Hunnicuttt
dmidlo.bsky.social
Hunnicuttt
@dmidlo.bsky.social
Trench-worn sysadmin, renegade software philosopher, and burnt-out craftsman who still cares too much.
This just showed up from Luccy on the powershell discord! I've got some learning to do!

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#powershell
High Performance PowerShell with LINQ
PowerShell is a scripting language, and like all scripting languages it struggles to perform well with rapid iterative processes such as aggregation. It isn't well-known that PowerShell can use LINQ f...
www.red-gate.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Here lay the logs of logs, the watchers of watchers. May no one ever dig this deep again.
April 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
AI. writes. bad. code. Every engineer more productive; it's a wash other than recent entrant hires slowing down. What is remarkable though,
April 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Cool, thanks for explaining.

Pipeline performance is tricky, but there are many circumstances that call for a continuous stream of objects.

I sometimes put this as:

"don't knock the object pipeline until you can rock the object pipeline".

#PowerShell advice
March 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Logic Hacks: And/Or

github.hunnicuttt.com/blog/?20

Explorations in writing style for teaching those who like to learn more than one thing at a time.

#powershell
Blog
github.hunnicuttt.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:19 AM
With my tail between my legs, duty informs me that I've had to update my article 🫣🫡

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#powershell
PowerShell Nihilism as Software Discipline
Every last mistake: practical, emotional, hubris..... it's me; a thousand times over... every...
dev.to
March 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
March 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Towards a happy path ecosystem for fingerprinting of graphs of inert and semi-inert Powershell DTOs. The [DataHash] class implements a rudimentary form of what will be called the CRUX family of algorithms. Works for 99% of use cases in your DX workflow.

dev.to/dmidlo/the-p...

#powershell
The Problem: PowerShell’s Hashing Illusion
PowerShell, for all its flexibility, has a glaring gap: there is no clear, reliable way to hash...
dev.to
March 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM