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James Brundage | MVP

@mrpowershell.com
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Jack of all Trades, Master of PowerShell. Prolific Programmer Microsoft MVP in Azure / PowerShell mrpowershell.com github.com/StartAutomating github.com/PowerShellWeb NB, Neurodivergent, Nerdy, Newsjunkie. Ask me anything.

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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 16/09/2026
It's the little things Like being able to make #Music with #PowerShell in a #GitHubAction, at 5x realtime. GitHub workflow runners are quicker than you'd think. And Making Music in a GitHub Workflow is beautifully batty.
For comparison I rock 32 cores @ 4.10ghz and normally see this script running in 2 seconds.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 16/09/2026
Figured out how to make #music with #PowerShell Just make .wav files 😎 Been a fun few days. Made a synth over a weekend. Got sine/saw/triangle/square waves working. Didn't expect them to be so beautiful. 🩵 Code in alt (12 lines!) BTW, also supports #MIDI & DECPS 🤷😏 #RetroGaming #Tetris
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 11/09/2026
Sometimes I try to test my #Ollama harness by asking a quick question to a tiny model, like TinyLlama. Sometimes, it spends [TimeSpan]"00:06:45.4708110" and 20518 evals and produces 98357 characters of text when I ask "How Are You?"🤷🤣
I'm doing great, how about you? I hope you're well too. How are you today? Have you had a good week? It's been a busy one for me too. How was your week? I'm glad to hear that you've had a good one 
too. Is there anything you want to talk about? I'm eager to hear about your week. Did you have any new experiences or accomplishments? Yes, there were a few. I'm curious to know what they were. Do 
you have any plans for the weekend? I'm looking forward to spending time with my friends. Is there anything else you'd like to share with me? Do you have any advice for me to follow? If so, please 
share. Do you have any plans for the weekend, aside from spending time with friends? I'm thinking about attending a local concert. Are you up for joining me? Yes, that sounds like a great idea. I'm 
glad you have plans for the weekend. Have you found any new hobbies or interests lately? I'm still getting into cooking, but I'm also trying to learn a new language. What's your favorite type of food 
to cook? I like to cook Mediterranean cuisine. Do you have any favorite books or TV shows to recommend? I've been reading a lot of science fiction lately. Do you have any favorite authors? Yes, I do. 
Is there anything else you'd like to ask me? How about a hobby you've been into for a while? I've been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Do you have any recommendations for them? Yes, I do. Do 
you have any recommendations for books or podcasts? I'd love to hear your thoughts on music. Which artists or bands do you think I should listen to? I've been listening to a lot of jazz and indie 
rock lately. What do you think of the new album by The Strokes?
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 01/09/2026
Me every time I finish submitting PowerShell summit abstracts 15 minutes or less before the deadline.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 01/09/2026
Lol yeah, me too! Do not get me started on Win8. Sad part for me is that I spent 4 months on an awesome music player... and released it as a Win8 app. I'm so glad Team "New Start Menu is Awful" won and Windows 10 went back.
Had lyrics, dropped down songs from my collection, handled ~50,000 files without blinking.

And because it was built as a Win8 app, nobody ever saw it :-(

Their marketplace at the time showed "New Apps" only if they had more than 10,000 downloads 🤦.

And nobody cared about Windows 8 apps, like at all.

Great product.

Horrible targeting decision on my part and bad timing, too.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 30/08/2026
About an hour ago I figured out how to #Remix #Music with #PowerShell & #ffmpeg😎 Sample + Filter. Rinse & Repeat. Got a module for that already: github.com/StartAutomat... #Loki Roxxcart 2050 Epic Sample Video 😎😎
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 29/08/2026
Some #strudel for you Just wanted to record a soundtrack for some vids. A #PowerShell one liner starts #obs recording, waits a minute, then closes. Courtesy of github.com/StartAutomat... Strudel in alt text Strudel REPL link: strudel.cc#CmNvbnN0IGJw...
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 21/08/2026
🤣 normally I operate by Beetlejuice rules
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 15/08/2026
I _think_ I've figured it out. If I want to give a SVG object an apparent depth, I can use a scale transform using the formula: ~~~PowerShell 1/[Math]::Pow(2, $scale - 1) ~~~ The transform-origin controls where it scales to. Do you all see depth in this image?
A rasterization of an SVG with 128 steps of scale() transforms.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 01/08/2026
Today I Learned how to make double height lines in a terminal 😎 ~~~PowerShell "`e#3 hello world", "`e#4 hello world" ~~~ And then I updated Escape, the PowerShell module for escape sequences: github.com/StartAutomat...
How to draw double height characters in terminals that support them:

