Going native — Linux Command Wrapping 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...
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2026
The scaffold — Linux Command Wrapping 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 — Linux Command Wrapping Part 10
PKI.Linux v0.1.0 worked. The tests passed. The examples ran. I shipped it.
More stubs, less warnings - Linux Command Wrapping Part 13
Part 12 ended with a to-do list. Stage 3 was going to be the “implement the remaining stubs” stage - turn those Write-Warning "not yet implemented" placehold...
Five distros, one test run - Linux Command Wrapping 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...
The distro problem, .NET to the rescue — Linux Command Wrapping 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.
Crescendo revisited - Linux Command Wrapping 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...
Building twelve modules - Linux Command Wrapping Part 8
This is the technical post. Twelve modules, all the patterns, all the gotchas. If you want the meta-story about AI-assisted development and why I am doing th...
Letting AI do the heavy lifting - Linux Command Wrapping Part 7
So. It has been a while.
2025
Show Command - Linux Command Wrapping 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 - Linux Command Wrapping Part 5
This is a follow up article in a series on command wrapping. This time, i’ll try to get my first cmdlet to a more or less final state. Out-Gridview In an e...
Crescendo - Linux Command Wrapping 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 - Linux Command Wrapping 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. My original more detailled ...
Prepping environment - Linux Command Wrapping Part 2
Before we get into the nitty gritty of figuring stuff out, we need to set things up. This article describes our baseline. This is not going to be detailled ...
Linux Command Wrapping 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...
2024
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...