@danskingdom.com
Experienced software developer & IC in SK, Canada. Dual MS MVP. FOSS creator, maintainer, & contributor. Loves C#, .NET, PowerShell, AutoHotkey, DevOps. Automate Everything! Shares tech-related posts & memes. Blog & socials at https://blog.danskingdom.com
Published a new module called AvaloniaUIShell, (the world's first?) cross-platform desktop GUI framework for PowerShell.
github.com/mdgrs-mei/Av...
It's using the same mechanism as WinUIShell and takes care of all threading and non-blocking UI operations.
#PowerShell
You should come work with me.
Do you help coworkers remotely, asking them to run terminal commands? Or maybe you just want to save the output of your own commands for later? Here's a few ways to do that.
blog.danskingdom.com/Easily-captu...
I have wrapped my VsDevShell PowerShell module into an agent skill, such that AI agents can automatically enter a Visual Studio developer shell on-demand for tools like "msbuild" or "signtool": skills.sh/awakecoding/...
Your PowerShell is probably full of stale Az modules.
I just fixed that.
You can now uninstall and clean up all Az modules in one go! Plus there’s a new Uninstall-All cmdlet that removes a stack of Microsoft modules safely.
Stop fighting version conflicts 🤩
Get it 👉 uninstall-graph.meri...
At work we need to publish a PowerShell module but didn't want to deal with PSGallery tokens and more permissions we need to audit over time. I've tried out GitHub Container/OCI and Nuget feeds as well as Azure Artifacts. github.com/jborean93/Po...
TLDR: Use Azure Artifacts.
If you manage #Kubernetes using kubectl, you should definitely use kubecolor. I wrote a quick blog showing how to get it installed and set up in 30 seconds.
blog.danskingdom.com/Colour-your-...
🚀🔥 The new PowerShell Universal Developer Edition unlocks ALL features for $0, when running on your developer workstation! Build, test, experiment freely — no limits, no compromises. This is the real deal!
🔗 devolutions.net/blog/2026/02...
"In this room, we deliver success, we don’t whine.
Look, I’m not confused, I know you walk through fields of shit every day.
Your job is to find the rose petals."
www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02...
Why The "10x Engineer" Is A Dangerous Myth | with Charity Majors 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW
Watch: youtu.be/aDCOuZ80lDQ
The successor settings in GitHub showing Jpomfret as the successor
Its not the most awesome thing to think about but it will take only a moment to do and may save your loved ones some pain.
In GitHub under Account settings, you can set your successor who will be able to access your account if you are not able to
github.com/settings/admin
text reads: Azure Playwright Testing Service (Preview): Run Playwright Tests on Cloud Browsers announcement.learn ( ) ;Read the blog
🎭⚡ Playwright tests… but in the cloud.
No infra. No setup drama. Just hit run and watch your UI + API tests fly on cloud‑hosted browsers.
Spin up a workspace, plug in your project, hit go in #VisualStudio or #VSCode, and boom—cloud‑powered testing. 👉 buff.ly/GYY9fDK
A nice reinforcement that AI tools are an accelerator and the quality of the code they generate depends on the person using them. The human in the loop still very much matters. Competent engineers can use AI tools to move faster without generating slop.
Screenshot of the MS Teams "Join Meeting" prompt, showing how many other people are currently in the meeting. It allows you to see how many people are in the meeting before joining the meeting yourself.
I appreciate that MS #Teams shows how many people have already joined the meeting before I join. It allows me to avoid joining when there's only 1 other person and having to make small talk until others join on days when I'm not feeling chatty.
Sample usage of the pwshSpectreConsole module in PowerShell
It takes very little effort to incorporate the pwshSpectreConsole module into your #PowerShell daily routine.
TIL after years of using Git: git archive
Creates clean zip snapshots of your repo without:
🚫 node_modules
🚫 virtual environments
🚫 .git metadata
My 180MB folder → 14MB. Perfect for uploading codebases to ChatGPT/Claude.
youtu.be/WaZkdLRZubM
After procrastinating for 2 years, my blog finally supports dark mode. GitHub Copilot was a big help. I also cut the ads waaaaaaay down. Now I can focus on creating content again.
blog.danskingdom.com
Ah, yeah, we're just using Azure DevOps pipelines for our CI/CD with a Windows runner. You could potentially host Windows containers in your k8s, but that will require provisioning some Windows nodes. Not ideal, but a potential compromise.
To clarify, the whole process is automated using Azure DevOps pipelines. The scripts just make use of SSDT. Devs can also generate scripts locally using Visual Studio too if needed.
We’ve been using a .sqlproj project for our flagship product for ~15 years. We just use the SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) with Visual Studio to generate our migration scripts. I’ve been meaning to make a video on it for ~8 years now, but keep procrastinating 😅
I’m looking forward to SDK style too
The GitHub Copilot SDK is here 🙌
You can take the same Copilot agentic core that powers GitHub Copilot CLI and embed it in any application, with just a few lines of code.
github.com/github/copil...
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I'm really digging the #Copilot CLI lately for troubleshooting issues in the terminal. It helped me solve a couple docker build/run issues today.
Install it on Windows with `winget install GitHub.Copilot`, then type `copilot` to launch it and you're off 🚀
github.com/features/cop...
Hey #PowerShell people:
Join us tomorrow night for a special presentation about sandboxed PowerShell in the browser:
www.meetup.com/research-tri...
We'll be doing an interactive show and tell about #Turtle 🐢 and other #Reptiles 🦎, and talking about #edutech.
Be there or be 🐢 square!
I'm surprised how many devs don't use a #markdown linter. Nearly every time I open someone's .md, my linter has squiggles everywhere. It usually still renders correctly though, so does it really matter? Debating just uninstalling my linter. Do you lint?
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
A screenshot of a post from the PC master race subreddit, saying, today I learned this is a feature in windows 11. They include a picture of Settings > System > Advanced, with a circle around the end task option
Did you know Windows 11 has an option to end tasks right from the taskbar? 👀
So you don't need to open task manager - you can just right click the app and end it from there
There seems to be an ongoing supply chain attack or suspicious activity on NuGet .org, where a user called darklord is trying to gain legitimacy or something by sending thousands of become owner of their packages requests, don't accept, report to @nuget.org
#dotnet #nuget
Awesome. I hope this becomes standard across all devices in the near future (PCs, tablets, phones, TVs, etc.). It used to be so easy to just use an audio splitter back in the days when everything was wired.
Visual Studio extension to work with the .github folder and manage GitHub and CoPilot files including integration with awesome-copliot repo for templates, by Mads Kristensen: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
