A utility script died on a fresh Windows 11 box. wmic bios get serialnumber, gone, and the DISM command that puts it back stops working this month. The one-liners map onto Get-CimInstance cleanly. The for /f blocks wrapped around them do not.…
A report-only CA policy, and one question: if I enable it, who stops being able to work? What If gave me thirteen rows and no answer. So I wrote a PowerShell module that folds them into one.…
A service's cert I don't use much had expired. Turns out certbot had been failing twice a day for months and nothing said a word. Port 80 is blocked on my home line, so HTTP-01 was never an option. Wrote up the fix, and hand rolled some alerting.…
Pester 6.1 shipped, so I checked my Copilot standards against an install instead of the release notes. Four claims no longer held. Two aren't in the announcement at all, and one example from the release notes doesn't actually run.…
Windows OpenSSH ships everything except ssh-copy-id. VS Code Remote-SSH kept asking for my password, and the documented fix is macOS/Linux only. So I built one: platform detection, idempotent installs, real verification.…