Griff Barker @griff.systems · 01/10/2026Today I realized that for ~20 years I've been saying the name of this location in Old School RuneScape incorrectly... "BurthROpe" vs. "BurthORpe" Huh. 100
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 18/07/2026✅ loveable chaos achieved 1 y/o Corgi-Aussie mix (left) 3 y/o Corgi-Chihuahua mix (right) It's so fun when they get rambunctious with each other! 140
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 24/06/2026Pre-ordered the Clicks Communicator today. Very excited for these to ship in Q4! 110
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 22/06/2026If someone were looking to get me a birthday gift this year, I wear a size 1974 Porsche 914. 020
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 28/05/2026Returned to tinkering around with polyPoSh again this evening. v1.1.0 is available now on GitHub. Improved support for PowerShell installation on various Linux distributions and architectures, along with adding support for macOS. 🔗 github.com/griffeth-bar... 020
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 23/05/2026There have absolutely never been any mixed messages being sent whatsoever by software. 010
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 17/05/2026It's true 😂 these are our two Corgi mixes and depending on the angle you look at them they're very goofy. Sometimes they're a Corgi in a trenchcoat, and sometimes they look nothing like Corgis. One is Australian Shepard Corgi and the other is Chihuahua Corgi. 010
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 12/03/2026Hm, that's an interesting one. For non-ms-store apps I don't know of a way that doesn't involve actually downloading at least a little bit the installer executable. Which I'm certain is a no-go at that scale. But I'm far from the most knowledgeable person on this. 210
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 12/03/2026v happy corgi girl at the park today (she doesn't care about me or the camera...just the ball in my hand) 010
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 29/01/2026Yeah, that functionality is actually the next icon to the right. Icon: Play button Hotkey: F5 Behavior: Runs entire script Icon: Play button over piece of paper Hotkey: F8 Behavior: Runs selected code 220
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 22/01/2026Feels like with stuff like this, it's always dependencies. There are definitely modules I wish would support PowerShell 7.x -- give us the option of that sweet, sweet parallel operations support! 010
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 22/01/2026Ever needed to know how many users from various domains are in an Exchange/Online distribution group? Here's a little one-liner to show you just that. #PowerShell #ExchangeServer #ExchangeOnline 020
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 16/01/2026It's hy-time I played some #Hytale! So glad y'all are BACK @hytale.bsky.social 000
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 13/01/2026In this image I have a function that (1) declares an ArrayList, (2) adds data to that ArrayList, (3) returns a single ArrayList with proof that it is an ArrayList. 100
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 13/01/2026Yep! James is more an authority than I, by an eternally long shot, but I can confirm this most certainly works. Breaks the way many folks who live in PowerShell expect functions to behave (including me...), but definitely works. 210
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 12/01/2026Last week I messed about with creating a simple admin tool launcher in PowerShell. ⚙️🛠️📜 #PowerShell #WindowsPresentationFramework 020
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 05/01/2026I mean, if we want to joke about verbosity, PowerShell actually does it with fewer characters: ```powershell ni abc.py ``` `ni` is an alias of `New-Item` and since File is the default item type, you don't need to specify it. That said, no need to "bash" (lol) any language. There's room for both! 140
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 05/01/2026Yet another basic service manager for Windows, written in PowerShell. This is very rough and will need more attention from me down the road at some point. github.com/griffeth-bar... #PowerShell #MicrosoftWindows #WindowsServer 110
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 11/12/2025Quick checking HSTS header for a website in PowerShell: ```powershell (iwr bsky.app -useb).headers['strict-transport-security'] # Sample Output # max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains ``` 010
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 10/12/2025This isn't actually what I was doing, but an illustrative example to show how joining an array of strings for your LDAP Filter can make it just more readable and maintanable. 130
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 27/11/2025Had a cozy #Thanksgiving morning with both #Corgi pups lounging on my lap (feat. really wide camera angle). No complaints here! 000
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 22/11/2025MicroITX build in a Fractal Terra case with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, 64 GB RAM, and a few TB of NVMe SSD storage. And the PlayStation 5 runs Orbis OS, based on FreeBSD not Linux 😉 though a PlayStation running something other than Orbis OS is definitely a cool thought. 2100
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 22/11/2025Some of us are running PowerShell on our Linux machines. There are dozens of us! 5410
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 22/11/2025Finally, I tried calling .NET directly: ```powershell [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory($path, $destPath) ``` This took 22s, which was another slight improvement. 100
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 22/11/2025Next, the same command but temporarily disabling the live progress bar: ```powershell $progressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue' Expand-Archive -Path $path -DestinationPath $destPath $progressPreference = 'Continue' ``` This took around 25s -- much faster! This is where the bulk of time is wasted. 120
