Chris Hunt

Serilog works great with OpenTelemetry!

Is there anything that makes building Azure Policy Definitions less challenging and painful than giving yourself a root canal?

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Markdown tabs are separate and explicit. The default is still plain text.

I'm pretty sure the wheel will better meet my needs if I reinvent it. Has anyone even validated the assumptions that round is optimal? Feels like a sunk cost fallacy to me. Do you believe that baby sitting in dirty bath water is actually getting clean? Throw it all out.

The worst part about remote work is you can't take a former coworker out for some drink. I'm pretty sure Lifetime would pay for a script of my last couple of years and all I can say is focus on what You need. Virtually here if I can help.

I've updated my profile image for the first time in years. My daughter has started taking art commissions and she did this avatar for me and included my spirit animal the digital phoenix.
www.instagram.com/ellah.doesart/

Where is the truth database?

Think Wikipedia but as a structured dataset that I can query. No AI, just a constantly audited, and debated, source of truth.

I finally got around to reading this post from David Haney on LLMs. It's a clear and honest explanation of how LLMs are not Intelligence by any measure and are only getting dumber.
www.davidhaney.io/llms-will-no...

An AI generated mobile app screen. Buttons at the bottom have dots similar to the braille alphabet for N and P.

Did CoPilot just suggest I add braille labels to a mobile app UI? That is some next level a11y.

Doing some important monitoring and alerting work.

Yeah, just terminal. Think a type format for various AZ cmdlets that return code - runbooks, function apps, json, yaml...

Not just Pwsh highlighting. Basically bat but not as an exe which will be blocked on my machine. Kind of surprised @patriksvensson.se hasn't included it in Spectre.Console.

Is there a native syntax highlighting module for #powershell? Not an exe or a python/node module. I just want to color code a given property in the terminal.

I would like to have this as well.

I don't know why they called it "Overflow AI" and not "Rubber Duck".

I've used HTML Agility Pack in Pwsh to scrape Confluence pages before. I might be able to dig up an example if you need.

I don't know. Currently I'm interested in defining a target set of skills/knowledge that isn't specific to a language or vendor certification. I am looking for examples of skills evaluations to see if they align with my assumptions. It's only for a few people so the "platform" could just be paper.

It looks great, but I'm not yet sure if I'm going to be able to use an external service for official training. I'll definitely point folks to it, though.

I'm really interested in some way to validate basic computer fundamentals that are platform agnostic and would lead into shell development and cloud automation, etc. Not Excel macro certification, not Azure specific, and not professional developer testing.

Hey #powershell folks, I'm looking for a simple skills check site/service. I'm working on a training program and don't really want to write tests. Surely this already exists.

Nothing comes to mind. I feel like I've used a WinDbg library to rip through dumps before but I have no reference to offer.

I have done it with raw Spectre and it wasn't fun. I also don't have a copy of that code to use as a starting point. PowerShellRun is working well. I have a function to scan a directory of .md files for the links and pipe them into Invoke-PSRunSelector. Quick bookmark launcher built from my notes.

Is it ok to use 3rd party modules?

PowerShellRun is a launcher but its fuzzy selector is also accessible. Compared to fzf, it's designed to be easier to build tools in PowerShell.

mdgrs.hashnode.dev/using-powers...

That looks like exactly what I need. Very nice!

GitHub - hamvocke/lnks: Browser bookmarks for your command line Browser bookmarks for your command line. Contribute to hamvocke/lnks development by creating an account on GitHub.

Does anyone have any idea or guidance on reproducing this UX in pure #Powershell w/o using fzf? I have the fuzzy string logic, but not the dynamic list picker. An ArgumentCompleter doesn't quite do the job.
github.com/hamvocke/lnks

Netflix needs to just have a feature to auto play all of the 30s previews I'm going to scroll through for 2 hours without ever actually watching a full show. Netflix Shorts.

X509 certificates are trying to kill me today.

It's also available as a dotnet tool which can be useful for build pipelines.

On the public image? I recall reading GitHub wouldn't because of some dependency issue. I use the PowerShell container images to specify a version.
github.com/cdhunt/httpu...