Congrats, and thanks for all you’ve done for PowerShell and our careers. Thanks for taking the time to chat a few weeks ago. See you at Summit! 💜

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@adilio.ca wrote a tool for this: qrcheck.ca. It resolves the site remotely and shows you what it would actually take you to.

You want one of mine!? 😅💜

Fear will have you believe you're not good enough.
Fear will attempt to rob you of the joy of trying that new thing because you think you can't.

Fear is a liar.

You *are* good enough, and can do things even when they're hard.

So be enough and do incredible things. Be fearless.

Happy Friday!

Stephen Valdinger

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I, for one, would miss the tech commentary laced in sardonic humour!

It was never about the code we shipped.
The real gift was the pipelines we broke along the way.

Mentorship - T-SQL Tuesday This past weekend, I attended my first SQL Saturday event in Atlanta and I had a blast. One of the lightning talks was on The Benefits of Mentoring, and the speaker invited bloggers to write about the...

It's been nearly two years since I've written an article for my technical journal. While it's not exactly directly related to #PowerShell, it is related to community and mentorship.

#tsql2sday #CareerDevelopment #TechCommunity #TechMentoring #Mentorship

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Brett is an amazing friends and even better Dad! If you can afford it, please help is daughter continue to DOMINATE at the Robotics Finals! 🦾💜

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Congrats, how was your first day waking up in the new house!?

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Don't forget your towel!

This is awesome! I wasn’t aware there was a shortage of useful OAUTH2/OIDC content for #PowerShell… hmm. I did spend a few years at Okta; would a talk or blog on OAUTH2/OIDC, JWT’s, or scopes and claims be helpful?

I see a @jontravels.bsky.social post, I like it! That’s always the deal! 💜

Hey #PowerShell & #Bluesky Gang! Great to see all the engagement here. Since my notifications are blowing up, I’ve turned off notifications on this app until we can get granular pings only for things like replies and DM’s. So, sorry if I don’t reply quick… yet another app I have to go async on. 😅🙏🏼

Luma · Delightful Events Start Here From beautiful event pages to effortless invites and ticketing, Luma is all you need to host a memorable event.

Till about a few months ago, I would have said Eventbrite, but my local #ISACA group started using Luma, and I really dig it. It’s free for free events. lu.ma

Let’s help Jake pump up these numbers! He’s the smartest AD Security Guy I know, and more importantly a Kind Human! 💜

GitHub - t3dotgg/quickpic: Turn SVGs into high resolution PNGs in 2 clicks. Built because Theo was mad. Turn SVGs into high resolution PNGs in 2 clicks. Built because Theo was mad. - t3dotgg/quickpic

Repo here: github.com/t3dotgg/quic...

Video here: youtu.be/G2_D2bYFjY4?...

QuickPic - Quick Tools For Images A bunch of simple tools for images. All free. No BS.

BIG 🙏🏼 shout out to Theo @t3.gg for seeing the terrible spammy or paid image transform tools online, and just building the tools himself and for everyone! quickpic.t3.gg
Great lesson here: if it’s a problem for you, just build the thing. Even if you struggle, you’ll learn a lot in the process!

I too am feeling the draw to #Python, but don’t want my #PowerShell card revoked just yet 😅. It really does seem like MSFT is going all in on Python, building it into tools like Excel.

If you’ve ever felt intimidated by the online Tech Community:
1. Don’t be.
2. Come check out #PowerShell Community on Slack/Discord/IRC/Reddit.
Bar none, the loveliest, most welcoming and helpful folks I’ve come across in all my years in Tech!

It’s heartwarming to see the #PowerShell community on #Bluesky! Feels like Tech Twitter of old, and I’m totally here for it! 🥰

Pinning an old message from Twitter here. 👇🏼

If you're part of the exodus from X, check out this PowerShell Community starter pack.

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