James Brundage | MVP

Jack of all Trades, Master of PowerShell. Prolific Programmer Microsoft MVP in Azure / PowerShell https://mrpowershell.com/ https://github.com/StartAutomating https://github.com/PowerShellWeb NB, Neurodivergent, Nerdy, Newsjunkie. Ask me anything.

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Straight to the Point

How Hormuz Strait Closure Proves the Point

May 12·3 min read·461 words

Freeform Functions

We all yearn for freedom. We want to be free from tyranny. We want to be free to live. We want to be free to do things we enjoy. Some of us yearn to be free of PowerShell's parameter structure.

May 11·1 min read·42 words

PowerShell Profiles

I've been using PowerShell for a pretty long time, and I have some thoughts on profiles. Let's share some of what I think makes a good profile and a bad profile. The profiles are the script run when a…

May 10·1 min read·56 words

Splatting the GitHub CLI

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but I may be bad at it. But let's try to make a quick post about a little daily PowerShell timesaver: splatting the GitHub CLI. I'm going to show you how you can save t…

May 10·1 min read·52 words

The Aral Sea

A Study in Side-Effects.

Apr 18·3 min read·463 words

Green Is Good

An Argument for Environment Awareness

Apr 12·6 min read·1193 words

The Keyboard Wars

Prompts Should Not Be Used To Kill

Apr 1·1 min read·10 words

Nothing is Normal

Normal is an individual illusion

Mar 29·1 min read·8 words

Off topic

Off topic, off brand, off print

Mar 28·1 min read·8 words

Static Sites are Simple

Static Sites are simple. They're just files, and mostly text. Here's a PowerShell one-liner to make a really simple static site: We make static sites with whatever language we want, and we can publish…

Feb 24·1 min read·43 words

The PowerShell Wiggum Loop

One of the best things about PowerShell is that you can interactively explore anything. Long before the Wiggum Loop was a thing, PowerShell let you explore interactively with prompting. Here's how you…

Feb 1·1 min read·71 words

Hello World

I'm James, and the code above is Hello World in PowerShell. Long ago, I worked on the PowerShell team and helped build a really beautiful and interesting scripting language. In the past couple of deca…

Jan 27·1 min read·62 words