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  • You just joined Mastodon, now what?

    Nov 28, 2022 · 3 min read  ·
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    When I first joined Mastodon, I was excited to learn that fedifinder and debirdify can help find my Twitter friends on Mastodon. Both are web-based tools that search your follows and/or followers on Twitter for possible Mastodon accounts, then export the results to a CSV file. First thing I'd recommend doing? Find your …


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  • Using GitHub Pages to Setup an Alias on Mastodon

    Nov 21, 2022 · 3 min read  ·
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    After moving from Twitter to Mastodon, I wrote a blog post about how aliases can help us keep a consistent social media presence even if we change servers. This means that even though dbatools is currently using the fosstodon.org server as [email protected], I'll be linking [email protected] on all of our …


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  • Aliases on Mastodon: Add me! I'm also [email protected]

    Nov 20, 2022 · 4 min read  ·
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    Just recently, I was presenting at a conference and when I got to the intro slide, I realized how weird it is that Twitter will no longer be a part of that. I used to dedicate a whole slide saying "Find me on Twitter, I'm @cl" and now ¯\(ツ)/¯. Thing is, I found a server I like so far but what if I move? What …


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  • Moving to Mastodon: I actually like it better (Updated!)

    Nov 18, 2022 · 7 min read  ·
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    Mastodon feels like the 2007 Internet -- it's exciting and hasn't been plagued by SEO-gaming websites and "a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four." Initially, I was pretty gutted by the sale of Twitter but now I see that what I was afraid of losing connections …


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  • Docker on GitHub Actions macOS Runners (2022)

    Nov 17, 2022 · 2 min read  ·
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    One of my GitHub Actions, mssqlsuite makes it ultra easy to install SQL Server on Linux, Windows and macOS runners. When working on the macOS portion, I was surprised that docker was not built-in. Turns out, GitHub had to remove docker from the macOS images because of licensing issues. Workarounds One of the most …


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  • Signing Windows Software with GitHub Actions, Encrypted Secrets and PowerShell

    Jun 20, 2022 · 12 min read  ·
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    Code signing your scripts, modules and applications can help increase enterprise adoption, as large organizations often prohibit running unsigned tools on Windows. Signed code allows machines to verify that what they're running hasn't been altered or compromised by a third party, which ultimately increases their …


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  • ExpressVPN on macOS: No internet detected

    Jun 1, 2022 · 1 min read  ·
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    I've used ExpressVPN for years and it's worked great on all my devices until one day, when it stopped even trying to make a connection from my Mac Mini. As soon as I'd hit the connect button, it said it couldn't detect an internet connection -- even though I totally had an Internet connection. So I uninstalled, …


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  • RBAR Performance in PowerShell

    May 31, 2022 · 8 min read  ·
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    Years ago before I learned PowerShell, I was using T-SQL to do things it just wasn't meant to do, namely SQL Server estate management. T-SQL is incredibly efficient when managing data, but it's not very efficient when managing SQL Server instances. For example, say you need to perform a task against each database. The …


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  • Import-DbaCsv Design Considerations

    May 24, 2022 · 6 min read  ·
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    This post is about Import-DbaCsv, a command within the dbatools PowerShell module for SQL Server. I've been writing about CSV imports using PowerShell for a pretty long time and in VBScript for even longer. Initially, my primary concerns were ease-of-use and speed. Over time, I realized that what mattered most was: …


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  • Rebuilding a Proxmox cluster node

    Apr 15, 2022 · 3 min read  ·
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    Recently, I had to rebuild my proxmox cluster after a disk failure. Against all advice, I installed Proxmox on USB keys. It worked well for ESX so I thought I could get away with it with Proxmox, but alas. Both of my nodes failed after a few months. Rebuilding the cluster was easier than I expected, but probably …


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Chrissy LeMaire

SQL & PowerShell MVP. GitHub Star. Creator of dbatools. Need to oil my knees.

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  • You just joined Mastodon, now what?
  • Using GitHub Pages to Setup an Alias on Mastodon
  • Aliases on Mastodon: Add me! I'm also [email protected]
  • Moving to Mastodon: I actually like it better (Updated!)
  • Docker on GitHub Actions macOS Runners (2022)
  • Signing Windows Software with GitHub Actions, Encrypted Secrets and PowerShell
  • ExpressVPN on macOS: No internet detected
  • RBAR Performance in PowerShell

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