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Events are Easy

Events are easy. Events let you know when something happened, and respond to it if you choose. Events are incredibly useful.

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Mastering Markdown

I've loved Markdown since the day it was a Daring Fireball post. It's a simple rich text format that gets the job done, and it's used everywhere. Markdown is supported out of the box on PowerShell 6+, using the ConvertFrom-Markdown command.

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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.

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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 PowerShell launched. Any user can have a profile, and all users can have a profile.

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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 typing and time with the GitHub CLI.

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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 them about anywhere for free.

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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 can embody the spirit of Ralph Wiggum and find your way around PowerShell. All parts of the PowerShell Wiggum Loop are as old as PowerShell itself. To be fair, the Simpsons did it first (1989).

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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 decades I've been continuing to explore and grow the capabilities of the language, and have beamed with pride as more and more people have been inspired.

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