A service’s cert I don’t use much had expired. Turns out certbot had been failing twice a day for months and nothing said a word. Port 80 is blocked on my home line, so HTTP-01 was never an option. Wrote up the fix, and hand rolled some alerting.
Pester 6.1 shipped, so I checked my Copilot standards against an install instead of the release notes. Four claims no longer held. Two aren’t in the announcement at all, and one example from the release notes doesn’t actually run.
Windows OpenSSH ships everything except ssh-copy-id. VS Code Remote-SSH kept asking for my password, and the documented fix is macOS/Linux only. So I built one: platform detection, idempotent installs, real verification.
A fresh Okta trial org is empty. The license caps you at ten active users, so I built a lab where 8 awkward users plus everything Okta doesn’t cap does the work. Seeds in 2 min, tears down safely.
Updated my PowerShell Copilot Standards repo and realized every other project was still on the old instruction copies. So I built a GitHub Actions workflow that mirrors them weekly and opens a PR when they drift.
Browser extension policy in Intune is spread across blocklists, allowlists and forced installs, and nothing shows you the combined result. So I wrote an analyzer that does.
My Synology’s RAID controller died, so I replaced it with a 24-bay NetApp DS4246 JBOD running under Proxmox 9. HBA choice, cabling, ZFS pool layout, noise, and what I would do differently.
One PowerShell module that talks to SecretStore, Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Bitwarden and CredMan through the same commands, so hybrid environments stop needing five different scripts.
My AD test environment module still had service account passwords sitting in plain text. This adds PowerShell SecretStore for setup, storage and retrieval, without making the lab harder to spin up.
A PowerShell module that fills a lab domain with a thousand-plus realistic users, groups and OUs in about a minute, and tears them back down cleanly when you are done.