One of my weightlifting coaches is a super interesting guy (all of my coaches are, but this project wasn’t their idea). While we were lifting the other night, he brought up the idea of making a bot using ChatGPT, and how that probably speaks louder on a GitHub project page than another powershell script. He’s right! I don’t know what I’d use one for, but the idea of cloud appliance that does something relevant to my life is neat. I also don’t have a ton of experience with AWS, since I spend my days (and the occasional night) mired in Azure.

Ok, you’ve got your website moved over to GitHub pages, and now you need to move your content from Wordpress over to GitHub Pages. If you are using this as a personal blog, it seems very reasonable to need to include attachments, pictures, etc. Thankfully, there is a super straightforward way to sort that out! When you first migrate your site over to GitHub you may notice that your images and media are still working. Thats because its still linking to your old webhost!

After paying another too-high hosting bill, I heard a dear friend mention that he had moved his sites to AWS to minimize cost. I’ve hosted my site for ~12 years as a full-fledged Wordpress install, and while that has been ok, it definitely is overkill. I have used various methods to post, including blogging software that has gone EOL, and engines that convert markdown to wordpress. All of them left something to be desired. I have been writing nearly everything at work in markdown, from meeting notes, to release notes, to project plans, and it seems like MD is here to stay. Time to move, now that I have 11 months of hosting to do it! GitHub Pages is free, and I get to use markdown. Lets do it!

I have struggled with basic programming concepts in my journey towards understanding Powershell, and the term “Object Oriented Programming” has only recently begun to coalesce a reasonable definition in my head. I’ve largely used PoSH for reporting and functionality in my life, and being able to use PSCustomObject has been a roadblock that I have only begun to overcome.

I recently interviewed for a position with a company that was very much an “individual contributor” role. I have used powershell for loads of things throughout my life but was never testing in real time, so it was interesting and fun to have it be part of my interview. A lot of “classically training” coders start out with intense math as part of their educational core, so during this interview, I learned about % as the remainder function and elseif. I posted it over on my GitHub!

The Charm City Strongwoman competition is scheduled to take place on June 12, 2022, sponsored by Five X3, the best little gym in Baltimore. I’ve been lifting there for about 6 years, and while its been a blast, the best part has been helping run (and coach, in a weird, informal way) the Strongwoman competition. This year we’re lifting a car!

Lots of people are working from home now, pandemic-induced and otherwise. I did it from 2015-2018, and I can say that its a mixed bag. I don’t like the encroachment on my personal space, I don’t like the lack of social interaction.

After all my years in the “biz”, I struggled intensely to add a Windows CA to an ubuntu box today. Just goes to show you, no matter how long you’ve been doing this, or how good you are, you know nothing and its frustration all the way down!

Sometimes, you’d like to check if a particular user (like a local admin) is logged in, before you run your script. Here is that code:

Probably as long as I’ve been aware of it, I’ve struggled with productivity. It is my natural workflow to be spread-too-thin-across-too-many-projects, and while I can certainly identity that there is a problem (and they tell me the first step is admitting it), I’ve engaged in a life-long battle to defeat it.