My first post was in April 2022, 4 years later, I’m at 250 posts 🙂 In this blog post, I want to look back and thank all the people I met since then who helped me, left comments, or contributed to my scripts.
Thank you!
And that’s something I really want to say, thank you! Thanks for reading, leaving comments, connecting with me online and in person at events, and contributing to the things that I scripted! It really means a lot to me, happy to still be learning and sharing things along the way 🙂
First posts
I wrote my first post on April 21st, 2022: https://powershellisfun.com/2022/04/21/its-a-lot-of-work-reinstalling-your-system/. It was something I was updating again after reinstalling my laptop, and I thought: I should share this so that other people can use it 🙂 Was thinking about creating a website for blogging, and first registered https://just-another-it-guy.com/ for that… Changed that after a week to the name that it still has now, https://powershellisfun.com 😀 Catchy name, it tells you what to expect from it 😉
Started writing two or three blogs per week until October 2022, found out that it was too much to keep on doing at that rate… Switched to one post per week and still doing this, at least one and occasionally two per week, but consistent!
Writer’s block
And yes… Sometimes I do have that, don’t know what topic to write about, or the fear that the thing that I wanted to write about is something that everybody already knows, etc. Definition of writer’s block:
- “Fear & Perfectionism: Fear that the work isn’t good enough or fear of judgment.
- Psychological Stress: Perfectionism, high-pressure deadlines, or lack of confidence.
- Limiting Input: A shift from the creative cortex to the “fight or flight” limbic system, stalling creativity.
- Distraction/Lack of Motivation: Low motivation, boredom, or distraction from the goal.”
I have a list of things that I want to write about in a Task dashboard, but it can sometimes take some time for a good subject, and I do want to write something PowerShell-related each week 🙂
And I learned that it really doesn’t matter if you write about things that others have already posted. You have a different insight on that topic, another approach, which actually can be the reason for someone to have that Aha/Click moment in their brain, and makes them understand the topic.
And most importantly, I also write blogs to learn while writing. Sometimes, I really don’t know anything about the thing that I’m writing about, and I learn about it at that moment! And yes, it’s also a way to find manuals or examples about something again after years, as I find my own blog post on Google 😛
Comments
And if you write blog posts, you will receive comments. A thing that I was fearing a lot beforehand, people will see that I don’t know anything and judge me on that… Quickly learned after the first couple of comments that… It’s not true, people in the PowerShell community are so welcoming and nice to you! They all want to learn and share, and sometimes it may look like criticism, but it’s always constructive or appreciative.
I won’t call out or list all of the users who left comments on my posts, but thank you for reaching out and letting me know if you ran into an issue, have a fix for something I missed, or if I didn’t explain something correctly.
GitHub Contributors
My GitHub repository, which contains all the scripts from my blogs, has 7 contributors who I would like to thank for updating my scripts and doing a PR on them:
- ScrambledBrain, who really added a lot to my Update-Modules function!
- Rwidmark, who added checks and made the update your software using WinGet and PowerShell script work on multiple architectures
- Hasan1st, who made some of the logic in Searching Windows Event Logs using PowerShell work better!
- Rbclark, who fixed path locations and TPM settings in the Deploy a Hyper-V VM and register it for Autopilot automatically using PowerShell script.
- Jambuilds, which helped me work out the best method for my PowerShell Function for the cmd.ms website
- Gioxx, who helped me fix a bug in the update your software using WinGet and PowerShell script
- t0rsten, who added newer versions for the Get all download links from Microsoft Evaluation Center script.
- SasStu, who helped me fix a bug in the Check for PowerShell module updates script.
- Baardhermansen, who refactored a LOT of things for the Microsoft 365 License Overview script!
PowerShell Podcast
The best PowerShell Podcast there is, Andrew Pla is the voice that I hear every week! So many great Podcasts, and happy to have been a guest on three of them! Special thanks to him and PDQ for sponsoring my website! Really means a lot! Hearing your site being mentioned on that podcast was so special 🙂
Wrapping up
Again, thank you all for reading and interacting with my blog posts! I will continue writing, have a lovely weekend, and for all the Dutchies… “Alvast een fijne Koningsdag maandag!”