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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 18/09/2026

VS Code has been very slow to load up for me lately. Probably time for me to do some debloating of my extensions 😛

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 16/07/2026

Happy to share that I was renewed as an MS MVP, and congrats to all of the other MVPs getting renewed today. Here's to another year of learning, sharing, and growing together. #MVPBuzz

Email notification from Microsoft saying:

You’ve been accepted to the Microsoft MVP Program!

Daniel Schroeder,

We’re pleased to invite you to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) program in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the community in the following technical area(s):

DevOps
PowerShell

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Justin Grote @posh.guru · 16/06/2026

#PowerShell Runtime Containers for 7.6.3, 7.5.7, and 7.4.17 are now available. ghcr.io/justingrote/...

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Marc-André Moreau @awakecoding.com · 21/05/2026

Introducing psign: portable code signing. every file format, every signing method, every platform 👇 No more "let's run this on Windows because of signtool.exe". Say yes to code signing from Linux! 🚀 github.com/Devolutions/...

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GitHub - Devolutions/psign: Portable code signing tool

Portable code signing tool. Contribute to Devolutions/psign development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Did you see PowerToys has a new utility to make it easier to move windows? You just need to hold ALT or the Windows key and you can drag anywhere on the window Aka.ms/PowerToys

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 09/04/2026

Was in too much shock to post this yesterday. I was demoing how to setup a Dev Drive for ~25% perf improvement, & while cleaning it up at the end of the demo I accidentally deleted my real Dev Drive instead of the dummy one I created for the demo. All local code gone! How's your day going? 😅

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 05/04/2026

I use #Jekyll (static site generator) and #GitHub Pages to host my blog for free. I figured out how to host PR previews with their own public URL for free on GitHub Pages (no 3rd party host needed), so I can preview what the PR site would look like. Give a 💖 if you'd like a blog of how I did this

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 28/03/2026

Is there any parent that hasn’t tried this? 🤣

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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 28/03/2026

At least once a week people are trying to make #Gifs with #PowerShell and #ffmpeg I wish more people knew RoughDraft existed 😞 github.com/StartAutomat... ~~~PowerShell ConvertTo-Gif ./video.mp4 -Start '00:00:01' -End '00:00:02' ~~~ 🙏 spread the word re: bsky.app/profile/bran...

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GitHub - StartAutomating/RoughDraft: A Fun PowerShell Module for Multimedia (using FFMpeg)

A Fun PowerShell Module for Multimedia (using FFMpeg) - StartAutomating/RoughDraft

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 28/03/2026

If you work in #VisualStudio you'll want to check out these awesome extensions by the one-and-only @madskristensen.net

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Justin Grote @posh.guru · 27/03/2026

My #PowerShell Runtime Containers for #docker and #podman have been updated to include the newly released 7.6.0, as well as every supported version since 7.4, in noble-distroless and azurelinux-distroless flavors. Check them out!

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 27/03/2026

Had a great week of learning at #MVPSummit. Chatted with old friends and made some new ones. Already looking forward to doing it again next year. Now taking a break in the sunshine (finally got sun on the last day!) before playing with the new shiny stuff later.

Daniel Schroeder's MS MVP name badge held up beside his name on the MVP name wall. MVP categories are Microsoft Azure - PowerShell and Developer Technologies - DevOps

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Jesse Houwing @jessehouwing.net · 27/03/2026

⚠️ If you maintain Azure DevOps extensions, be careful with the unpublish/delete function. Once deleted, you cannot republish extensions anymore. This change was silently announced here and activated today. github.com/microsoft/vs...

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Deleted Extension Names Are No Longer Reusable · microsoft vsmarketplace · Discussion #1708

We’re updating the Visual Studio Marketplace policy regarding extension names. Effective mid-March, extension names that have been deleted will not be available for reuse, including by the original...

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 23/03/2026

Booo, Air Canada cancelled my connecting flight while I was mid-flight, so now I have an 11 hour layover and will miss the entire #MVPSummit pre-day 😞 Still looking forward so connecting with other MVPs the rest of the week tho

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Harm Veenstra @harmveenstra.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Two days ago, the new LTS version of PowerShell, 7.6, was released. In this short blog post, I will highlight its key features and improvements. #PowerShell #LTS powershellisfun.com/2026/03/20/p...

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PowerShell is fun :)PowerShell v7.6 LTS Release and why it matters

Two days ago, the new LTS version of PowerShell, 7.6, was released. In this short blog post, I will highlight its key features and improvements.

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Matthew Dowst @mdowst.dowst.dev · 20/03/2026

Attention, PowerShell enthusiasts! PowerShell Weekly for March 20, 2026 is live. Get your dose of automation goodness and stay ahead in the game. #PowerShell #Automation #TechNews psweekly.dowst.dev?p=8715

psweekly.dowst.dev

DOWST.DEV | March 20, 2026

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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 19/03/2026

Optimize performance of your .NET application using your existing unit tests, the built-in profiler, and Copilot to tie it all together into a single click of a button. This is now available in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. Watch as Mads lays out the case: buff.ly/2ne4AYm #dotNET #VisualStudio

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Make your programs run faster with one click in Visual Studio 2026 with Mads Kristensen

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Kayla Cinnamon ☕️ @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Check out how to use multi-agent workflows in VS Code! 💙 youtu.be/J5KTpq7hVn4?...

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Multi-agent workflows in VS Code

YouTube video by Visual Studio Code

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Sam Erde @samerde.day3bits.com · 14/03/2026

Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet 1.2.0 has been officially released with lots of bug fixes and improvements! See the release notes on the PowerShell Gallery. www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Mic...

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Alt: a man in a plaid shirt is smiling while standing next to another man in a kitchen .

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mdgrs @mdgrs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I decided to rename my module. Now it's called "GliderUI": github.com/mdgrs-mei/Gl... Cross-platform desktop GUI framework for #PowerShell built using Avalonia. - Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux - You can build GUIs by code or XAML - No more freezing GUIs

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GitHub - mdgrs-mei/GliderUI: Cross-platform Desktop GUI framework for PowerShell powered by Avalonia

Cross-platform Desktop GUI framework for PowerShell powered by Avalonia - mdgrs-mei/GliderUI

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Adam Driscoll @adamrdriscoll.com · 13/03/2026

Messing around with a C# Source Generator for PowerShell cmdlets. You can use it to create .NET classes based on PowerShell cmdlets and invoke them like classes. github.com/adamdriscoll...

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GitHub - adamdriscoll/PowerInvoke: Source generators for PowerShell commands in .NET.

Source generators for PowerShell commands in .NET. - adamdriscoll/PowerInvoke

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mdgrs @mdgrs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Published a new module called AvaloniaUIShell, (the world's first?) cross-platform desktop GUI framework for PowerShell. github.com/mdgrs-mei/Av... It's using the same mechanism as WinUIShell and takes care of all threading and non-blocking UI operations. #PowerShell

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GitHub - mdgrs-mei/AvaloniaUIShell: Cross-platform Desktop GUI framework for PowerShell powered by Avalonia UI.

Cross-platform Desktop GUI framework for PowerShell powered by Avalonia UI. - mdgrs-mei/AvaloniaUIShell

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Stephen Valdinger (aka steviecoaster) @steviecoaster.dev · 05/03/2026

You should come work with me.

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Marc-André Moreau @awakecoding.com · 23/02/2026

I have wrapped my VsDevShell PowerShell module into an agent skill, such that AI agents can automatically enter a Visual Studio developer shell on-demand for tools like "msbuild" or "signtool": skills.sh/awakecoding/...

skills.sh

vsdevshell by awakecoding/vsdevshell

Discover and install skills for AI agents.

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Merill Fernando 💚 @merill.net · 19/02/2026

Your PowerShell is probably full of stale Az modules. I just fixed that. You can now uninstall and clean up all Az modules in one go! Plus there’s a new Uninstall-All cmdlet that removes a stack of Microsoft modules safely. Stop fighting version conflicts 🤩 Get it 👉 uninstall-graph.meri...

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Jordan Borean @jborean.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

At work we need to publish a PowerShell module but didn't want to deal with PSGallery tokens and more permissions we need to audit over time. I've tried out GitHub Container/OCI and Nuget feeds as well as Azure Artifacts. github.com/jborean93/Po... TLDR: Use Azure Artifacts.

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GitHub - jborean93/PowerShell-PublishTest: Testing for publishing a PowerShell module to different repositories

Testing for publishing a PowerShell module to different repositories - jborean93/PowerShell-PublishTest

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Marc-André Moreau @awakecoding.com · 04/02/2026

🚀🔥 The new PowerShell Universal Developer Edition unlocks ALL features for $0, when running on your developer workstation! Build, test, experiment freely — no limits, no compromises. This is the real deal! 🔗 devolutions.net/blog/2026/02...

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PowerShell Universal Developer edition: unlock full features at no cost

PowerShell Universal Developer edition unlocks the complete feature set at no cost, allowing developers to build and test locally before licensing production workloads.

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 02/02/2026

"In this room, we deliver success, we don’t whine. Look, I’m not confused, I know you walk through fields of shit every day. Your job is to find the rose petals." www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02...

