Using AI Without Losing Your Mind
Everyone talks about what AI can do. Nobody talks about what it costs you. A practical look at context switching, the vampiric effect, and how I keep agents on my terms.
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PowerShell Summit 2026: Key Insights and Highlights
Three talks, two major releases, one domain bought live on stage - here’s what happened at PowerShell Summit 2026 and what stayed with me.
Markdown Madness: Static Sites for Fun & Profit
You already write Markdown. Learn how to turn it into a blog, polished docs site, personal resume, or link-in-bio page with a whirlwind tour of static site generators — Jekyll, MkDocs, Hugo, Docusaurus, and more.
From Burnout To Built-To-Last: The Open Source Org Advantage
Passion doesn’t scale. Learn how running your open source project as an organization prevents burnout, spreads responsibility, and unlocks a treasure chest of free tools and services for FOSS projects.
Stop Hand-Rolling Chocolate: Automating Chocolatey with psake
Your Chocolatey package pipeline shouldn’t live in someone’s head. Learn how to automate Chocolatey packaging with psake — declared tasks, Pester tests, and CI/CD that runs identically locally and in GitHub Actions.
The System AI Made Me Do It
I volunteered to moderate a subreddit and immediately built tooling instead. This post walks through how Devvit endpoint restrictions forced a pivot from Claude to Gemini, and how that constraint led to a better, free workflow for turning YouTube playlists into configurable AI-assisted Reddit posts.
From Terminal to TRMNL: A PowerShell Dashboard Journey
It’s surprisingly easy to build your own custom dashboard with TRMNL, webhooks, and a bit of PowerShell. I used it to send dynamic data (like quotes and images) to an old device—no polling needed, just a simple POST and some fun templating.
¿No Habla Inglés?: PowerShell Localization in Practice
PowerShell is global, but not everyone works in English. Let’s look at how localization works, how you can add it to your modules, and how to make it easy for your community to contribute translations
RaC: Resume as Code
Create and manage your resume with JSON Resume. Learn schema basics, hosting, themes, and deployment for easy, professional updates.
Beyond Regex: Advanced PowerShell Code Analysis with ASTs
In this post I’ll be walking through an example of a (silly) request you might see at work and show you how you can leverage AST’s to update your codebase.
Sharing Your Custom PSScriptAnalyzer Rules
Learn how using a simple “proxy” module, will allow you to use custom PSScriptAnalyzer rules in all your repositories!
How to Use Obsidian for ADHD: Productivity System with PowerShell
Alleviating my ADHD headaches with Obsidian. Periodic Notes and Templater extensions save the day by reminding me of the next step towards my larger goals.
The Power of Devcontainers
Discover how development containers simplify project setup and empower contributors. Learn devcontainer.json configuration, cross-language support, and how devcontainers solve environment barriers.
New Year, New Me - 2024
A big change this year. No longer ‘Señor Systems Engineer at Meta’. Now I’m a Staff Software Engineer at Tesla.
Starship Transient Prompt: What It Is & How to Set It Up in PowerShell
A quick overview on how I use Starship to customize my prompt.
Stucco
In this presentation I go over how to start using Stucco. If you follow along in your own termial, you’ll be ready to publish to the gallery!
PowerShell Chef Cookbook
Manage PowerShell at enterprise scale with Meta’s Chef cookbook. Learn system profile management, module deployment, telemetry control, and enterprise configuration automation.
PowerShell Profile Setup Guide: Optimization & Starship Integration
In this third post of the series I go over my PowerShell profile.
WezTerm Config Guide: Complete Lua Setup with Examples
In this second post of the series I go over my WezTerm config an explain each of my settings and some lessons learned.
Terminals, Shells, and Prompts: Complete Beginner's Guide
Part one of brief walk through on how terminals, shells, and prompts interact. In later posts I will go over my particular settings, but this lays the foundation.
Terminals, Shells, and Prompts
A comprehensive series exploring how terminals, shells, and prompts work together, with practical guides for WezTerm configuration, PowerShell profiles, and Starship prompt customization.
Efficient Disasters: Remove-Item In the Pipeline
I walk through my most painful mistake of 2022. Using Remove-Item in a Pipeline can be efficient, but it can also be a disaster.
Force Reinstalling Many Choco Packages
Learn how to force reinstall Chocolatey packages using PowerShell and packages.config. Complete walkthrough with XML generation script for handling partially removed packages.
Using Stucco to Create Your PowerShell Module
Learn why Stucco is such a powerfull module template. Includes a walk through from creating a module to publishing to the PowerShell Gallery!
Maintenance Mode - Chocolatey Fest 2018
Watch Gilbert’s Chocolatey Fest 2018 talk on maintenance mode at scale. Learn how Facebook’s IT team uses Chef to schedule service interruptions without impacting business operations.
Syncing your YouTube Playlist to Readwise Reader
Create an automated pipeline from YouTube playlists to Readwise using Pipedream. Learn to sync videos, enable highlighting, and integrate with your note-taking workflow seamlessly.
Add an Icon to Your PowerShell Module
Add professional icons to your PowerShell modules. Complete guide to finding Creative Commons images, uploading to GitHub, and configuring module metadata with IconUri.
First Podcast!
Gilbert’s first podcast appearance on the PowerShell Podcast. Listen to insights on PowerShell community, development practices, and speaker experiences with hosts Andrew and Jordan.
Controlling a Cheap "Neon" LED, Pt 2
Part 2 of turning a cheap LED light and making it smart. We use MQTT, HomeAssistant, and PowerShell!
Controlling a Cheap "Neon" LED, Pt 1
A left over LED and a few spare parts turns into a fun and potential useful project.
Synchronizing AD Group Members to Unix Attributes
Synchronize Unix group members with Active Directory groups using PowerShell. Complete code example to manage Unix attributes, automate user provisioning, and maintain audit compliance.
Automatically Update Workergroup for Reboot Policies
A simple script to keep XenApp servers in reboot workergroups.
Locating Empty Citrix Worker Groups
Get a quick count of Citrix workergrop app/server counts.
CIDR Calculator for Alfred
Create a CIDR calculator for Alfred app. Complete guide to building a quick subnet calculator workflow using whatmask CLI, Alfred Powerpack, and PHP for instant network calculations.