago
PSConfEU turns 10! 🎉 Our 2026 logo celebrates this milestone with gold accents, the number 10 hidden in
#Wiesbaden
, and 3 fleur-de-lis from the city’s crest. Same purple. New city. Same world-class content.
#PSConfEU
#
#PowerShell
#automation
#IT
#conference
#Germany
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Gilbert Sanchez (💻 HeyItsGilbert)
10 months ago
I just realized that I could add the following to my GH actions, I can get debug output when re-running actions with debug logging: ```yaml env: DEBUG: ${{ runner.debug == '1' }} ``` ```pwsh if($env:DEBUG -eq 'true' -or $env:DEBUG -eq '1') { $DebugPreference = 'Continue' } ```
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Griff Barker
10 months ago
Pro: Lots of PowerShell-related event session recordings have been posted recently. Con: My YouTube "Watch Later" playlist is now entirely too long.
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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT
10 months ago
I hope upper management somewhere looks at all the hosting costs for their games, and concludes "you know, we could save thousands on hosting and moderation costs if we made the players host their own infrastructure and do their own moderation!", thereby accidentally reinventing dedicated servers
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Stephen Valdinger (aka steviecoaster)
10 months ago
Hey! I'm presenting to London
#PowerShell
User Group TOMORROW (July 23,20205) on creating modern, beautiful UIs in
#PowerShell
using WinUIShell. The session will be held virtually, in Gather, which is a really cool interactive platform. You can get information to join us at:
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London PSUG July 2025 Virtual Meetup, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**Schedule - UTC+1** •18:00: Open chatter and introductions •18:30: CTRL+ALT+Beautiful: PowerShell GUIs with WinUI - **Stephen Valdinger** •19:30: TBC •20:30: Event ends,
https://www.meetup.com/powershell-london-uk/events/308252124/
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London PowerShell User Group
10 months ago
⏳ Few days left! # PowerShell Meetup – Tues 23 July @ 6pm (BST) 🎨 CTRL+ALT+Beautiful: PowerShell GUIs with
#WinUI
(@steviecoaster.dev) 🧭 PSConfEU 2025 Recap – Key insights from Malmö with
@steviecoaster.dev
🎟️ Free, register here:
www.meetup.com/powershell-l...
#WinUI
#PSConfEU
#Meetup
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London PSUG July 2025 Virtual Meetup, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**Schedule - UTC+1** •18:00: Open chatter and introductions •18:30: CTRL+ALT+Beautiful: PowerShell GUIs with WinUI - **Stephen Valdinger** •19:30: TBC •20:30: Event ends,
https://www.meetup.com/powershell-london-uk/events/308252124/
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PSConfEU
10 months ago
#PowerShell
tip from
#PSConfEU
2025 🧵 Are your functions truly pipeline-friendly?
@psfred.bsky.social
showed how to: ✔ Use ValueFromPipeline correctly ✔ Embrace Begin/Process/End ✔ Avoid output arrays ✔ Use steppable pipelines for perf 🎟️ Tickets for 2026 →
psconf.eu
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- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/Q19n1ST7K0Q?si=9TLS71T09iPJKjye
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Movies. Games. TV.
10 months ago
Heaven's Vault (2019) |
@inkle.co
| PC
#aliyaelasra
#archaeologist
#mural
#heavensvault
#inkle
#scifi
#adventuregame
#narrativegame
#puzzlegame
#indiegame
#indiegames
#games
#gaming
#gamephotography
#ingamephotography
#virtualphotography
#screenshot
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London PowerShell User Group
10 months ago
🎯 PowerShell Meetup – 23rd July @ 6pm (BST) 🎙️ PowerShell GUIs with WinUI –
@steviecoaster.dev
📣 PSConfEU 2025 Roundup –
@steviecoaster.dev
💬 Talks, community & informal chats 📝 Info & registration:
www.meetup.com/powershell-l...
#PowerShell
#Meetup
#ITCommunity
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Susie Dent
10 months ago
Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.
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mdgrs
11 months ago
WinUIShell v0.4.0 is now a self-contained release which means you don't need to install any other dependencies. Install-PSResource WinUIShell. You are ready to create a WinUI 3 window from PowerShell.
github.com/mdgrs-mei/Wi...
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GitHub - mdgrs-mei/WinUIShell: Scripting WinUI 3 with PowerShell
Scripting WinUI 3 with PowerShell. Contribute to mdgrs-mei/WinUIShell development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/mdgrs-mei/WinUIShell/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#requirements
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