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Welcome to the Room

A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella When I was Promoted to Technical Fellow, I was “invited to the room”, joining Microsoft’s other Senior Executives. It was really something. Achieving the Se…

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Why The "10x Engineer" Is A Dangerous Myth | with Charity Majors 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW Watch: youtu.be/aDCOuZ80lDQ

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Rob Sewell He/Him @robsewell.com · 31/01/2026

Its not the most awesome thing to think about but it will take only a moment to do and may save your loved ones some pain. In GitHub under Account settings, you can set your successor who will be able to access your account if you are not able to github.com/settings/admin

The successor settings in GitHub showing Jpomfret as the successor

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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 27/01/2026

🎭⚡ Playwright tests… but in the cloud. No infra. No setup drama. Just hit run and watch your UI + API tests fly on cloud‑hosted browsers. Spin up a workspace, plug in your project, hit go in #VisualStudio or #VSCode, and boom—cloud‑powered testing. 👉 buff.ly/GYY9fDK

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 28/01/2026

A nice reinforcement that AI tools are an accelerator and the quality of the code they generate depends on the person using them. The human in the loop still very much matters. Competent engineers can use AI tools to move faster without generating slop.

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 28/01/2026

I appreciate that MS #Teams shows how many people have already joined the meeting before I join. It allows me to avoid joining when there's only 1 other person and having to make small talk until others join on days when I'm not feeling chatty.

Screenshot of the MS Teams "Join Meeting" prompt, showing how many other people are currently in the meeting. It allows you to see how many people are in the meeting before joining the meeting yourself.

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Jeff Hicks @jdhitsolutions.com · 28/01/2026

It takes very little effort to incorporate the pwshSpectreConsole module into your #PowerShell daily routine.

Sample usage of the pwshSpectreConsole module in PowerShell

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Tim Warner @techtrainertim.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

TIL after years of using Git: git archive Creates clean zip snapshots of your repo without: 🚫 node_modules 🚫 virtual environments 🚫 .git metadata My 180MB folder → 14MB. Perfect for uploading codebases to ChatGPT/Claude. youtu.be/WaZkdLRZubM

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 24/01/2026

After procrastinating for 2 years, my blog finally supports dark mode. GitHub Copilot was a big help. I also cut the ads waaaaaaay down. Now I can focus on creating content again. blog.danskingdom.com

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Daniel Schroeder’s Programming Blog

Daniel Schroeder’s Programming Blog - Sharing my tips, tricks, and code to help other developers be more productive. https://blog.danskingdom.com

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GitHub @github.com · 22/01/2026

The GitHub Copilot SDK is here 🙌 You can take the same Copilot agentic core that powers GitHub Copilot CLI and embed it in any application, with just a few lines of code. github.com/github/copil...

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 22/01/2026

Looking to learn #CSharp or #Postgresql? Grab Dometrain's Learn C# From Scratch course (free for life) and Learn Postgresql course (14-day free trial). Explanations, examples, objectives, and a sandbox, all in your browser. dometrain.com/course/hands... dometrain.com/course/hands...

dometrain.com

Learn C# for Beginners Free Hands-On Course - Dometrain

Learn C# from scratch by completing practical exercises, writing real C# code.

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 22/01/2026

I'm really digging the #Copilot CLI lately for troubleshooting issues in the terminal. It helped me solve a couple docker build/run issues today. Install it on Windows with `winget install GitHub.Copilot`, then type `copilot` to launch it and you're off 🚀 github.com/features/cop...

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GitHub Copilot CLI

GitHub Copilot CLI reads, writes, and runs code where you work. Code faster, smarter, together.

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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 21/01/2026

Hey #PowerShell people: Join us tomorrow night for a special presentation about sandboxed PowerShell in the browser: www.meetup.com/research-tri... We'll be doing an interactive show and tell about #Turtle 🐢 and other #Reptiles 🦎, and talking about #edutech. Be there or be 🐢 square!

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PowerShell in the Browser: Safe Sandboxes and Interactive Learning, Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 8:00 PM | Meetup

What if you could hand someone a PowerShell environment with zero installation, zero risk to your systems, and instant feedback? Microsoft MVP James Brundage is building ex

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Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog @danskingdom.com · 19/01/2026

I'm surprised how many devs don't use a #markdown linter. Nearly every time I open someone's .md, my linter has squiggles everywhere. It usually still renders correctly though, so does it really matter? Debating just uninstalling my linter. Do you lint? marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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markdownlint - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Markdown linting and style checking for Visual Studio Code

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