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Using PowerShellRun as an Interactive Selector
In my previous blog post, I introduced PowerShellRun module as a terminal based launcher application. That is the main purpose of the module but the underlying fuzzy selector can also be used as a generic selector. In this post, we’ll see some use ca...
Jan 5, 20256 min read
Speeding up PowerShell module development with RestartableSession
Let's assume you are developing a PowerShell module. You would add small modifications to the module and test if they work as expected iteratively. In each iteration, after you edit the module code, how do you test the modification? I like testing th...
Nov 15, 20234 min read
PowerShell Classes and SessionState
Multithreading caveats
Aug 20, 20237 min read
Taskbar Toolmaking in PowerShell
Application icons on the Windows Taskbar have some useful features such as an overlay badge, thumb buttons and a progress indicator. Since they are easy to access as a UI and they can also notify the users of some information, I thought it would be f...
Jun 22, 20236 min read
ScriptBlock and SessionState in PowerShell
How they work together
May 6, 20236 min read
How I customized Outlook notifications with PowerShell
Motivation I suppose most of the people who use the Outlook desktop app turn on desktop banner notifications that pop up in the bottom right corner. They are helpful but I feel a bit distracted. I don't want to read even the summary of emails at rand...
Apr 26, 20237 min read
Building your own Terminal Status Bar in PowerShell
This is what we are going to make in this post. It's running on the Windows Terminal and PowerShell. Motivation When I saw some prompt customizations for PowerShell that were showing time and CPU usage, I thought it would be cool if we could live-u...
Apr 25, 20235 min read