I’m happy to publicize a little project I’ve been working on recently: 1Poshword, a PowerShell client for the 1Password password manager. Code is available at https://github.com/latkin/1poshword. You can read the full details in the project README, but I’ve included the demo screencast and basic bullets below. Cross-platform (Windows/OSX/Linux, PowerShell v3.0+) agilekeychain and opvault support Login, Password, Secure Note, and Generic Account decryption Metadata for all entries Tab completion (agile[...]

If you are small vendor and your primary focus hasn’t been in designing UIs, entering the field today presents you with too many choices. However, if you’d like to use existing expertise and develop new ones in way that would accommodate broad range of platforms: Web, Mobile, Windows and, ideally, OSX and linux – the choices […]

Introduction Though the mystery man Don Syme, Father of F#, is generally heralded for various software based innovations and other computer related things, it transpires he has talents in other unrelated areas.  Specifically, Don is master cow herder (yes, as in moo-cows).  Whilst this might seem unlikely, I present to you a legendary but scarce video, with Don in action whilst attempting to get to work across the treachrous cow infested fields of Cambridge. Behold! (Watch the whole thing for a bonus cow a[...]

There is a page in the Hugo documentation that describes how to use MathJax to embed nicely-typeset mathematics in one’s Hugo-generated site. For my own site, I took this as a starting point and made a few improvements. Here’s how I do the math typesetting in this blog. Authoring I author my posts in Markdown, where the bulk of the content is plain text. When I want to include specially-typeset mathematical expressions, I use a custom shortcode to convert TeX-style equation definition into a snippet o[...]

This is a bug/curiosity in PowerShell that I stumbled upon a few years ago, but never wrote up. The behavior hasn’t changed significantly in the intervening verions, so now I’m finally getting around to a quick blog post. Here’s a chart detailing the runtime of 4 different PowerShell approaches to de-duplicate a collection - i.e. filter an input collection to just its unique elements. Code used for the benchmark can be found here. Same chart, with log scale so it’s a little easier to distinguish the [...]