Adding my own 2¢ to the PowerShell & Technology Communities
It’s now a personal mission to backup everything in my home lab. Today I discuss how backing up my Pi-Hole using PowerShell.
In this post I explain how I move a few of my favorite legacy PowerShell ISE snippets to Visual Studio Code.
Saving docker volumes was more challenging that I initially thought, but thankfully PowerShell was there to help again.
theTVDb updated their API and I had to rewrite some code but neglected to post. I’m making up for that now.
Building a PowerShell module should not be too hard. In fact, on the surface it’s pretty simple. Collect a bunch of functions, classes, enumerations, (whatever else you want), bundle them together and provide a wrapper in the form of a PSD1/PSM file. Building a module should be straightforward – and it is – except when you make dumb mistakes. Don’t make my mistakes.
I’m trying to get better about using the new versions of PowerShell (7.x) instead of Windows PowerShell (5.x), but I find that I forget to install it on some machines. To make that easier, I wrote myself a script (in PowerShell) to install PowerShell. I know – don’t judge me. This is the script. Sadly, … Read more
Building a PowerShell Module from scratch is a daunting task, but I’ll try to describe how I started this as a solo endeavor.
In learning about PowerShell and Web API’s, I figured I would start with something fun and easy.
Let’s forget all about my previous step 3. For the sake of argument, step 3 is dead, long live step 3.1! Any script should be a living, breathing document which gets updated as needed. In this case, it was needed. Why would I burn such a good script to the ground? Well, to be blunt, I’ve found a better way to do this, with better ultimate performance.
If you need a refresher on the previous steps, I have Step 1 for Hyper-V, Step 1 for VMware, and Step 2.
In Part 1 of trying to tame my photos, I tried to wrangle my horribly organized photo library. My organization skills were lacking, like many, when it comes to photos. We take them, we import them or save them and then we… forget about them. That’s a problem when I’m trying to handle large amounts of them (22.8 GB in 13,316 files) and organize them in ways that seem sensible. To use this we leverage the metadata tags that describe the date and time the photo was taken.