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Posts by Nathan Ziehnert (The Z-Nerd)
Chipotle never beating the portion size allegations... not trying to be all "back in my day" but damn they stingy AF now (and have been for awhile)... reminded me why I don't go out to fast casual (or even out to eat) that often anymore...
Are you in the Phoenix area on December 12th? If so, I'll be chatting on OEM drivers at #ASZMUG. Don't like me (can't blame you) - @niehaus.bsky.social and Andreas Hammarskjöld are also speaking. Special thanks to @2pintsoftware.com and phoenixNAP!
Register here: azsmug.gitbook.io/arizona-syst...
Ahh yes, sure… just let me pull out my decompiler and debugger…
Still in testing, but it’s a pattern anyone can use to manage Intune like any other Infrastructure as Code system.
github.com/AllwaysHyPe/...
DNS is the “Sex Panther” of services that run the internet… “60% of the time, it works every time.”
Screenshot showing a Visual Studio window running a debug build of PowerShell
What have I done?! @mmsmoa.bsky.social
Counting down the days...
mms2025atmoa.sched.com/event/1uF5w/...
Wildly incorrect reasoning logic by the DeepSeek R1 NPU distillation released by Microsoft
Solid reasoning coming out of Microsoft’s DeepSeek R1 NPU Optimized distillation…
“Wait, but in PowerShell, you can’t have a script with just one line unless it’s a single-line script”
At least it’s fast?
Sigh…
I’m officially declaring this video clip retired. Perfect. No notes.
This must be how it feels when I walk into a room and computers start working again
Fridge water dispenser not working after getting back from vacation
pull fridge out, check valve, line, etc… all looks good. ugh
Finally get around to chatting with LG today:
“please check this (10 things that I’ve already done)”
“I already did”
“Please do it again”
Dispenser starts working
MFW
It's always a pleasure to have Nathan Ziehnert at MMS. Congrats Nathan and welcome as our Featured Speaker for #MMSMOA 2025. See ya in Minneapolis!
Register Today: www.mmsmoa.com/mms2025moa
May 4-8, 2025
#ITpros #MSIntune #ConfigMgr #Windows #Security
0.001% of listeners…
You know a new Athletics jam hates to see me coming…
Mallgoth Rock Out Post-Hardcore Listening to artists like La Dispute, Touché Amore, and Circa Survive Spotify Wrapped
When I realize that my frontal lobe is developed and this is my brain forever. Jim Henson character.
Closeup of same Jim Henson character face.
Tried to go back to Twitter for a bit... still a nope for me dawg. Coming back here to be more active again! Stay tuned!
MVP Award Notification
Today I was honored with the Microsoft MVP award in PowerShell. So thankful to the community and to those who have helped me in this journey! Excited to continue sharing content - if you’re in need of a PowerShell presenter for your user group, let me know! #mvpbuzz
Fuck me. Workaholics.
But it now means that there is a probability that she will be my representative…
Advent of Code - Day 2 ramblings... fun with loop labeling!
z-nerd.com/posts/2023/1...
#powershell #pwsh
Day One of #AdventOfCode is in the books... here are my ramblings z-nerd.com/posts/2023/1... #PowerShell #pwsh
Also, I’ll be trying to blog some of the challenges as well as posting my code here: github.com/theznerd/Adv...
Tis the season! Advent of Code 2023 is upon us (in one hour)! I’ll be attempting this year again in #PowerShell/#dotnet… made it to day 15 last year before the season got too busy.
If you’re unfamiliar - adventofcode.com is a set of 25 2-part coding challenges that will push you to the limit of fun
If you play around with Lists or Arrays in #PowerShell here is a handy cheat sheet for accessing objects from your Array/List. More info is available here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers... (thanks to Kevin Marquette for his thorough dive into arrays!). Apologies for the tiny text - link is above.
Microsoft to the board: Gif of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises saying “Do you feel in charge?”
This comment lol:
ChatGPT custom GPTs are great - super simple to put together and nice to bring in your own data/instructions!
Welcome Gary!
You don't have to memorize everything in PowerShell. It's a bit of a different language. There are only a few things you really should consider memorizing.
jordantheitguy.com/PowerShell/g...
Hey #PowerShell community - what sort of content or topics are you interested in learning about in “short format” blog posts? I’d like to generate some more relevant content for my blog and would like to know what is of interest from the community.
I don’t know what to think about the fact that 75” 4K LED TVs are selling for less than $600 brand new… like… is the tech really that cheap these days? Somehow I doubt it… data collection… has to be data collection…