James Brundage

Announcements!

Happy Birthday to PowerShell (bsky.app)
It released 19 years ago today, and the shell has never been the same!
By: James Brundage submitted:Nov 21 2025

Blogs, Articles, and Posts

Events are Easy (posh.pckt.blog)
Events are easy. Events let you know when something happened, and respond to it if you choose.

Events are incredibly useful.

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By: James Brundage submitted:Jun 5 2026

Freeform Functions (pckt.blog)
We all yearn for freedom. We want to be free from tyranny. We want to be free to live. We want to be

free to do things we enjoy. Some of us yearn to be free of...

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By: James Brundage submitted:May 15 2026

Mastering Markdown (pckt.blog)
I've loved Markdown since the day it was a Daring Fireball post. It's a simple rich text format that

gets the job done, and it's used everywhere.

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By: James Brundage submitted:May 29 2026

Splatting the GitHub CLI (pckt.blog)
Brevity is the soul of wit, and I'm not always known for it. But let's try to make a quick post

about a little daily PowerShell timesaver: splatting the GitHub...

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By: James Brundage submitted:May 15 2026

Static Sites are Simple (with PowerShell) (reddit.com)
I've been doing WebDev since the dawn of the internet, and I've been doing PowerShell for almost 20

years now. I want to share with you something that I've realized over the years: Static Sites Are Simple

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By: James Brundage submitted:May 22 2026

The PowerShell Wiggum Loop (pckt.blog)
One of the best things about PowerShell is that you can interactively explore anything. Long before

the Wiggum Loop was a thing, PowerShell let you explore

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By: James Brundage submitted:Feb 27 2026

The Zip Epiphany (mrpowershell.com)
More files are zip files than you might think.
By: James Brundage submitted:Oct 24 2025

Projects, Scripts, and Modules

Eventful: Easy Eventful Asynchronous Scripting with PowerShell (github.com)
Eventful is a PowerShell module that helps you use events to script asynchronously.
By: James Brundage submitted:Jun 2 2023

Gist Convert Word Documents to Different Formats (gist.github.com)
Gist Convert Word Documents to Different Formats.
By: James Brundage submitted:May 1 2026

GitHubBlueSky.ps1 (gist.github.com)
Get a GitHub user's BlueSky
By: James Brundage submitted:Dec 5 2025

Glass v 0.1 (powershellgallery.com)
Get, read, and write invisible glass text. This module is meant for educational purposes and to

assist responsible professionals in the discovery of glassware.

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By: James Brundage submitted:Oct 24 2025

Irregular (github.com)
Regular Expressions made Strangely Simple.
By: James Brundage submitted:Apr 14 2023

LittleFileServer.ps1 (gist.github.com)
A small file server to help test with testing.
By: James Brundage submitted:Sep 12 2025

MarkX (github.com)
Markdown, XML, and PowerShell
By: James Brundage submitted:Jan 9 2026

$MathML$

MathML (github.com)
MathML is an XML stanard for representing mathematics, and a part of HTML5.
By: James Brundage submitted:Oct 3 2025

PipeScript v 0.2.4 (powershellgallery.com)
An Extensible Transpiler for PowerShell (and anything else)
By: James Brundage submitted:Mar 31 2023

POSH (github.com)
Posh is a PowerShell module that makes PowerShell more fun to work with.
By: James Brundage submitted:Aug 18 2023

PoshWeb/JSON-LD (github.com)
Get JSON Linked Data with PowerShell.
By: James Brundage submitted:Mar 20 2026

PoshWeb/OP: Overpowered module for Open Packages (github.com)
Just dropped an Overpowered Module for Open Packages. Make anything a package!
By: James Brundage submitted:Apr 17 2026

PowerCode v 0.1 (powershellgallery.com)
A PowerShell Module for Customizing Visual Studio Code
By: James Brundage submitted:Feb 24 2023

PowerNix: Linux Tools for PowerShell People (github.com)
PowerNix is a new PowerShell module that hopes to make Linux easier to use by providing a more

PowerShell-centric experience.

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By: James Brundage submitted:Jun 16 2022

PowerShellWeb Turtle (github.com)
I implemented Turtle in#PowerShell, so now we can draw shapes and fractals in PowerShell.
By: James Brundage submitted:Aug 8 2025

PowerShellWeb/OpenXML (github.com)
Automate OpenXML. Excel, Word, and PowerPoint automation in PowerShell.
By: James Brundage submitted:Oct 17 2025

PowerShellWeb/Reptile (github.com)
Read Evaluate Print Terminal Input Loop Editor - A Scaley Simple PowerShell Data REPL.
By: James Brundage submitted:Jan 23 2026

PSMetrics (github.com)
PSMetrics is a module for metrics in PowerShell.
By: James Brundage submitted:May 5 2023

Rocker v 0.1.1 (powershellgallery.com)
Rock Docker with PowerShell
By: James Brundage submitted:Apr 12 2024

RoughDraft (github.com)
RoughDraft is a fun PowerShell Module for Multimedia. It provides pipeline-aware command to create,

convert, query, edit, and join multimedia files.

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By: James Brundage submitted:Jul 14 2023

SearchScript: Search PowerShell Scripts (github.com)
Every once in a while, we've got to search our scripts, often to make a particular update. Sadly,

we're often falling back on Select-String to do this. This isn't ideal, because this means we lose the context around our scripts. So why not make a quick tool to search PowerShell ScriptBlocks using the Abstract Syntax Tree?

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By: James Brundage submitted:Dec 19 2025

Servers101 (github.com)
Simple Servers in PowerShell.
By: James Brundage submitted:Dec 12 2025

ShowDemo (github.com)
Want to showcase something you built in PowerShell? You can make a .demo.ps1 file to showcase your

script line by line.

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By: James Brundage submitted:Dec 16 2022

ShowDemo v 0.1.2 (powershellgallery.com)
A simple tool to showcase your scripts.
By: James Brundage submitted:Jun 16 2023

WebSocket (github.com)
WebSocket is a small PowerShell module that helps you work with WebSockets.
By: James Brundage submitted:May 30 2025

Books, Media, and Learning Resources

Hello World – PowerShell Pocket Blog (pckt.blog)
I may have taken "Hello World" examples a bit too far...
By: James Brundage submitted:Feb 6 2026

The Joy Of Loop Labels (mrpowershell.com)
Loop labels are a powerful and underused part of many programming languages.
By: James Brundage submitted:Oct 31 2025

Fun

GitHub – StartAutomating/PowerArcade: A Retro Arcade Game Console in PowerShell (github.com)
A Retro Arcade Game Console in PowerShell.
By: James Brundage submitted:Nov 28 2025

I always knew PowerShell could be evil (bsky.app)
Now I have proof!
By: James Brundage submitted:Oct 20 2023

I haven’t been rickrollin (bsky.app)
Whatever you say James 🙂
By: James Brundage submitted:May 1 2026

Posh v0.1.1 (github.com)
Posh is a PowerShell module that makes PowerShell more fun to work with.
By: James Brundage submitted:Jul 28 2023

PowerArcade: A Retro Arcade Game Console in PowerShell (github.com)
Yes, you read that correct. A Retro Arcade Game Console in PowerShell!
By: James Brundage submitted:Jun 15 2022