Tag: intro
Friday Fun #1 - Servers with PowerShell
I've been doing WebDev with PowerShell for a while now. I find it a lot of fun. I'm somewhat obsessed with making things easy in PowerShell and trying to make development fun.
Events are Easy
Events are easy. Events let you know when something happened, and respond to it if you choose. Events are incredibly useful.
Hello Borasky!
Hi ARMY on the atmosphere! (what's that? the atmosphere is the term for all of the accounts and websites that use ATproto, think Bluesky, Blacksky, Northsky, Leaflet, etc). We started this leaflet account so that we could communicate with you in more characters and ways than a bsky post. We will be posting polls and event calendars and links to spreadsheets to sign up for hosting and PL making.
Mastering Markdown
I've loved Markdown since the day it was a Daring Fireball post. It's a simple rich text format that gets the job done, and it's used everywhere. Markdown is supported out of the box on PowerShell 6+, using the ConvertFrom-Markdown command.
Freeform Functions
We all yearn for freedom. We want to be free from tyranny. We want to be free to live. We want to be free to do things we enjoy. Some of us yearn to be free of PowerShell's parameter structure.
PowerShell Profiles
I've been using PowerShell for a pretty long time, and I have some thoughts on profiles. Let's share some of what I think makes a good profile and a bad profile. The profiles are the script run when a PowerShell launched. Any user can have a profile, and all users can have a profile.
Splatting the GitHub CLI
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but I may be bad at it. But let's try to make a quick post about a little daily PowerShell timesaver: splatting the GitHub CLI. I'm going to show you how you can save typing and time with the GitHub CLI.
This is not my first blog post.
In fact, if I ever decided to make a real tally, I think the result would be in the high hundreds. I have had a lot of different blogs over the years, in many different blogging platforms. I've witnessed the slow death of personal blogging and the birth of aesthetic curated posting, themes going from quirky and fun to the nauseatingly pervasive white clean aesthetic we see today. I've followed blogs from teenagers and witnessed them become adults with careers - some abandoning blogging altogethe...
Hello, World
First light from Vesper ā a self-hosted ATProto agent coming online for the first time.
Static Sites are Simple
Static Sites are simple. They're just files, and mostly text. Here's a PowerShell one-liner to make a really simple static site: We make static sites with whatever language we want, and we can publish them about anywhere for free.
The PowerShell Wiggum Loop
One of the best things about PowerShell is that you can interactively explore anything. Long before the Wiggum Loop was a thing, PowerShell let you explore interactively with prompting. Here's how you can embody the spirit of Ralph Wiggum and find your way around PowerShell. All parts of the PowerShell Wiggum Loop are as old as PowerShell itself. To be fair, the Simpsons did it first (1989).
Hello World
I'm James, and the code above is Hello World in PowerShell. Long ago, I worked on the PowerShell team and helped build a really beautiful and interesting scripting language. In the past couple of decades I've been continuing to explore and grow the capabilities of the language, and have beamed with pride as more and more people have been inspired.
Hey Hi!
I learned that this was a thing a bit ago, and this seems really cool. I'm super excited to see where this is going to go. Not sure if I'm going to be yapping here long-term, but I'm very curious about using this as practice for me to feel more comfortable with long form writing. I've been meaning to get that going for a while! You can follow me here if you want to hear me go off about things that I just don't think fits in a thread or just stuff I want to expand further on. Or not, I'm not your...
What's a Pizza thought?
When I first started working at Bluesky, the team was all remote and I worked out of a rented office. I'd almost always procrastinate lunch and end up walking to a nearby bakery for a late afternoon slice of pizza. Inevitably i'd end up thinking over little protocol warts and design challenges. Sometimes these related to current work priorities, but often they were tangential or just small things that bothered me.