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 22/11/2025First, just regular. ```powershell Expand-Archive -Path $path -DestinationPath $destPath ``` It took around 1m 8s. 100
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 19/11/2025Well would ya look at that. I didn't realize the COM object for it was still hanging around. #InternetExplorer #Windows #PowerShell 030
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 18/11/2025Nah, that's completely reasonable. There are plenty of well-known orgs with process and systems issues that allow stuff like that to happen. With all the complexity of technology and such, people and process are somehow always the most difficult part to get completely right. 000
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 18/11/2025Feels pretty good to me! I'm using the powershell-bin package from AUR which is currently at v7.5.3 on Garuda Linux. I haven't come across any major issues yet. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers... It's worth at least trying should you feel so inclined. 010
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 18/11/2025Yeah, the form factor can be extremely limiting for higher end builds. Luckily my daily driver is low powered (only a 5700X) enough to not need a secondary, but strong enough for what I do. Built this little guy 3 months ago and am loving the smaller form factor! 020
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 17/11/2025There are certainly those of us out there on Linux using PowerShell! 160
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 12/11/2025Ever considered keeping tabs on your #powershell profile to make sure no unexpected changes were made to it? Try PSProfileWatcher! v0.1.1 is available now. 🔗 Blog Post: griff.systems/posts/psprof... 🔗 PowerShell Gallery: www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSP... 🔗 GitHub: github.com/griffeth-bar... 110
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 11/11/2025You can usually just pipe its standard output to Out-File if you're just dealing with strings. ```powershell Whatever-YoureDoing | Out-File -Path /path/to/file -Force ``` Hopefully that is helpful! 200
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 10/11/20253 days after the guys start a new hardcore #WorldOfWarcraft run 😂 000
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 31/10/2025Very short and simple post from my poking about #sqlite and #powershell yesterday. Programmatic SQLite Queries in PowerShell 🔗 blog.griff.systems/published/20... 050
Griff Barker @griff.systems · 24/10/2025Nice post, Harm! `Get-Random` is fun! It's what I use to roll polyhedral dice using PowerShell in `Invoke-DiceRoll`. gist.github.com/griffeth-bar... 220
![$packageName = "Microsoft.VisualStudioCode"
$url = (winget show $packageName | Select-String 'Installer URL:\s*(http\S+)').Matches.Groups[1].Value
$tmpExe = "$env:TEMP\winget_temp.exe"
$iconOut = "$env:TEMP\$packageName.png"
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $tmpExe -Headers @{ "Range" = "bytes=0-3145728" }
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing
[System.Drawing.Icon]::ExtractAssociatedIcon($tmpExe).ToBitmap().Save($iconOut)
Remove-Item $tmpExe
Write-Output $iconOut](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkbfciykcg4ubnq63ztqvyr7/bafkreiahb4fhr6x44laiv6lqv6xfliscjux7mwrggdbgkqawey7kcwhs74)
![get-distributiongroupmember -id 'group name' | % {$_.primarysmtpaddress.split('@')[1]} | group
# Sample Output
#
# Count Name Group
# ----- ---- -----
# 2 adomain.tld {adomain.tld, adomain.tld}
# 182 bdomain.tld {bdomain.tld, bdomain.tld, bdomain.tld, bdomain.tld…}
# 11 cdomain.tld {cdomain.tld, cdomain.tld, cdomain.tld, cdomain.tld…}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkbfciykcg4ubnq63ztqvyr7/bafkreich4s337xzb4nccxcrcl3smc6jv37ji4pd2swymbbyyffic3wciv4)
![>> function myFunc {
> param(
> $MyData
> )
>
> begin {
> # declare arrayList
> $list = [System.Collections.ArrayList]::new()
>
> # putting static data in that arrayList
> [void]$list.Add('ExistingItem1')
> [void]$list.Add('ExistingItem2')
> [void]$list.Add('ExistingItem3')
> }
> process {
> # putting user-provided data in that arrayList
> [void]$list.Add($MyData)
> }
> end {
> # returning that arraylist using the unary array expression
> return ,$list
> }
> }
>> $test = myFunc -MyData 'AddedItem1'
>> $test
ExistingItem1
ExistingItem2
ExistingItem3
AddedItem1
>> $test.GetType()
IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType
-------- -------- ---- --------
True True ArrayList System.Object](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkbfciykcg4ubnq63ztqvyr7/bafkreih5dq343zhk2plos3d6syestj3xjjahgqynbw7vs2k5jiw5pdf5du)
![function myFunc {
define a listArray of integers
[collections.arrayList]$array = 1..10
use the prepended comma to emit the entire listArray as
# the object instead streaming the integers themselves
# to the pipeline
,$array
}
(myFunc).GetType()](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkbfciykcg4ubnq63ztqvyr7/bafkreiag3m5uml52z2znlw6vxzfattxjux5vgyqphnjigphdtgohlhzk2m)
![```powershell
(iwr https://bsky.app/ -useb).headers['strict-transport-security']
# Sample Output
# max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains
```](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkbfciykcg4ubnq63ztqvyr7/bafkreiayjultakmybsbyh3cxitbocwtlmbloz7i4ioq4wnbkojmbparnp4)
![# assumes you have employees.csv in your present working directory
$newReport = Import-Csv -Path .\employees.csv | ForEach-Object {
$searchName = $_.Name
$adObject = Get-ADUser -Filter { Name -eq $searchName } -Properties Title, Department
[PSCustomObject]@{
Name = $_.Name
Email = $_.Email
Title = $adObject.Title
Department = $adObject.Department
}
}
$newReport | Export-Csv -Path .\employees-new.csv -NoTypeInformation -Force](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkbfciykcg4ubnq63ztqvyr7/bafkreih74xovz2pwye2pljiug5mciegkb7jiz4anzoxwb52ts3ewqizgqq)
