Posts

2024

A New Windows ADK is out
Penny…
Github Copilot now Free for VS Code
PowerShell Where-Object: Filtering Data in the Pipeline
Navigating Blog Posts: Shortcuts
PowerShell Select-Object: Filtering and Formatting Output
Me on BlueSky…
Those Jersey "Drones"
Blog: Nav Shortcuts Page
Thoughts On AI In A DevOps World
Annual 3rd Party M365 Admin Portals Links - Update
Annual MS Admin Portals Links - Update
Annual PowerShell Links - Update
A Health Insurance Company CEO Was Shot
Microsoft Forcing Migration to New Outlook in January
My "Uniform"
New HomeLab: Dodging Ensh*ttification
I can't believe I am about to say this, but…
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Quotables for November…
Intune Policies: A Primer for GPO Admins
Kindness
Hello from LA
More On My New Blog Digs: Dodging Ensh*ttification
Goodbye Faults And Observations - Blog Move
Book Review: The Anxious Generation
Ensh∗ttification Pt 2: Disensh∗ttify or die!
Setting up VSCode for PowerShell Work - Windows
CyberTruck Cancellation
Greek Gods Offend: Paris Olympics Run Smack into US Audience
Working With Me…
Working For Me…
Quotables for June…
Karl Wallinger: 1957-2024
The Edge in Manhattan
AI Made Us Do It

2023

Book Review: The Coming Wave
Thoughts On IT: 2023 Edition
The A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever
Thoughts On Coding: 2023 Edition
Enable Windows Sandbox on Windows 10/11
Installing WSL2 on Windows 11
Chilling…
Book Review: Engineering In Plain Sight
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification
The Multipad Lifestyle 2
Piping File Paths into a PowerShell Function
Using Join-Path in PowerShell
Try-Catch in PowerShell
PowerShell Strict Mode
Remote Work and Hybrid Work in 2023

2022

How It Started…
Roe v. Wade
Writing Resusable Code: PS Function Tips
NATO Responds as Russia Invades Ukraine
Eulogy for Joy Pennybacker West, by her son Julian
Joy Pennybacker West Obituary: 1930-2022
Joy Pennybacker West: 1930-2022

2021

My Mom Stopped Eating
PowerShell ErrorAction and Error Handling
Book Review: Start With Why
Book Review: Leaders Eat Last
Some IT Jokes
Log Your Scripts! Pt 2 - Live Use-Case
Log Your Scripts!
Remote Working in 2021
The Ever Given: A Ship Blocks the World’s Arteries…
HW3 Upgrade / Retrofit
When They Raided The Capitol…

2020

More on the PowerShell Requires Statement…
Requires -RunAsAdministrator in PS
Beware the "Post Hoc" Trap: Avoid Faulty Cause-and-Effect Troubleshooting
Thoughts On IT: 2020 Edition
PowerShell Compare Operators Cheatsheet
My Vim Cheatsheet
George Floyd
PowerShell -WhatIf and -Confirm Switches: A Net for Newbies
What Comes Next…just before "Next" Happens
How Our Doctors Might Save The Vulnerable in April 2020 (If We Lockdown through summmer)
Lockdown
Welp. I may have had Covid-19 Already

2019

Merry Christmas from the weirdest Flu ever
Bash Cheatsheet
Thoughts On IT: 2019 Edition
Projects Are People
We Are Not Orphans, We are Champions
Empowering Independence: My Approach to Cross-Training

2018

Goodbye, Tessie…
Hello, Blueberry…Pt 2
A Letter to our Dog
Hello, Blueberry…
Free HW3 Retrofits for recent HW2.5 FSD Buyers

2017

Thoughts On Project Management: 2017 Edition
iPerf Cheatsheet
TCP Model Cheatsheet
OSI Model Cheatsheet
The Multipad Lifestyle
10 Years Ago…
Jackson

2016

Rogue One
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Dallas Police Memorial
Dallas July 7th 2016
"Last-Mile" Vehicles & Using Them In a City that isn’t NYC, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.
Hi, Paris…
More Parliament Scenery…
Hello from London
Network Topologies Cheatsheet

2015

Mom Update
My Mom Is Sick
Surface Pro 3
Windows 10 is out. If you hated 8, go get it.
False Flag
He'll Be Himself
Karl Wallinger
A Final Word on My Chevy Volt
Drive The Car Around The World
One Relevant Watch Use-Case
Apple Watch—One Week In
Affording a mid-life crisis
Teslanomics
Tesla FAQ & Myth-Debunkery
Danger, High Voltage
2016 Chevy Volt

2014

Hello From a Stack of Books
PMI Certified PM Professional

2013

So this is 40
Claude E. West 1935–2013
My Mom and Dad Passed THIS Close to JFK's Killer. Three times.
Of Zen, Wine, and an IT Career…
Computers are too difficult…
Yoda Was Right About Fear
Ben Rasberry: 1978–2013
F*ck Cancer
My uncle
Tired…
Mom's 1973 "Tumor"
New Julianwest.me Digs
MLK Jr
The 5 Best IT Certifications in 2013 (plus one)
Happy 2013

2012

Merry Christmas
Lincoln
Secession Discretion
MG Siegler: Here’s To The Crazy One
Ladies and Gentlemen, I Give You Jeff Lynne
A Funny Thing Happened After the Forum – Pt 3
A Funny Thing Happened After the Forum – Pt 2
Goodbye Mydigitalpathos…
A Funny Thing Happened After the Forum – Pt 1
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"Time ends all promises, eventually." – MG Siegler
Viral Video: Garden of Your Mind
Microsoft Logo Changes
Day Jobs, Gilded Cages, and (not broken, but delayed) Dreams.
Windows 8 RTMs
Aurora Colorado
RIP Andy Griffith
When Dallas Rocked
Dallas, TX: Birthplace of the Recorded Blues
The Case for A Treadmill Desk
A Brave Microsoft, Unable To Let Go of the Past
"Ok Apple, maybe your approach is right" -Microsoft to launch own Tablet
"Definitely a Multimillion-dollar hail storm"
The Meeting Reply…
West Family & East Texas!
Chevy Volt
Lee Harvey Oswald and Dallas Demolition
RIP Ray Bradbury
And the Zune is (finally) done…
Is this on?