Matt Zaske
@mattzaske.com
(he/him)
Fiddles with Home Assistant, 3D printing, APIs, saws, and other hazards ⚠️
Developer/Automation Evangelist and Tech Grief Counselor
Past president of a community theatre 🎭 and active speaker at tech conferences such as MMSMOA
Fiddles with Home Assistant, 3D printing, APIs, saws, and other hazards ⚠️
Developer/Automation Evangelist and Tech Grief Counselor
Past president of a community theatre 🎭 and active speaker at tech conferences such as MMSMOA
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In this episode, I walk through Git concepts using admin language, not developer jargon, and show how commits and rollback actually work in a way that reduces risk instead of adding complexity.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/WE1mHpsruWg
#intune #github #powershell
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/WE1mHpsruWg
#intune #github #powershell
GitHub for Intune Admins Part 3: Making Safe Script Changes and Rolling Them Back
YouTube video by Get Rubix
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 7:38 PM
In this episode, I walk through Git concepts using admin language, not developer jargon, and show how commits and rollback actually work in a way that reduces risk instead of adding complexity.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/WE1mHpsruWg
#intune #github #powershell
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/WE1mHpsruWg
#intune #github #powershell
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💡 Here's a surprising travel hack that you might not have heard: if you can't connect to the captive portal for airplane or hotel WiFi, if the page simply won't load, just open your browser and visit https://neverssl.com. It always gets things moving! 🛜🛫
January 29, 2026 at 2:56 AM
💡 Here's a surprising travel hack that you might not have heard: if you can't connect to the captive portal for airplane or hotel WiFi, if the page simply won't load, just open your browser and visit https://neverssl.com. It always gets things moving! 🛜🛫
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Oftentimes I’m asked by non-Minnesotans how we stand living with our harsh winters in Minnesota.
I hope the country has seen over this past month that Minnesotans, while generally reserved by nature, generate a warmth of community.
It’s that simple.
I hope the country has seen over this past month that Minnesotans, while generally reserved by nature, generate a warmth of community.
It’s that simple.
January 28, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Oftentimes I’m asked by non-Minnesotans how we stand living with our harsh winters in Minnesota.
I hope the country has seen over this past month that Minnesotans, while generally reserved by nature, generate a warmth of community.
It’s that simple.
I hope the country has seen over this past month that Minnesotans, while generally reserved by nature, generate a warmth of community.
It’s that simple.
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Last week, my office released the following consumer alert on how Minnesotans can protect their digital privacy from DHS agents.
I urge all Minnesotans to take steps to protect themselves online from the federal government’s overreach and lawlessness.
I urge all Minnesotans to take steps to protect themselves online from the federal government’s overreach and lawlessness.
January 28, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Last week, my office released the following consumer alert on how Minnesotans can protect their digital privacy from DHS agents.
I urge all Minnesotans to take steps to protect themselves online from the federal government’s overreach and lawlessness.
I urge all Minnesotans to take steps to protect themselves online from the federal government’s overreach and lawlessness.
There's a whole lotta really bad stuff happening right now, but one thing I personally look forward to is sharing info at and being part of an outstanding endpoint management community at the @mmsmoa.bsky.social event coming up in May. #mmsmoa
January 26, 2026 at 11:32 PM
There's a whole lotta really bad stuff happening right now, but one thing I personally look forward to is sharing info at and being part of an outstanding endpoint management community at the @mmsmoa.bsky.social event coming up in May. #mmsmoa
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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Signal will never message you like this.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Signal will never message you like this.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
Steve Simon is an absolute gem. Thank you for standing up to this incessant bullshit.
Secretary of State Steve Simon’s statement on the outrageous request from the US Attorney General www.sos.mn.gov/about-the-of...
January 25, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Steve Simon is an absolute gem. Thank you for standing up to this incessant bullshit.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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What really sets #PSHSummit26 apart isn’t just the sessions.
It’s the people.
Honest conversations, shared wins (and challenges), and a community that actually shows up for each other. That’s what makes the experience last.
🎟️ Tickets available
🔗 powershellsummit.org
It’s the people.
Honest conversations, shared wins (and challenges), and a community that actually shows up for each other. That’s what makes the experience last.
🎟️ Tickets available
🔗 powershellsummit.org
Home | PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit
PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the gathering of PowerShell and DevOps professionals and enthusiasts. Join us for North America's only PowerShell Conference.
www.powershellsummit.org
January 20, 2026 at 1:06 AM
What really sets #PSHSummit26 apart isn’t just the sessions.
