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  • Asking Bigger Questions: Remote LLMs for Automation Engineers

    calendar Mar 16, 2025 · 17 min read  ·
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    If you read my post on asking tiny questions, you're already familiar with how structured output turns LLMs into pretty reliable data processors. We saw how requesting boolean responses or specific JSON formats made local LLMs actually useful for automation tasks.

    In this article, we're taking that same structured …


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  • AI Automation with AI Toolkit for VS Code and GitHub Models: A Visual Guide

    calendar Mar 14, 2025 · 7 min read  ·
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    This is the first installment in a series of posts that show actually useful use-cases for AI in automation. Most of the content will revolve around "structured output," which is basically JSON-formatted AI output. You'll learn more about structured output in-depth later on, but in this post, I wanted to give …
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  • Exploring GitHub Copilot Chat

    calendar Apr 7, 2023 · 6 min read  ·
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    I've been super busy with a couple projects (including dbatools 2.0, which will be GA soon) and hadn't kept up with much, but I got a notification on my phone for an article on infoworld.com that talked about a new GitHub Copilot feature in VS code called Copilot chat.

    While reading the article, I got the feeling that …


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  • You just joined Mastodon, now what?

    calendar 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

    calendar 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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  • Docker on GitHub Actions macOS Runners (2022)

    calendar 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

    calendar 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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  • Default PowerShell Paths (PSModulePath) on GitHub Runners

    calendar Mar 24, 2022 · 1 min read  ·
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    If you're curious about the $Env:PSModulePath for GitHub Runners, here's what I came up with after running a workflow.

    Knowing the $Env:PSModulePath of each runner can be useful for making specific types of GitHub Actions. I used it within my own GitHub Action, psmodulecache which makes caching PowerShell modules from …


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  • Migrating my WordPress sites to GitHub Pages

    calendar Aug 31, 2020 · 7 min read  ·
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    Edit: Nevermind! Just follow Kendra Little's blog post if you're looking to move from WordPress to another platform. Doing it the way this tutorial suggets makes it impossibly hard to add new posts.


    After getting hacked one too many times, I've decided to move all of my blogs and URL-shortening sites from a Virtual …


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  • URL Shortening/Redirects using GitHub Pages and Jekyll

    calendar Aug 31, 2020 · 2 min read  ·
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    Recently, I moved many of my blogs/shortlink domains to GitHub Pages. With that, the security of my sites increased dramatically, but I lost some functionality including search and 301 (Moved Permanently) Redirects using .htaccess, which I use extensively for shortlinks.

    Because GitHub Pages don't support .htaccess or …


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Chrissy LeMaire

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

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AI Integration Series

  • Automation with AI Toolkit + GH Models
  • Getting Started with AI for PowerShell
  • Asking Tiny Questions: Local LLMs
  • Local Models Demystified
  • Asking Bigger Questions: Remote LLMs
  • PDF Text to SQL Data with OpenAI
  • Document Classification in SharePoint
  • Azure Functions Doc Parser

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recent posts

  • Document Intelligence with Azure Functions: A Practical Implementation
  • Automating Document Classification in SharePoint with Power Platform and AI
  • Asking Bigger Questions: Remote LLMs for Automation Engineers
  • AI Integration for PowerShell Developers: Getting Started with PSOpenAI and GitHub Models
  • AI Automation with AI Toolkit for VS Code and GitHub Models: A Visual Guide
  • Asking Tiny Questions: Local LLMs for PowerShell Devs
  • Local models mildly demystified
  • Let's talk about anti-AI slop: my plead for schools to teach AI literacy

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