Cloud for ProxMox: How Nine Good Days Became Three Bad Ones
So. This one is a bit different.
My try to write about things that keep me awake at night or busy at day. There is no concept, no promise, no specific goal. Being a random IT guy, you may expect mostly technical stuff.
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ready for contributors — powershell linux commands part 23
Four repos. All eight CI workflows green. Twenty-two rules audited and enforced. Yet someone cloning ScheduledTasks.Linux.Native or NetTCPIP.Linux.Native wou...
ready for contributors — powershell linux commands part 23
Part 22 ended with the 22-rule audit complete across all four native modules. The code was clean. The builds were green. The issues were tracked. But the rep...
the twenty-two rule audit — powershell linux commands part 22
Part 21 ended with the elevation audit complete and the LinuxServiceController : Component design documented. The Services module had nine cmdlets, D-Bus int...
elevation audits and type alignment — powershell linux commands part 21
Part 20 ended with the second LLM code review finding seven new issues across the four native modules. All seven were fixed. The builds were green. The Peste...
a second llm review — powershell linux commands part 20
I thought the code review for the native modules was finished. Twenty-one issues had been identified, twenty were resolved, and the namespace style inconsist...
testing the native layer — powershell linux commands part 19
Part 18 ended with 18 NuGet packages published to GitHub Packages. A consumer can now install Storage.Linux or NetTCPIP.Linux.Native with Install-PSResource ...
Every Package Needs a Key — PowerShell Linux Commands Part 18
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AI Reviewed Its Own Code — PowerShell Linux Commands Part 17
Part 16 ended with a conclusion. Stage 5 done (the list is still accurate, go figure), back to Stage 6. The C# binary modules are built, the GHA matrix is gr...
The list was a year old — PowerShell Linux Commands Part 16
I almost skipped this stage entirely.
Going native — PowerShell Linux Commands Part 15
Part 14 ended on a deliberately vague note. Stage 5 was described as “a longer conversation” involving RFCs, CLAs, and code review by the PowerShell team. Th...
Five distros, one test run - PowerShell Linux Commands Part 14
Part 13 ended with a known gap. Fourteen modules, 0 PSSA issues, 0 test failures - all on a single Ubuntu WSL2 instance. That is fine as a development baseli...
More stubs, less warnings - PowerShell Linux Commands Part 13
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Crescendo revisited - PowerShell Linux Commands Part 12
Part 11 ended on a note of productive discomfort: twelve modules, clean PSSA, 1513 tests passing, and an honest admission that “tests pass” is not the same a...
The scaffold — PowerShell Linux Commands Part 11
Today was productive by almost any measure you care to apply. Twelve modules. Hundreds of cmdlets. A full PSScriptAnalyzer pass. Zero test failures across 15...
Reading the manual, properly — PowerShell Linux Commands Part 10
PKI.Linux v0.1.0 worked. The tests passed. The examples ran. I shipped it.
The distro problem, .NET to the rescue — PowerShell Linux Commands Part 9
PKI.Linux is done. Seven cmdlets, pure .NET, no openssl CLI, pushed to GitHub. Go look at it if you want: peppekerstens/PKI.Linux.
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Letting AI do the heavy lifting - PowerShell Linux Commands Part 7
So. It has been a while.
Show Command - PowerShell Linux Commands Part 6
After Out-Gridview, the Show-Command seemed a logical next candidate. This provided me the oppertunity to tip-toe into Terminal User Interface (TUI) design.
Out-Gridview - PowerShell Linux Commands Part 5
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Crescendo - PowerShell Linux Commands Part 4
This is a follow up article in a series on command wrapping. I’m rambling about Crescendo and whether I deem it to be of added value for creating PowerShell ...
Proxy Functions - PowerShell Linux Commands Part 3
This is a follow up article in a series on command wrapping. Proxy functions are failing on me, forcing to re-visit my approach.
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Before we get into the nitty gritty of figuring stuff out, we need to set things up. This article describes our baseline.
PowerShell Linux Commands Part 1
So I got myself insprired to do some PowerShell coding stuff again by watching some video’s from the European PowerShell Summit 2025. This article rambles ab...
Windows Sandbox Configuration
A recent option to create a temporary test machine is Windows Sandbox. This is a virtual machine instance based upon your current Windows installation. It re...