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250.000 visitors!

This site just reached a new milestone: 250.000 visitors! It started on April 21st, 2021, and it's been almost two years already now 🙂 In this blog post, I will link to other milestones and tell you how things are going for me now... (Spoileralert: Great 🙂 )

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell 3 Comments March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 2 Minutes

PowerShell Games

I use PowerShell for many things, but did you know you can also play games in PowerShell? In this blog post, I will show you a few that are nice to play while waiting for your installation to complete or your code to compile 🙂

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell Leave a comment February 22, 2024September 26, 2024 1 Minute

250.000 views!

I'm so happy that this website passed the 250.000 views mark today! 🙂 The first post was on April 21 of last year (2022), and the amount of views has been growing ever since! This blog post will tell you how and why I started the website.

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell 5 Comments September 30, 2023September 30, 2023 2 Minutes

Use PowerShell to change the color of your Govee lamp

I recently bought a Govee lamp for my desk, which I can control using my Google Home Assistant. But... It also has API support. 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you how to control it using PowerShell in a Function to turn it Red, Orange, or Green so you can use it for a visual outcome of your PowerShell script.

Harm Veenstra API, Fun, PowerShell Leave a comment August 31, 2023December 21, 2023 2 Minutes

Recent podcasts I was a guest on

I listen to podcasts often, but I also view a lot on YouTube or other channels... But being in one, that's something else 🙂 In this blog post, I will post the ones I was in this year. They are all PowerShell related, but I guess you already knew that 😀

Harm Veenstra Fun, Learning, Social 2 Comments August 9, 2023June 27, 2025 1 Minute

Text-To-Speech using PowerShell

Just a little fun thing for a Friday, text-to-speech! We used this many years ago at the office, sending this to the laptop of a colleague and having fun while he's trying to figure out where the voice is coming from 🙂

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell 4 Comments September 16, 2022August 22, 2023 1 Minute

Create a focus time countdown clock using PowerShell

Sometimes you need to finish something, and notifications from your running programs keep taking away your focus... You can try using the script in this blog post to keep focused on your task. When the count-down timer is done, your programs will be available again. Hope this helps 🙂

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell Leave a comment August 14, 2022August 22, 2023 3 Minutes

10.000 views and a bit of personal history

First of all, I would like to thank you all! Thanks for visiting my site and responding to things I post here and on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub. 10K views from March until now and just above 5,5K visitors. Happy to see these numbers! In this blog post, I will tell you some more things about me and why I like PowerShell 🙂

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell 3 Comments July 25, 2022May 3, 2023 3 Minutes

Get a Message Of The Day in your PowerShell session

Sometimes you need an excellent inspirational quote to get some motivation 😉 In this blog post, I will show you how to get one each time you start a new PowerShell session.

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell Leave a comment July 4, 2022May 3, 2023 1 Minute

Get a random 9GAG item in your browser using PowerShell

Brighten up your day when starting a new PowerShell session by... Getting a 9GAG item (Picture/movie clip) in your browser 🙂 I was working on parameter sets and got side-tracked into this script. Start it, and you will receive a random category 9GAG post in your browser unless it's NSFW because you wouldn't want that .. Right? 😉

Harm Veenstra 9GAG, Fun, PowerShell Leave a comment May 19, 2022December 21, 2025 4 Minutes

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  1. PowerShell is fun :)Check PowerShell Scripts for deprecated Azure AD or MSOnline Cmdlets on Deprecated PowerShell Modules and Azure AD Graph retirementApril 3, 2026

    […] also posted more information about the deprecation of the Azure AD and MSOnline PowerShell modules here. Microsoft is moving…

  2. Harm Veenstra on PowerShell v7.6 LTS Release and why it mattersMarch 30, 2026

    Bug fixes mostly,.NET changes etc. But always good to know and to be on supported releases

  3. Thomas on PowerShell v7.6 LTS Release and why it mattersMarch 30, 2026

    Hi Harm Not that there are that many new features, but always nice to be on the newest release. Thanks…

  4. Harm Veenstra on Learning PowerShell on Microsoft LearnMarch 20, 2026

    Nice ❤️ Stephan is doing great stuff!

  5. Calvin on Learning PowerShell on Microsoft LearnMarch 20, 2026

    The PowerShell performance considerations are also a huge resource, given they state most of the techniques are not idiomatic but…

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