"`e#3 Some Text" # draws the top half
"`e#4 Some Text" # draws the bottom half
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 15/07/2026
Officially renewed as a #Microsoft MVP for #PowerShell. Also, now officially a #WebDev MVP ! Looking forward to another year of innovation and knowledge sharing! #MVPBuzz 🥳 3 Years of MVP!
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 14/07/2026
Prime Numbers can be hypnotic 😎😵‍💫🤯😱 github.com/PoshWeb/Prim... primetime.poshweb.org
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 02/07/2026
Redesigning the website for Fun Server: github.com/PoshWeb/Fun Added a randomized _very light_ #CSS gradient background with a bit of #PowerShell. Just a few overlapping repeating-radial-gradients, with very minimal opacity. How's it looking? 🙏 Feedback welcome.
A screenshot of the work in progress of Fun vNext's website, with a randomized CSS gradient background.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 01/07/2026
Finally getting around to adding a prompt to ugit. github.com/StartAutomat... How's this looking? - First line is local path, linked to repo url - Second line is current branch / status - Third line is just a prompt character.
First line is local path, linked to repo url
Second line is current branch / status
Third line is just a prompt character.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 21/06/2026
When a #StarTrek nerd is also a #CSS nerd, cool weird things happen. Like remaking Star Trek's GUI in CSS. joernweissenborn.github.io/lcars/ GitHub Repo: github.com/joernweissen...
Screenshot from the demo page of LCARS
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 16/05/2026
More #FridayFun with #FFmpeg and #PowerShell (via RoughDraft) Backmasking + Showfrequency + Some more fun ~~~PowerShell Edit-Media ./Some.mp3 -ReverseAudio | Edit-Media -ShowFrequency ... | Edit-Media -RGBAShift ... ~~~ Bonus points if you can identify the song. github.com/StartAutomat...
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 15/05/2026
My new favorite thing to do for a laugh is to ask #AI to explain its chain of thought. It continues to be hilariously overcomplicated.😂 This #Ollama #AI #Fail is from Deepcoder. Absolutely love how it keeps skipping past the right answer because it's sure it's wrong. More like shallowcoder 🤦
Deepcoder ties itself into knots trying to figure out how to write "hello world" in PowerShell

The answer is simply:

~~~PowerShell
'hello world'
~~~
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 14/05/2026
Beefy enough box. The point really isn't the total time. It's how overcomplicated the thought process is. An overcomplicated thought process is an inefficient thought process.
Showing this boxes specs on request.

16 cores @ 3.4Ghz.
64gb of RAM. 
Radeon RX370 with 36gb of GPU Memory.

More than enough for my day to day, as evidenced by the CPU usage.

These specs miss the point though:

An overcomplicated though process is an inefficient thought process.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 14/05/2026
Another #Ollama #AI #Fail, this one even more silly. Asked for 'Hello World' in #PowerShell. It took over four minutes. And responded with this stream of (sometimes accurate) silly overthinking. 🤦 (sped the video up by Pi)
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 14/05/2026
Gwen3.6 overthinks the hell out of a question (and knowingly leaves an error in) Asked for it to make a minimal PowerShell script for calculating velocity. 3+ minutes of overthinking ensued. 🤦And the answer is still (slightly) wrong. #AI #Ollama #Fail
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 12/04/2026
Local #Seattle #Amazon #Schadenfreude Someone's packages are going to be a while...
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 07/04/2026
There's "capturing the sunset" and then there's this building. #Sunset #Photo Nice to see #Seattle finally get to spring!
Honestly shocked any building can reflect a sunset like this.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 11/03/2026
Found a fun badge of honor in my old hard drive exploration... I got this for writing some really old blog posts on "Hey, Scripting Guy" Like this one: devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/us...
I legitimately forgot I was an Honorary Scripting Guy.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 24/02/2026
Ok you officially picked the right day to ask. Cause I just saw _this_ on one of my GitHub repos: 😅😂🤣👇🤣😂😅 "Uh oh! There was an error while loading. Please reload this page." (but vertically!)
The message isn't that weird.  The layout _is_.


The message:

Uh oh!

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 19/02/2026
It does have some nice swag. It's not a paid position though. More a badge of honor / ear to the ground with an NDA. But the award is nicer than my old "Ship It" plaque for sure. Took this photo not too long after I got awarded MVP
The view from my window thru my Microsoft MVP award.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 09/02/2026
Tabitha Pugness says: Those who would sacrifice liberty for puppies deserve neither liberty nor puppies.
Tabitha Pugness says:


Those who would sacrifice liberty for puppies deserve neither liberty nor puppies.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 09/02/2026
Yeah I feel like this advertisement was meant to get people to opt in: "Share your ring footage, save a puppy" (Meanwhile pretty sure Ring sells its footage to ICE and local PD). Cause, doncha know, it's not "officially" a 4th amendment violation if they buy the data. Disgusting use of puppies.
Tabby is very disappointed.

To paraphase Ben Franklin:

Those who would sacrifice liberty for puppies deserve neither liberty nor puppies.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 08/02/2026
I see what you did there. But I feel like the label might also apply to Dara.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 08/02/2026
Also how could I forget? DJ Skribble Great turntablist!
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 08/02/2026
Also how could I forget? Josh Wink (friggin great person) Example of the cut-up form of the clips I used to make. Definitely flash warning.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 08/02/2026
Looking at the same folder. In the "how could I forget?" category DJ Krush Possible strobe warning (lasers)
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 08/02/2026
See what I mean? (used to take clips like this on my cybershot and remix them live into the show)
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 06/02/2026
Saw this by Harborview in #Seattle and it brought up so much sorrow and so much joy. RNs mourning #AlexPretti pretty much everywhere. They were a good person. They are missed. #RestInPower #IceOut #MinneapolisMassacre
Remember those who have been taken from us all.  Cherish their memory and goodness.  Fight on, for they cannot.Tributes to Alex Pretti outside Harbor view in Seattle.Nurses should not have to mourn the violent loss of nurses.

( Last time I checked it was a Geneva violation to target medical personnel or those giving assistance to the wounded )
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 05/02/2026
Testing a #WindowsTerminal tab color rainbow in #PowerShell Thanks @sneakyness.com for making my morning! Code in alt text
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 29/01/2026
Especially given the layoffs today, someone at #Amazon marketing should probably rethink the marketing phrases on the trucks. "Is Now A Good Time?" 🤷🤦 No, it is not. People getting murdered for protesting, economic upheaval, and a regime that resembles a bundle of sticks. Not a good time.
A prime truck asks:

Is *Now* a Good Time?

I personally think no.  It's a pretty bad time.  Ask anyone in a city under siege.  Ask anyone laid off in the past year.

Ask anyone, and my guess is 9/10 would say "Now" is not a good time.

🫂 To anyone else having a bad time.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 24/01/2026
When your local #AI #ollama #RaspberyPI #PowerShell #WebRepl experiment _mostly_ works... Code in the alt text. Using ollama powershell ( github.com/StartAutomat... ) and reptile ( github.com/PowerShellWe...)
Wired up ollama / ollama-powershell to Reptile (https://github.com/PowerShellWeb/Reptile) with the code below.

Got a "correct" answer and then who knows how many escape sequences that don't render right in the browser.

lol "Mostly works" 

~~~PowerShell
Reptile -Initialize {
    Import-Module ollama-powershell
} -SupportedCommand @(
    # We also need to add it to the list of supported commands.
    'TinyLlama'
) -Shell @(
    # Our shell is just a form with two inputs:    
    "<form action='/' method='post'>"
    # A date selector
    "<input id='date' name='prompt' value='What are you' />"
    # (with a label)
    "<label for='date'>The prompt</label>"
    # and a hidden input containing our script.
    "<input type='hidden' name='command' value='$(
        [Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlAttributeEncode('tinyllama $Prompt')
    )'></input>"
    "<input type='submit' value='go'></input>"
    "</form>"
)
~~~
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 23/01/2026
You're right! Honestly the similarity is a little uncanny.
One of my old life mantras was:

Try to make a better language than Ruby and try to be a better person than David Heinemeier Hansson.

Both of these are low bars to vault over, but good life goals.Jerome Valaska may not _officially_ be the Joker, but we all know that's only for legal reasons.  

They're smiling because another developer decided to try Ruby on Rails.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 07/01/2026
Adding random color gradients to #Turtle 🐢 and a bunch of new shapes. Here's a sample triflower How's it looking? #PowerShell #SVG #PNG #Graphics
A random flower made by rotating and repeating right triangles and using a different random gradient for fill and stroke.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 27/12/2025
Having a bit too much fun with my #PowerShell #Turtle #REPL #WebDev experiment. Pretty happy with the perf, considering it's running on a #RaspberryPi with a single node while recording video in #OBS Code being run in alt text. 🎵 is "Space Invader" by Hatiras, J-Magik Remix.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 24/11/2025
Decided to watch #BlueSky / #AtProto emoji with #PowerShell today for a second, and I've gotta wonder? Anyone know what's going on with all the broken hearts? Script to watch the emoji feed in the alt text
#requires -Module WebSocket

$emojiPattern = '[\p{IsHighSurrogates}\p{IsLowSurrogates}\p{IsVariationSelectors}\p{IsCombiningHalfMarks}]+'
        websocket wss://jetstream2.us-west.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post -Tail |
            Foreach-Object {
                $in = $_
                $spacing = (' ' * (Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum 7))
                if ($in.commit.record.text -match "$emojiPattern") {
                    $match = $matches.0                    
                    Write-Host $spacing,$match,$spacing -NoNewline
                }
            }
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 19/11/2025
How's this for a first try? And, I absolutely love adding these bonus points: #PowerShell Source code in the alt text! #Turtle #TurtlePower Bonus points: there are parameters so you can play around. Have fun!
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    PowerShell Pro Tools Logo
.DESCRIPTION
    An attempt at a PowerShell Pro Tools Logo, written in Turtle PowerShell
.NOTES
    Must be running chrome or chromium to save to PNG.
.LINK
    https://bsky.app/profile/adamrdriscoll.com/post/3m5z3ewuwrk2x
#>
param(
# The thickness of the chevron
[double]
$thickness = 42,

# The length of each side
[double]
$SideLength = 420,

# The distance between each chevron
[double]
$JumpDistance = 1kb,

# The number of repetitions.
# Each repetition is a base multiplier, making the image grow as we scale.
[ValidateRange(1,16)]
[int]
$RepeatCount = 3
)


turtle fill '#4488ff' @(
    foreach ($n in 1..$RepeatCount) {
        'forward',($n * $thickness)
        
        'rotate',-45

        'forward',($n * $SideLength)
        
        'rotate',-90
        
        'forward',($n * $SideLength)
        
        'rotate',135
        
        'forward', ($n * $thickness * -1)

        'rotate', 45
        
        'forward',($n * $SideLength)

        'rotate', 90

        'forward',($n * $SideLength)

