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...
What was your issue?
Thought I had some in a gist, but seems not! Just on holiday, but will try and grab them asap
I do a similar thing for testing chocolatey packages, with a custom wsb file that maps a folder and kicks off some scripts. Output can be written back to that mapped folder. The worst thing is probably the inability to thread multiple (to my knowledge)
(2010, possible 3d modelling class and the view out of my window at 4am at the time)
(Iceland)
I love the places March 8th has apparently taken me, based on my photos:
Looks good! I'll have to have a play when I'm back at my machine!
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
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Working on one of my hobbies over the weekend. Ignore the smeared paint on my fingers; choosing to paint red with red varnish on my nails might not have been the best idea.
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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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)
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!
Apologies, it looks like one instance I was thinking of was the panorama mode and not face manipulation specifically! www.theverge.com/2023/12/2/23...
There's a few stories out about "bride to be surprised by reflection staring at her" and similar where iPhones seamlessly (or "without prompting or permission") stitch together multiple frames to have all detected faces looking at the camera - fine, until some of them are reflections that look odd!
That's super cool! What are you using for it?
Screenshot of VSCode showing 46 changes in a repo. Except I didn't make any changes. All I did was a build. Cloning main and performing a build should never result in 46 changes to the repo. If it does, it means you are either not using .gitignore properly and/or your build artifacts aren't targetting a proper "output" directory. When you perform a build, any files created or modified during that build should be considered "artifacts" and those artifacts should never be committed to the repo IMO. There are always exceptions such as when a build also generates or updates documentation that you commit and maintain as a part of the repo rather than an artifact. There are mixed opinions on that practice.
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.
Well, that's intriguing - I feel like I should have known this!
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.
Screenshot from the MilestonePSTools home page with the text: Manage XProtect at ANY scale Configure. Automate. Report. You decide what is possible on the Open Platform. Compatible with all supported versions of XProtect.
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
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...
Fwiw, though I'm loving that definition, nuzzle is an actual word not just a blend-ish of nose and cuddle.
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
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.
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!
I'll say that my general take isn't that it's always _wrong_ as much as I can _never trust it_ - so this last part hits far closer to home than the first, for me.
I'm not saying I walked in to see @stevenjudd.bsky.social flashing this message buuut... (Great to see you!)
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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
