I love using the NerdBank.GitVersioning CLI tool nbgv. It completely removes the need to think about an aspect of a
project that doesn't add any value to your customers. But today I realized I understood the first three parts of the
version produced by nbgv, but the fourth "revision" component was not obvious. Turns out it is a uint16 value of the
first two bytes of the commit id!
I added a subtle "Now playing" text to the footer of this site which represents the first result in the response from the user.getRecentTracks method on the Last.FM API. The data is updated every few seconds with a little bit of JavaScript by polling a small Pode web service running in my home lab.
A while back I was helping a co-worker with a project where the customer needed to automate a lot of minor Windows configuration steps on some Windows IoT server appliances. One of the tasks was to make it possible to disable Windows Firewall, because even an administrator was greeted with the message "For your security, some settings are managed by your system administrator" and the option to change firewall settings was disabled.
I recently came across a couple of blog posts on image comparison algorithms shared by Dr. Neal Krawetz. One of them, titled "Kind Of Like That", describes the "dHash" algorithm which generates a perceptual hash based on gradients in the image. With more than 200k family photos to wrangle, I wrote up a PowerShell implementation to find similar images and it works surprisingly well!
Back in 2021 I wrote a module called Poshover for sending push notifications with Pushover.net. This week I decided to use that module as a reference during my PowerShell + DevOps Summit workshop in a few weeks. I never liked the name, so I renamed it to PSPushover and set it up in a new repository.