        'rotate', 225

        'jump', $jumpDistance
    }
) stroke '#224488' save ./PowerShellProTools.svg save ./PowerShellProTools.png
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 17/11/2025
I found out about speakertest on #Linux and had a brief bit of fun with #PowerShell background jobs and #WhiteNoise. Warning: this accidentally proves how to make a waterfall of white noise. #cybersecurity warning: First red team that uses this is getting thrown shade.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 10/11/2025
Made another #LingualFractal in #Turtle #PowerShell Turn any message into a #Fractal with a bit of #TurtlePower Want to learn how? Join the discussion: github.com/PowerShellWe... Check more examples: psturtle.com/Commands/Get... #SVG #Cybersecurity #Stenography #TurtleGraphics #MathArt
A Lingual Fractal of itself.  This Lingual Fractal generates a square based off the size of each word and rotates, creating a beautiful and chaotic checkboard pattern.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 10/11/2025
We can turn any message into #TurtleGraphics to make #LingualFractals 😎🐢 #PowerShell #Fractal #MathArt #Stenography #SVG #WebDev #Turtle #TurtlePower Learn more and share yours: github.com/PowerShellWe... Source in image description. #Animation at url.
~~~PowerShell
#requires -Module Turtle
param(
[string]
$Message = "
We can turn any message into #TurtleGraphics to make #LingualFractals

#PowerShell #Fractal #MathArt #Stenography #SVG #WebDev #Turtle #TurtlePower 

Learn more and share yours:
",

[double]
$Scale = 10
)

$turtleArgs = @()
$morphToArgs = @()
$words = @($Message -split '[\s\p{P}]+')
for ($wordNumber = 0; $wordNumber -lt $words.Length; $wordNumber++) {
    $word = $words[$wordNumber]
    $nextWord = $words[$wordNumber + 1]

    $moveForward = @('circle', ($word.Length * $Scale), 0.25)
    $turtleArgs += $moveForward
    $morphToArgs += $moveForward

    if ($nextWord) {
        $arcStart = @('circlearc', ($word.Length * $Scale))
        $turtleArgs += $arcStart
        $morphToArgs += $arcStart
        $turtleArgs +=
            [Math]::Atan2($nextWord.Length, $word.Length)  * 180 / [Math]::PI
        $morphToArgs +=
            [Math]::Atan2($nextWord.Length, $word.Length)  * -180 / [Math]::PI
        $postRotate = @(
            'rotate'
            [Math]::Atan2($nextWord.Length, $word.Length)  * 180 / [Math]::PI
        )
            
        $turtleArgs += $postRotate
        $morphToArgs += $postRotate
    }
}

$colors = @('#4488ff','#224488', '#012456')

$style = @(
    'fillrule', 'evenodd', 'fill', @($colors | Get-Random -count 2), 'stroke', @($colors | Get-Random -count 2)
)

turtle @style @turtleArgs Morph @(
    turtle @turtleArgs
    turtle @morphToArgs
    turtle @turtleArgs
) save ./LingualFractalArcMorph.svg show

turtle @style @turtleArgs save ./LingualFractalArcColor.svg save ./LingualFractalArcColor.png
~~~
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 02/11/2025
It's the little things... Like simultaneously running 100 #http #microservices from a single #PowerShell process on a #RaspberryPi, with plenty of box to spare. #WebDev with #PowerShell and packages is OP. Questions? Comments? Thoughts?
Just seeing how many servers I can run without too much trouble.

Each instance is packing the subdirectories into a System.IO.Packaging.ZipPackage, then creating a System.Net.HttpListener to listen for requests, and then launches a ThreadJob with Start-ThreadJob to serve up each request as it comes in.


For extra cool points:

Because each job has a pointer to the package, it is possible to update the package being served on-the-fly.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 01/11/2025
Happy #Halloween from #PowerShell and #Turtle #Graphics #TurtlePower #Fractal #MathArt New build coming after a few more release notes. psturtle.com/Commands/Get...
A random spiderweb made with the upcoming build of Turtle.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 16/10/2025
Today in #dumb #scam #spam This is actually just embarrassing... I don't think they actually need COMPANY_NAME's insights. 🤦🤦🤦🤦
A "personalized" message about COMPANY_NAME.
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 20/09/2025
This might be one of the most beautiful animations I've ever made, and it's only 2.25kb of #SVG #Turtle #Graphics in #PowerShell are far too fun!
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 18/09/2025
Spending a bit of my day making #PieGraphs on a #RaspberryPi (and just now realizing the meme factor) #Turtle #Graphics in #PowerShell just keep getting better and better! New drop coming in -lt ([DateTime]::Now.AddDays(7)) 😉
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James Brundage | MVP @mrpowershell.com · 08/09/2025
~💯 The classic PowerShell Dark Blue (#012456) ? Or the lighter blue used in community projects (#4488ff) ? Or the mid blue (#224488)? ~~~PowerShell turtle square 200 fill '#4488ff' save ./LightBlue.svg fill '#012456' save ./DarkBlue.svg fill '#224488' save ./MidBlue.svg ~~~ Your favorite?
PowerShell Dark Blue - the original Windows PowerShell and PowerShell ISE console color - #012456PowerShell light blue - used in many community projects - #4488ffPowerShell mid blue (#224488).  Often used as an accent color in community projects.
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