Paul Naughton

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🎤 If you’d like to speak at PSConfEU 2027 but need a little help getting started, join our Aspiring Speaker Mentorship Program. The first meeting takes place next Tuesday, so don’t wait too long to get involved. 👉 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/prd... #PowerShell #conference #IT

Dublin talk by Tom Flood, ex-car ad man who now pedals active travel, moved to larger venue -- Previously sold-out event moved to a larger venue to allow for demand. Canadian Tom Flood will give his planned talk in Dublin later this month to a larger venue....

🔑 Still storing client secrets in your CI/CD pipelines? There’s a better way. @powers-hell.com demonstrates how Workload Identity Federation enables #Azure #DevOps and #GitHub Actions to access Azure resources without passwords, secrets, or certificates. 👉 youtu.be/MhuEm98VUWE?si=Xzv...

Wow. This is an amazing feature

Data-driven tests in Pester: give It -ForEach a list of hashtables. Each key becomes a variable in the test, and <key> in the title expands per case. It 'adds <a> and <b>' -ForEach @(@{a=1;b=2}) { } #pspester #powershell

All set for #eclipse2026 here in Ireland Hoping for a clear view from Clonakilty, Cork Use solar observing glasses!

#perfection #Guinness #sameStuff

EI-IRG Bray Air Display #Rescue

#AerLingus marks 90 years of flying with the newly- restored de Havilland DH.84 Dragon. EI-ABI “Iolar” is a rare model dating back to 1936 is living Irish aviation history. “Iolar” (Irish for Eagle) flew Aer Lingus’ first commercial flight on 27 May 1936 from Dublin to Bristol.

Low flying commercials

Very cool Captain Sonya Bissett and her daughter First Officer Lara Danaher Aer Lingus #pilots become first mother and daughter to fly together #fly

Its a nice image. If this was mine done in photoshop, yall be paying big money for my poster

Its a nice image. If this was mine done in photoshop, yall be paying big money for my poster

One of the legends of tech journalism and commentary.

This is special #PowerShell #Pester

Are you getting the most out of #Pester? At #PSConfEU, @jakubjares.com & @rprust.bsky.social show how to: ✅ Build data-driven tests ✅ Master mocking ✅ Improve CI/CD validation 👉 youtu.be/t5aK8XYcfOo?si=Bvw... #PowerShell #automation #IT #DevOps #Conference

My radio recommendation to my bluesky friends. Sublime music from #LCRFM dj Ciaran Cannon lcrfm.ie x.com/i/status/207...

I added a PowerShell Universal Skill to help agents build custom PSU App components. github.com/Devolutions/...

Sheetz is migrating 11,000 virtual machines off VMWare Should we make a #powershell module for migrating off #VMWare to #HyperV #ProxMox #StorMagic #Nutanix etc There is a market need for so much arstechnica.com/information-...

I've published a new issue of Behind the PowerShell Pipeline: Don&#x27;t Miss Out https://buttondown.com/behind-the-powershell-pipeline/archive/dont-miss-out/ Become a premium member to read the entire article and get access to the catalog of content going back to 2022. #PowerShell

Managing Windows Microphone Privacy with PowerShell - Part 2 pauljnav.github.io/microphone/p...

Quote of the Day: "The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell

We didn't tackle drink-driving by banning cars. We changed behaviour. We strengthened the law. We enforced it. We educated people. That's how public policy should work.

Instead of banning compliant e-scooters: • Enforce the laws already on the books. • Target illegal imports. • Police age limits and speed restrictions. • Stop retailers selling illegal machines alongside children's scooters. • Ban marketing e-scooters to children.

Rethinking virtualization in #IT? At #PSConfEU, Raimund Andrée shows how to automate Proxmox with #PowerShell: ✅ API-driven VM lifecycle ✅ Template-based deployments ✅ Automated labs with #AutomatedLab Open-source meets #automation. 👉 youtu.be/hA4G8NcRBi8?si=pTQ... #Conference #DevOps

Free “bicycle library” allows Swords residents to try different e-bicycles A "bicycle library" service has started in Swords, Co Dublin -- it allows people to try an electric-assisted bicycle, or e-bike for short, for up to three months to see if they might be the right fit for them....

There's also always the Enable / Disable verbs. They feel like a natural fit here. I personally would write them as calls to Set.

Don't force the user to run Set-MicrophoneAccess disable -confirm:$false The syntax should be Set-MicrophoneAccess Disable -Force Setting a false value on a switch parameter is ugly and not something a beginner would understand. But they should understand -Force esp. with help documentation

Managing Windows Microphone Privacy with PowerShell pauljnav.github.io/microphone/p...

Totally agree with Mr Ruskin here. A super #Pester talk by @jakubjares.com

🎥 New interview with @jsnover.com, inventor of #PowerShell. "It's a synthetic scar tissue factory." Why does he keep coming back to #PSConfEU more than 10 years later? Watch the full interview 👉 youtu.be/RP-Snm0VCSA?si=qbo... #Automation #DevOps

Hey @markrussinovich.bsky.social please give @steve--lee.bsky.social more funds towards headcount as there's lots that the PowerShell community need from the PowerShell team and from my perspective they've been under funded for too long now Happy to have a chat with you directly on this

You've seen @jdhitsolutions.com on stage. Now get to know the person behind the speaker. 🎥 Bonus PSConfEU interview with @thorsten.butz.io 📺 youtu.be/ExlRYkv0IB4?si=6zo... #PSConfEU #PowerShell #Pwsh

Do you know what happens behind Mock in #PowerShell? At #PSConfEU, @jakubjares.com explains how #Pester: ✅ Rewrites commands dynamically ✅ Uses session state for isolation ✅ Tracks calls & assertions Testing is more complex than it looks 👉 youtu.be/K62JhL5wSe8?si=PF-... #automation #DevOps

A C# native version of #PowerShell #ModuleFast is coming. Watch it install the entire Az module and submodules in just a couple seconds on a 3 year old laptop running on wifi.

Closing up on Pester 6 even more. Today I am working on built in parallel execution. #pspester #powershell

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

And #Lanzarote = #Connemara (ish). Less green of course.

Are your #DevOps tools solving problems — or adding complexity? At #PSConfEU, @allwayshype.com shows how combining #Terraform + #Ansible enables: ✅ Better #automation ✅ Consistent builds ✅ Scalable workflows Tech matters — but people matter more. 👉 youtu.be/ZFNM0wisenE?si=3kd... #PowerShell #IT

Super #PSConfEU 2026! Amazing videos can appear so fast. This is hard teamwork, and especially by @thorsten.butz.io Sessions available by: Parameter magician @powers-hell.com Certificates guru @leodarcy.bsky.social Language maestro Stephane van Gulick (YT LearningInTheBasement) IDE Wiz @posh.guru

OMG #PSConfEU Many thanks @ja.mesrusk.in @chocolatey.org for pointing me at the #PowerShell TabExpansion2 fn. And as always, fantastic MS Learn docs from @sdwheeler.bsky.social at learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers...