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DJ Konsky - Hottest Hits of 2013

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James Ruskin

May 21, 2014 • 1 min read

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.

Safely Testing Functions from Scripts

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
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James Ruskin Jun 9, 2019 • 1 min read

Getting Started with Badgy

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
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James Ruskin Oct 14, 2018 • 3 min read

Lazy Random Password Generation in PowerShell

So, good passwords are pretty fashionable these days - with an eye towards the ever-relevant XKCD. Sometimes you just want a short method to generate a random string, with some control over which characters are used. Here's a method I use when I need to do this with no external
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James Ruskin Jan 2, 2018 • 1 min read
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