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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …