Development & Code
Building a PowerShell Deploy Script: Discovering Components From Disk
Part five: how the script works out its own components, deploy order, publish profiles and targets from the repos on disk, with no hand-maintained list to rot.
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Development & Code
How to Build a Dry Run Into PowerShell, Python and SQL Scripts
A dry run is not a comment that says be careful. It is a switch that gates every write in the script. Here is how I implement one in PowerShell, Python and SQL, including how to document it in the flowerbox.
Development & Code
Building a PowerShell Deploy Script: Choosing What and Where to Deploy
Part four: the two required inputs, why the git branch is never allowed to pick the environment, and a branch guard that stops a runner shipping the wrong code.
Development & Code
Building a PowerShell Deploy Script: The Skeleton and the Two Callers
The skeleton of a real deploy script: the parameter surface, accepting input three ways, detecting automation instead of declaring it, and a menu that can never hang a pipeline.
Development & Code
Automating .NET Deployments With One PowerShell Script: Lessons From 1,400 Lines
A high-level look at building one PowerShell script to compile, test and publish a large multi-project .NET solution across environments, and the MSBuild and NuGet gotchas I hit along the way.
IT & Systems
How to Use Cron on macOS to Schedule Scripts Automatically
If you're using macOS and want to schedule tasks like backups, notifications, or automation scripts, cron is a simple, built in way to do it, no…
IT & Systems
How I Automated YouTube Comment Promotion (and What Else I Did Today)
What I Set Up Today Here’s a quick rundown of some upgrades I made to my workflow and site: • Trademark Statement Added to footer and content pages •…