It’s the people.
Honest conversations, shared wins (and challenges), and a community that actually shows up for each other. That’s what makes the experience last.
🎟️ Tickets available
🔗 powershellsummit.org
It’s the people.
Honest conversations, shared wins (and challenges), and a community that actually shows up for each other. That’s what makes the experience last.
🎟️ Tickets available
🔗 powershellsummit.org
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Hi. MN getting a lot of attention right now.
Do NOT underestimate weather’s potential to absolutely BREAK people here, especially new-to-towners.
When it snows hard, drops to way below zero, everything frozen, it can make you stop functioning. Horrify and immobilize you. Changes EVERYTHING.
Do NOT underestimate weather’s potential to absolutely BREAK people here, especially new-to-towners.
When it snows hard, drops to way below zero, everything frozen, it can make you stop functioning. Horrify and immobilize you. Changes EVERYTHING.
As of late morning, snow was falling in the Red River Valley with northerly winds gusting to more than 40 mph. Weather stations were reporting near-zero visibility at times.
Blizzard conditions cause highway closures in Red River Valley
State transportation officials in Minnesota and North Dakota closed highways in the Red River Valley on Sunday, as fresh snow and gusty winds combined to create blizzard conditions across the region.
www.mprnews.org
January 18, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Hi. MN getting a lot of attention right now.
Do NOT underestimate weather’s potential to absolutely BREAK people here, especially new-to-towners.
When it snows hard, drops to way below zero, everything frozen, it can make you stop functioning. Horrify and immobilize you. Changes EVERYTHING.
Do NOT underestimate weather’s potential to absolutely BREAK people here, especially new-to-towners.
When it snows hard, drops to way below zero, everything frozen, it can make you stop functioning. Horrify and immobilize you. Changes EVERYTHING.
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Minnesotans: The MN National Guard is on standby and distinguishable by high-visibility reflective vests. This is how Guard members are identified vs federal agents, who do not wear these vests. Knowing the difference matters for public safety.
Please share.
Source: Minnesota National Guard
Please share.
Source: Minnesota National Guard
January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Minnesotans: The MN National Guard is on standby and distinguishable by high-visibility reflective vests. This is how Guard members are identified vs federal agents, who do not wear these vests. Knowing the difference matters for public safety.
Please share.
Source: Minnesota National Guard
Please share.
Source: Minnesota National Guard
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Everyone welcome
Mazeppa, MN
Mazeppa, MN
January 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Everyone welcome
Mazeppa, MN
Mazeppa, MN
Not a "hometown river" per se, but I grew up almost literally on the banks of the Minnesota River (in the "river bottom"). On the portion of land not ceded (the reservation) in the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, July 23, 1851, but later taken (~1863) following the US-Dakota war.
RT with your hometown river:
I can sing mine! 🎶On the banks of the Red Cedar...🎶
I can sing mine! 🎶On the banks of the Red Cedar...🎶
It may not be a river per se, but the Erie Canal. My hometown is one of the small towns that grew up around the canal in the 1800s and I used to walk along the canal when my parents lived in their old house.
January 12, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Not a "hometown river" per se, but I grew up almost literally on the banks of the Minnesota River (in the "river bottom"). On the portion of land not ceded (the reservation) in the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, July 23, 1851, but later taken (~1863) following the US-Dakota war.
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A tip to start your day - if you have two windows snapped side by side, and you only want to resize one of them, hold CTRL before grabbing the edge of the window
January 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
A tip to start your day - if you have two windows snapped side by side, and you only want to resize one of them, hold CTRL before grabbing the edge of the window
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Bovino and ICE terrorized Central Ave today and took 2 people, including a legal observer. I’m proud of how Northeast showed up and said clearly get out of our neighborhood and never cone back.
Get involved and learn your rights at defend612.com
Get involved and learn your rights at defend612.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Bovino and ICE terrorized Central Ave today and took 2 people, including a legal observer. I’m proud of how Northeast showed up and said clearly get out of our neighborhood and never cone back.
Get involved and learn your rights at defend612.com
Get involved and learn your rights at defend612.com
Just. Ugh.
Stay strong, stand firm, Twin Cities friends.
Stay strong, stand firm, Twin Cities friends.
