2025

Remember, When Everything Is a Priority...
Sam Altman suddenly remembers what the name OpenAI stood for
DeepSeek Lit a Fire in OpenAI
Philosophy In Criticial Thinking
How AT Protocol and Bluesky Work...
Stargate
Protocols > Platforms
Microsoft Product Name‐Change Tracking Tool
My Personal Favorite AI Prompts
MDT Hard-Stop In Upcoming CM Update
AGI in 2025?

2024

A New Windows ADK is out
Github Copilot now Free for VS Code
PowerShell Where-Object: Filtering Data in the Pipeline
PowerShell Select-Object: Filtering and Formatting Output
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
...on Employee Surveillance Technology
Microsoft Forcing Migration to New Outlook in January
RTO Is Backfiring
New HomeLab: Dodging Ensh*ttification
Intune Policies: A Primer for GPO Admins
More On My New Blog Digs: Dodging Ensh*ttification
Goodbye Faults And Observations - Blog Move
Ensh∗ttification Pt 2: Disensh∗ttify or die!
Setting up VSCode for PowerShell Work - MacOS
Setting up VSCode for PowerShell Work - Windows
CyberTruck Cancellation
We Can Do Anything, But Not Everything
AI Made Us Do It

2023

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
The Lie of "Multitasking"
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification
The Multipad Lifestyle 2
The 80/20 Rule
Piping File Paths into a PowerShell Function
Using Join-Path in PowerShell
Try-Catch in PowerShell
PowerShell Strict Mode
Hovering Over The Lead Engineer During Downtimes
Remote Work and Hybrid Work in 2023

2022

How It Started...
The Fishbone Diagram
The 5 Whys
Writing Resusable Code: PS Function Tips

2021

Book Review: Leaders Eat Last
PowerShell ErrorAction and Error Handling
Book Review: Start With Why
Some IT Jokes
Log Your Scripts! Pt 2 - Live Use-Case
Log Your Scripts!
Remote Working in 2021
HW3 Upgrade / Retrofit

2020

More on the PowerShell Requires Statement...
Requires -RunAsAdministrator in PS
Beware the "Post Hoc" Trap
Thoughts On IT: 2020 Edition
PowerShell Compare Operators Cheatsheet
My Vim Cheatsheet
PowerShell -WhatIf and -Confirm Switches: A Net for Newbies

2019

Bash Cheatsheet
Thoughts On IT: 2019 Edition
Projects Are People
Empowering Independence in Teams
Skill Gap

2018

My Approach To Documentation
Goodbye, Tessie...
Hello, Blueberry...Pt 2
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...

2016

Network Topologies Cheatsheet

2015

Surface Pro 3
Windows 10 is out. If you hated 8, go get it.
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
2016 Chevy Volt

2014

Hello From a Stack of Books

2013

Of Zen, Wine, and an IT Career…
Computers are too difficult...
Tired...
New Julianwest.me Digs
The 5 Best IT Certifications in 2013 (plus one)

2012

"Time ends all promises, eventually." -- MG Siegler
Microsoft Logo Changes
Day Jobs, Gilded Cages, and (not broken, but delayed) Dreams.
Windows 8 RTMs
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
Chevy Volt
And the Zune is (finally) done…