Procrastinating is too long a word

DNS Hell...

Photo by Vladislav Klapin / Unsplash When running self-hosted web based services at home, there is the reality that access to these services (at least some of the time) will be from the outside and some of the time (probably most of the time) from the inside. This means addressing requires

Missed a dot

There is one operation I find myself doing a lot, and that the built in shorthand is a bit 'broken'. The taskWorking with objects means working with their properties / fields, and Select-Object -ExpandProperty <Property> is the operation I find using again and again and again. There is a

On demand access

Up until a few weeks ago, not only I was the only person to use the PowerShell scripting environment I concocted. These were all running on systems I had full control over and I managed. Recently I've come up with a project at work where I thought the work already

Changing my approach

...for the blog, that is. I'm actually quite proud with the road taken with the somewhat modular scripting tool box of mine, but I'm also aware it's not for everyone. I tend to over-complicate things to suite my specific needs, and while things make sense to me, they will not

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Working (with) it

It's been a while since I had the muse to write here, but this has indeed been fruitful. Since creating the package concept, using my scripting environment truly became comfortable. I've started using it, modifying my docker helper commands a bit more, adding some additional concepts, and just plain using

Would you like me to pack that for you?

Looking at the work that I've been doing, things were looking really messy. I needed a way to cleanup, and I needed it to make sense and scale onwards. Keeping everything in a single directory wasn't really working, and just allowing everything to load wasn't working either. Some systems had

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Smoothing rough edges

I've been busy, and lost my writing 'mojo' for a while, but it's time to update what's going on with this experience. I LOVE IT!I truly do. I think I've converted all of my little utility scripts to PowerShell and things are working rather smooth. In the past couple

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Mending Broken Windows

In my previous post I went through my thought process about creating this self-sufficient script that can be invoked as a one-liner. Although my focus was to create an environment focused on Linux, it looks to me that there is no reason this same setup should work on my Windows

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The Profile and Setting It Up

iwr https://lksz.me/pwsz | iexSetting up should always be this easy - read the article below for all the detailsThis one took my some time to complete. Much more than I thought it will. But I gotta say, I'm rather proud of this one. The ProblemThe problems I wanted

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Editing with Ease

If it wasn't clear until now, I'm a tinkerer. If it's software, and there is a way to tweak software, I'm going to try it out. Otherwise, this whole adventure seems mute - I mean, why try something that isn't 'the norm'? My previous posts established the challenge, and initial

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A Case of Sensitivity

Unlike the Windows world, Linux is very sensitive about cAsE. UPDATE July 17th 2020: Working on my next section, I had to make some changed, Reload-MyAliases mentioned here in the post has been renamed to Reload-MyScripts. While I am not modifying this post, I have updated the relevant code section

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Keeping track of everything

This is an excursion about housekeeping of code. My only professional experience with source code versioning control was back in 2000-2001 when I worked as software developer, and that was Visual Source Safe. Hated that tool, but loved the concept, and even after shifting to a different career path I've

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Functions vs Scripts and Profiles

I've made the change. Until now, I was declaring (here in the blog), prepping the grounds, and I've now set PowerShell as my default shell for my main Linux server, an Arch Linux that is driving my home media, NAS and other cloud services (including this blog). I've already hit

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What I'm consciously loosing... or am I?

With this decision to switch to PowerShell in Linux, I'm starting at a loss. I've been using zsh as my shell for a while now, and what made it even more compelling was the discovery of zinit, a plugin framework for zsh that is (way beyond) awesome. Zsh as a

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Installing PowerShell in Linux

I do not intend to replicate instructions written well elsewhere, and Microsoft already documented the installation process very well. I will however share my experience. I use 2 flavors of Linux: Arch Linux and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. My Ubuntu installation start out as Desktop, even if I need it

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Starting?! (again...)

First post in this blog