Griff Barker

Don't misunderstand me -- I strongly dislike Windows as an OS, particularly in more recent years. I'm just saying that not everyone can "just pick *nix tooling". Unfortunately real life has more facets and considerations than a perfect world.

And an age range of end users who make up a large portion of the workforce are most familiar with Windows endpoints.

So then you need a toolkit to manage fleets of those devices at scale. I'm unaware of any major *nix-based tooling that excels at enterprise Windows fleet management.

Not every industry in existence has industry standard software/systems that are always available natively on/as *nix systems. Plenty of industries out there where all the industry standards run specifically on Windows.

I've cared about jQuery in the sense that I've had to care about the many vulnerabilities to it that existed in some previous envs I was administering, but beyond that...

Unless the environment you are required to use is a Windows environment.

It is wild to me how so many people on the internet assume that 100% of people have free reign over choosing what their environment/tooling/pipeline is made up of.

This is the real truth of it, and at this point, I'm convinced all operating systems suck. Doesn't mean there aren't merits to them all, or that they aren't changing all the time, but in general I have a variety of issues with every OS I've used.

LLMs seem to often use en/em dashes (U+2013/U+2014) instead of hyphens (U+002D) and smart quotes (U+201C/U+201D) instead of standard double quotes (U+022).

my name is griff and i support this crash out

Does Finder take less than 10 seconds to load? Because if so, I'll take it. File Explorer (at least in Windows 11 these days) is an abysmal experience.

Yep! Sure can.

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I have seen some models do a decent job generating the code for Mermaid diagrams. I've had terrible results in LLM-produced rendered diagrams.

No diagram is better than a wrong or difficult to read diagram, IMO.

Oh, nice! I'll have to give this a shot. I really like Ghostty but this looks sweet and well worth a try. Thanks for the share!

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ICYMI, there's a discussion right now about #PowerShell releases being so far behind the .NET runtime that we are unable to fully migrate to .NET 10 in all of our products at Devolutions. PowerShell 7.6 is lagging behind by *several months*: github.com/PowerShell/P...

One thing Bluesky has reminded me of is that some people are waaaaay too emphatic about fairly small things.

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The Microsoft Graph command line authentication experience result has been rough as of late.

You ever go on a documentation tear? Cathartic. Flagging docs needing retired. Updating others. Creating new ones.

```powershell
icm $servername { commands }

# or

enter-pssession $servername
```

Get me like 99% of what I need.

Server Core + PSRemoting is pretty decent! If I have to build a Windows server, I'm doing it without the DE if I can avoid it. And if I need to connect to any Windows server ever, I avoid having to RDP if I can.

The number of times I've run up against this in scripts or modules provided by vendors is frustrating.

In 2026 the fact that this post is able to be made is crazy.

Yeah, absolutely fair enough! Unfortunate attribute of the game of YouTube it seems. I dig the shorter, condensed, but not "short form content" approach.

Love me some LowLevelTV!

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The new podcast episode with Don was a great listen, check it out!

And looking forward to PowerShell Wednesday, too!