By the end of next week, there will be over 3,000 federal agents across CBP, ICE, and DHS in the Twin Cities metro. That's more than 3x the number of sworn officers in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
January 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Just. Ugh.
Stay strong, stand firm, Twin Cities friends.
Stay strong, stand firm, Twin Cities friends.
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"I could do this with a regular expression." or "This looks like resume padding." Then do it bud. Please. Do it, and show us. Can we just let people build cool stuff without the constant thumbwar? Tally is amazing. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4647...
Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
"I could do this with a regular expression." or "This looks like resume padding." Then do it bud. Please. Do it, and show us. Can we just let people build cool stuff without the constant thumbwar? Tally is amazing. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4647...
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🎟️ Your 2026 conference plans start here 👇
If you’re planning to sharpen your #PowerShell, #DevOps, and #Automation skills in 2026, this is the conference to attend.
🎫 Early Bird pricing is available now.
👉 www.powershellsummit.org/tickets/
#PSHSummit26 #AI #Tech #Conference #Bellevue #Seattle
If you’re planning to sharpen your #PowerShell, #DevOps, and #Automation skills in 2026, this is the conference to attend.
🎫 Early Bird pricing is available now.
👉 www.powershellsummit.org/tickets/
#PSHSummit26 #AI #Tech #Conference #Bellevue #Seattle
January 8, 2026 at 9:24 PM
🎟️ Your 2026 conference plans start here 👇
If you’re planning to sharpen your #PowerShell, #DevOps, and #Automation skills in 2026, this is the conference to attend.
🎫 Early Bird pricing is available now.
👉 www.powershellsummit.org/tickets/
#PSHSummit26 #AI #Tech #Conference #Bellevue #Seattle
If you’re planning to sharpen your #PowerShell, #DevOps, and #Automation skills in 2026, this is the conference to attend.
🎫 Early Bird pricing is available now.
👉 www.powershellsummit.org/tickets/
#PSHSummit26 #AI #Tech #Conference #Bellevue #Seattle
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This is important. We have been rocked by a murder but while we respond to that it’s crucial to understand that ICE is still flooding our streets, raiding businesses and terrorizing and snatching Minnesotans, regardless of immigration status. We are under siege in real time.
I hope folks outside of Minnesota know that federal agents are continuing to run rampant - in residential neighborhoods, at businesses, across our communities - terrorizing already traumatized people for no discernible reason other than causing fear and chaos.
It's putting all of us in danger.
It's putting all of us in danger.
January 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
This is important. We have been rocked by a murder but while we respond to that it’s crucial to understand that ICE is still flooding our streets, raiding businesses and terrorizing and snatching Minnesotans, regardless of immigration status. We are under siege in real time.
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Reminder, Minnesota's Earned Sick and Safe Time provides paid time off if your child's school is closed for public emergency
www.dli.mn.gov/sick-leave
www.dli.mn.gov/sick-leave
Earned sick and safe time (ESST) | Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
Minnesota law requires employers to provide earned sick and safe time (ESST), a type of paid leave, to workers in the state. FAQs about earned sick and safe time Rulemaking: Earned sick and safe time...
www.dli.mn.gov
January 8, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Reminder, Minnesota's Earned Sick and Safe Time provides paid time off if your child's school is closed for public emergency
www.dli.mn.gov/sick-leave
www.dli.mn.gov/sick-leave
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This is your reminder that you are allowed to log off of the news fire house and go craft.
Make something.
Throw joy, pain, suffering, tears, anger, any and all of it into art.
I don't care if it is music, collage, painting, drawing, dance, or whatever.
Make something.
Because it matters.
Make something.
Throw joy, pain, suffering, tears, anger, any and all of it into art.
I don't care if it is music, collage, painting, drawing, dance, or whatever.
Make something.
Because it matters.
January 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This is your reminder that you are allowed to log off of the news fire house and go craft.
Make something.
Throw joy, pain, suffering, tears, anger, any and all of it into art.
I don't care if it is music, collage, painting, drawing, dance, or whatever.
Make something.
Because it matters.
Make something.
Throw joy, pain, suffering, tears, anger, any and all of it into art.
I don't care if it is music, collage, painting, drawing, dance, or whatever.
Make something.
Because it matters.
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Hooray! It's New Year's Day!
January 1, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Hooray! It's New Year's Day!
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Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
February 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.
Grab your beverage of choice.
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Hooray! It's Christmas Eve!
December 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Hooray! It's Christmas Eve!