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I just got out of the theater where I saw Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey.

From time to time, I will go and watch a string of movies from the same actor, writer, or director.

I just finished a rewatch of One Battle After Another (2025).

I plan on going deeper into the New Hollywood era as well as catching up on some movies I missed recently.

Recently I saw a people talking about the albums that they can listen straight through.

First off, this book was brilliant.

After years of running websites, I've come across a few simple tricks to help to deal with certificates.

Michael DeHaan, the creator of Ansible, has released a new orchestration tool called Jet.

The Missing README by Chris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy is a guide for those just entering the software development field.

As I look back on my sixteen years in information technology, I can't help but notice the impact PowerShell has had on my career.

I build this blog using Hugo and updated it nightly (or on push to main) via GitHub Actions.

After years and years of administering Linux servers on the web, I've picked up a few tricks.

Keeping an eye on web servers that stop serving pages or hard drive that fill up are monitoring basics.

It is time to combine my two WordPress blogs (one at powershell.getchell.org and the other at ngetchell.com) so I can bring all of my writing in one place.

As a systems administrator working with Active Directory your probably proficient in granting access to network resources.

As you progress from running commands at the console, to scripting tedious work, to automating entire processes you still need to keep an eye on whats running.

Wait, is Get-Help or Get-Command right?

PowerShell is a programming language and console application that comes with "batteries included".

A ton of work went into the v3 version of PSGitLab, both on my part and that of the community.

PowerShell comes with a simple way to install a module using PowerShellGet and the Find/Install Module cmdlets.

Maintaining integrity in your code is hard.

If you’re like me, you try to automate everything through the PowerShell console.

Parallelizing work in PowerShell has been a drag.

There have been many great features added to PowerShell throughout the years.

PowerShell Core 6.0 has been released thanks to the hard work of the PowerShell Team.

Whether you’re at a help desk resetting passwords or setting up service accounts, you always need to be able to generate good random passwords.

Even with Microsoft releasing new Windows 10 builds on a twice-yearly basis, there is still a case to be made to slipstream updates into your install media.

If you’re like me, every once in a while you have a dash of brilliance, write the perfect one-liner, but forget to record your work.

In my limited Linux administration experience I got used to dealing with text.

Starting with Windows Management Framework 5.1 PowerShell now comes with Update-ModuleManifest.

Ever since the 2015 North America PowerShell Summit I’ve become addicted to Pester testing.

Writing good Pester Tests is hard.

If you handle any sort of data in your job you’ve likely run into the common PowerShell cmdlets for dealing with data; Import-CSV, Export-CSV, Import-CliXML, and Export-Clixml.

Whether you’re writing scripts, functions to automate a repetitive task, or building a whole toolkit you should be familiar with installing modules.

Speed and consistency are the two main reasons people automate tasks using PowerShell.

Source control, whether you’re writing one off scripts or automating intricate processes, is essential to your work.

Beginning with Windows Management Framework 5 Microsoft decided to ship Pester and PSReadline baked into the framework.

I just recently published a module to the PowerShell Gallery called PSPushover and it couldn’t have been easier.

Two strong points of PowerShell are the ability to work with Pipelines and Objects.

I got a secret for you.

Formatting output from cmdlets doesn’t have to be complicated.

For years Microsoft has played a trick on systems administrators.

PowerShell Direct is a new feature to Windows Management Framework version 5 that allows for Windows hosts to run PowerShell commands against a Hyper-V guest.

Have you ever tried running a script only to find that your user account doesn’t have the proper rights?

Sorry that I missed the first minute.

With PowerShell version 5 Microsoft released a way of installing modules using PowerShell.

In one word: Community.