I recently saw a post by Jakub Jares on testing self-contained scripts with Pester. He suggests, essentially, hijacking the call to any functions, dot-sourcing the script, and then removing the hijack (an alias, in this case). We do something similar at work to test Azure runbooks - containing all actual

So, I bought a Badgy! It seemed like something interesting and fun, vaguely related to my previous projects converting old Kindle screens into low-power ToDo lists, and I'd have something amusing to take to at least one convention and geek out about. I had a few issues getting the examples

I had a lovely ride with my friend Elaine today, though we got a bit lost. Seems like Strava crashed at some point, as Elaine tracked us as having gone 45 miles, not ~42.

After a few days tussling with the out of date walkthroughs Amazon provide for developing Alexa Skills, I was happy to get this working: ...now I've just got to get something useful to other people working.

After seeing this amazing thread, I had a quick think about the problem mentioned here. I wanted [to export] PowerShell Hashtables [to] the file [...] instead of JSON. The reason this came up was that I was pulling configuration hashtables out of scripts and plac[ing] them into files. This worked

I was just running a delightful batch script written by Jason Faulkner to update my SysInternals tools directory. It was taking forever! At least 2 seconds per tool (regardless of state), and a huge chunk of time to download the current tool list. It seems to download everything, regardless of

Was just going to re-enable NPAPI plugins in Chrome, and I found this: Now that's cool! Slightly weirdly, I love exploring the about:flags page in Chrome (Canary, or otherwise) and finding things in various stages of development - and I always loved the functionality that allowed you to see

Nice ride! Managed to miss my Dad at Gransden, Orwell, and Barrington, but otherwise lovely. Also to note: The Royal Oak in Barrington stops serving drinks at 15:00. What the what!?

Watch live video from Jinoxide on TwitchTV I've been playing plenty of Payday 2 with the Playstuff gang recently - it's in vogue, after some great updates, publicity and trailers. Anyway, I thought I'd stream some of it. I'd recommend watching the recent "Dentist" trailer, starring Giancarlo Esposito

I've quite enjoying Watch_Dogs, playing it a little every few nights - it's not the new best thing since sliced bread, but it's quite interesting. I'm slightly disappointed by a lot of things in it - punishing damage in gunfights mixed with little to no downsides to anything relating

Wow. That's awesome.

DJ Konsky's Hottest Hits Of 2013 Mashup from Brett W. on Vimeo. Quite good fun. Some recent controversy about some-guy-I-can't-remember trying to pass the video off as his own.

Thanks to Fergus for putting up with me - turns out, I'm awful at hills. I had a lot of fun, though, and was convinced of the necessity of cycling gear. I was going to get one of the r/Cycling jerseys, but shipping is half the cost of the

Weight = Some To this end, do I really need a wi-fi enabled weighing scale? This simple-looking device will apparently do interesting things like "recognise me", and "weigh me", and "wirelessly upload my current weight and fat/body ratio to the vast pool of data known

Mashups, mixes, and more - Soundcloud hosts a bizarre amount of great music, and pops up in a lot of the places I go searching for streamable tracks at odd times. My account on Soundcloud is Jinoxide, and I occassionally reshare or like stuff - here's a playlist of stuff