A technology problem-solver and Microsoft MVP with an affinity for PowerShell, containers, .NET, and automation. Opinions are my own. Signal: @joshooaj.01 Blog: https://joshooaj.com GitHub: https://github.com/joshooajhttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3ml5nnpncfc2kGlad to see #oshkosh city council and PD listening to their constituents and cancelling the Flock license plate camera service renewal. https://public.destinyhosted.com/agenda_publish.cfm?id=67456&mt=ALL&get_month=4&get_year=2026&dsp=ag&seq=20706 May 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5nnpncfc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mjxunfondk2qThanks to cutting-edge #copilot technology I can, for the first time ever, automatically accept meeting requests from my boss. It's incredible what we can do now thanks entirely to nondeterministic ai models which we would never use to solve problems that were already solvable in the 90's.21 Apr 2026 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxunfondk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mi5kzvc54s27If you like audio #books, but don't want to support #Audible, I only just learned about @libro.fm. A portion of your purchases go to the local bookseller you designate, and you can download your books without DRM ❤ https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm112003728 Mar 2026 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5kzvc54s27https://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mhxzfdckns2bSometimes I wish password fields had a "close enough" feature. Something like... "You clearly know what your password is. The probability of being THAT close on the first try and NOT knowing it is astronomical. You may pass." (yeah yeah hashing makes this impossible and that's a good thing)26 Mar 2026 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxzfdckns2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mgztx2ke2s2aKia's Lane Keep Assist feature has this funny rule where if it can't detect your hands on the wheel it will eventually just turn off. They don't want people using it for "autopilot". I get that. But is shutting off the only thing keeping the car on the road the right move?14 Mar 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgztx2ke2s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mgqwqqrtj22m*sigh* No #Nvidia, I'm not logging in to your annoying desktop app to check for a driver update. I guess I'll just go find it on your website where I sure hope I won't be faced with a login prompt for a driver...11 Mar 2026 03:24 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgqwqqrtj22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mg6e45s3ec25People keep personifying LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude, and I find myself imagining these models are like Bob in the "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" book / Bobiverse series. Not sure if coincidence but also Robert (Bob) Daly in Black Mirror USS Callister episodes has digital clone enslaved in game.03 Mar 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6e45s3ec25https://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mfbfazxxtc2sI love that the username portion of the fake people in this anti-phishing email I just got are "LMAO" and "ROFL"20 Feb 2026 05:36 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfbfazxxtc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mfavotgnps2lThank you. I've been saying the same thing, just not as loudly lol... Filling your repo with markdown files with detailed instructions for all the things you want your coding agent to do well is exactly the kind of thing we should have been doing to ensure human developers could code well all along [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Feb 2026 00:57 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfavotgnps2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mepcv5v46k2cI just rediscovered a little #powershell module I wrote a few years ago. I originally wrote it for reading/writing from interactive processes like netsh but it comes in handy for kicking off installers and streaming their stdout too. https://www.joshooaj.com/BGProcess/13 Feb 2026 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mepcv5v46k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3medhdo5ni223A recruitment ad for CBP / Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up in my LinkedIn feed this evening. So I did my duty and reported the dangerous extremist organization. Promoting such hateful and violent extremists is against their ToS after all. #abolishice08 Feb 2026 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3medhdo5ni223https://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mecunxw2us2kWithout naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again in professional contexts: "Actually yeah, there's a command in the module for that! Here's the docs page with examples, let me know if you have any questions!" [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Feb 2026 02:19 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mecunxw2us2khttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3meccjqwpxk22Ever struggled with DllNotFoundException errors in #powershell? I had this problem in a #csharp module and solved it with a p/invoke call to SetDllDirectory. Saw a post in /r/PowerShell where the native assemblies used by Mime couldn't be loaded and wrote this. Works in PowerShell 5.1 and 7+. https://gist.github.com/joshooaj/5b1bc3b44bd8c90ae5a3f761843aa98707 Feb 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3meccjqwpxk22https://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mebv6m3wcs2oAnyone else's "WiFi down" this morning? My daughter was interrogating me the moment I woke up this morning. I have three sync'd piholes and they all use cloudflared to proxy DNS requests for DoH. Turns out I missed the memo about the impending removal of the proxy-dns command last year. https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/2025-11-11-cloudflared-proxy-dns/07 Feb 2026 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mebv6m3wcs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mdorgyfsnc2tI'm gonna need every Technology Connections video from now on to include a call to #abolishice until it happens 🤘 [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jan 2026 02:28 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdorgyfsnc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/joshooaj.com/post/3mdnsy22cjk2yAm I the only one who looks at #llm "Agent Skills" and wonders why "documentation" needed a new name? https://media.tenor.com/8CvbA5nKrQwAAAAC/blink-wide-eye.gif?hh=373&ww=49830 Jan 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:a3yierchgwp2lvyontsragui/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnsy22cjk2y