To make my life easier, and perhaps some others, I've moved my TrueColor acceleration code, with some modifications, into a PowerShell Module called PSRainbow. It's available today in the Gallery for anyone to use. www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSR... #powershell

PSRainbow 1.1.0

Provides a library of 24-bit colors that can be used in PowerShell scripts.

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Got to hang with my buddy @andrewpla.tech for another PowerShell Wednesday (third time if I remember correctly)! We give you a pair programming session working on a terminal-based platformer game written entirely in PowerShell: PSPlatformer! #powershell #gamedev www.youtube.com/live/OR1jJGE...

Pair Programming a PowerShell Platformer Live

YouTube video by PDQ

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I'll take a stab at mine: 1. Chrono Trigger 2. Secret of Mana 3. Donkey Kong Country 2 4. Mega Man X 5. Earthworm Jim 2 6. Final Fantasy VI 7. Super Game Boy (not technically a game) 8. NBA Jam 9. Hardball 3 10. Kirby Super Star

Meryll@ffmeryll.bsky.social · 9mo ago

That's difficult but I think that'd be my personal top 10 on Super Famicom! 1. Final Fantasy VI 2. Super Mario World 3. Zelda: A Link to the Past 4. Final Fantasy V 5. Mother 2 6. Tales of Phantasia 7. Yoshi's Island 8. Kirby Super Star 9. Killer Instinct 10. Donkey Kong Country

Somehow missed that Canva acquired Serif. Tried to download my paid for Affinity software to find it's free now thanks to Canva. Like, all three suites. Not sure what I feel about this. Been an Affinity faithful for a long time. This seems... Not good. Prepping for enshitification... Maybe.

There was a massive amount of hype around what Persona 5 was going to be when it was announced. There was even this so-called Fan OST that went around on YouTube. Stumbled on this yesterday from that vault. It's snazzy! youtu.be/pPMoAO-h3gQ?...

【ペルソナ５】 PERSONA 5 ♫ 09 - FEEL SO COOL

YouTube video by ATLUSxP5

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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Well played Copilot. Well played.

For absolutely no reason at all, I wanted to try my hand at F# and did so by yanking some ANSI Escape Sequence code from my PowerShell game and translating it. A few hours later, I had a neat little program. Most likely not the BEST F#, but whatevs. github.com/gregoryfmart...

GitHub - gregoryfmartin/EldoriaAnsiTest: Porting and trying some of the ANSI codes in F#

Porting and trying some of the ANSI codes in F#. Contribute to gregoryfmartin/EldoriaAnsiTest development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Cooking some inventory screen changes during lunch today. #gamedev #powershell #textbased

Time for some Black Adder.

a man wearing a black jacket and a white ruffled tie

ALT: a man wearing a black jacket and a white ruffled tie

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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

LOL Cleaned out my pantry and found these two hanging out way back on the top shelf. Competitive programming back in my youth. #programming #fightme

100%. Nothing cooler than getting to the register only to be told you can get X thing because SNAP won't cover it.

Liz Faber@lizwfab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Unless you’ve been on SNAP or had to be a cashier in a grocery store while someone discovers the insane restrictions placed on SNAP food choices, I simply think you should shut the hell up about food access.

I was a food stamp kid, 100%. I'd wager some of these douches vying for its demise were also. Nothing quite like patting yourself on the back for depriving people, especially children, access to food.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 9mo ago

More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.

@dotdot.horse challenged me to a contest of skill. I accepted. Eldoria. She is now... TOASTED! Thanks to @toastit.dev for the awesome BurntToast library! For giggles, Eldoria will use BurntToast to create and update a toast during battles. :) youtu.be/ImB9gd61rlo #gamedev #powershell

Toasting Eldoria Part 2

YouTube video by Gregory Martin

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🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡 I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

Having a really hard time figuring how these tech companies are laying off because of AI. Have you *used* AI tooling for practical purposes?

Reading this for the first time. It's a great summary of the AI landscape from the perspective of philosophy and ethics. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253819... #ai

AI Ethics

Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind ...

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@allwayshype.com Just listened to the recent PowerShell Podcast episode and it was awesome! BTW - shoutouts to MySpace code editing (I did the same thing back in the day). Gradient background CSS FTW.

New item inventory management screen 95% done. Just need to add the item drop confirmation dialog. #gamedev #powershell

My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.

Come join me (virtually) at next week's RTPSUG meeting where I'll be talking about the past, present, and future of #BurntToast www.meetup.com/research-tri... #PowerShell

BurntToast v1.0: Celebrating a Decade of Windows Notifications (Josh King), Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

The BurntToast PowerShell module is like a personal chef for your Windows notifications — it serves up those little pop-up messages in the corner of your screen, but with w

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📢 2 days to go! Submit your CFP, tag a peer with a great idea, and share this to spread the word! #PowerShell #PSHSummit26 #Tech

me working to solve the rising sea levels

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators

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#pixelart #artpost

We be cooking today. New status menu and (not pictured) revamped battle engine. #gamedev #powershell #textbased

Q: Why did you cut snap and health care research? Rep. Flood: We do not have unlimited money in the United States. [Crowd booing]