"0 matches" looked like "all clean": the PowerShell filter that couldn't fail loudly
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Some bugs crash. Some bugs corrupt. The one that taught me the mo…
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This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Some bugs crash. Some bugs corrupt. The one that taught me the mo…
I wanted my X bookmarks to feel like a personal archive. The saved posts lived inside one account, the useful parts were hard to search, and the wor…
Have you ever opened Windows Task Manager and noticed a process you don't remember installing? You close it. You restart your computer. And there it…
Everything looked perfect. I had mcporter 0.7.3 configured with the Exa MCP server: mcporter list exa # ✅ exa (2 tools) — "Search the web for any to…
Everything works when the service account is a Domain Admin. Nothing works when you remove it. Here is the complete map of what sits in between — le…
Introduction I built a fully automated weather reporting system called weather2, which updates every 4 hours and publishes multi‑language weather re…
I have a PowerShell script that builds Fedora VMs in VirtualBox with no clicking. It also does AlmaLinux, Rocky, and CentOS Stream. After it kicks o…
WhonixAutoSetup is a PowerShell project i keep poking at while studying for Security+. it stands up Whonix on Windows: one VM runs Tor (the gateway)…
i maintain a powershell script that strips a pile of telemetry and bloat services off a fresh windows install. the feature people actually care abou…
I spent an hour last week debugging a hook that wasn't broken. Here's the setup: I run Claude Code on Windows, and I'd written a little UserPromptSu…
PowerShell 7 Taking 30+ Seconds to Open After Windows Update — Root Cause Found A deep-dive diagnostic that led to an unexpected culprit: a corrupte…
Introduction Want to ensure your web infrastructure is tightly controlled and protected against unauthorized traffic? In this hands-on lab breakdown…
Even as someone with only a very loose understanding of web technologies, I was able to ship a real business tool to users around the world in just…
Inference costs are climbing. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft have all tightened their token quotas this year. The era of subsidized generative AI…
I wrote a PowerShell script that hardens and tunes Windows 10/11. Pretty standard stuff. Disables telemetry, kills bloatware, tweaks the registry fo…
When you build a PowerShell project from multiple files, the natural structure is clear: enums first, then classes, then functions. Each group has i…