#TodayILearned that to manipulate the property of an object in a #Powershell where-object clause, you have to wrap the clause in curly brackets
i.e. where-object {$_.Status.trim() -eq ‘Winners’} t.co/nNurbv5VX…
President Trump’s anti-enviroment schtick reminds me of Boris Johnson rabbiting on about how newt-counting gets in the way of his build, build, building twitter.com/Acyn/stat…
No.
I definitely wasn’t ready for 2020.
I don’t think any of us were
(From local @CalendarClubUK shop) t.co/YmfDfBE0K…
And the good news is that my script is 4 minute(-ish) faster than yesterday…somewhat unexpectedly tbh! t.co/6FZ93rJkV…
Mr Johnson, a journalist, makes a joke about Starmer’s work as a human rights lawyer
“He’s got more briefs than Calvin Klein.”
More funny peculiar than funny ha-ha
#PMQs twitter.com/salisbury…
Not sure if this is a good idea or not
I timestamp output files with a parameter which defaults to now
I’m adding a bunch of functionality and I want to keep an eye on timings so I’m doing this:
Get-Stuff -timestamp $(get-date -year 1999 -Minute 0 -format “yyyyMMddHHmm”)
I can then look at the lastwritetime for 1999 and easily check when and if I’ve introduced something that significantly slows things down and compare with the changes in git.
I’m doing measure-object occasionally as well
I sometimes send an email to a couple of work colleagues and then picture them being able to discuss whatever it is because they tend to sit at adjacent desks
….it doesn’t quite work like that, currently
#7HabitsOfHighlyDefectivePeople
The soundtrack to this morning’s Powershell scripting will be the ‘Sit-Down’ bits of this
open.spotify.com/album/62C… #NowPlaying
I seem to have developed the habit of opening the VPN app and then not actually clicking ‘Connect’ and then wondering why I’m not connected to anything
#7HabitsOfHighlyDefectivePeople
I like this
The word ‘twit’ is rather underused twitter.com/BBCPoliti…
It’s not all bad news…..there’s a new Carl Hiaasen book coming out :)
RT @JonathanFoyle: “Not one job in Britain is at risk”
“Not one?”
“Because there would be a free trade agreement, because we’re so impor…
#TodayILearned that ‘The Wild Rover’ was originally an English temperance song
(Via @LankumDublin)
I don’t much like the fake crowd noise, but it seems pretty well done
I’m wondering whether
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they’ve developed something very clever very quickly, or
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they’ve borrowed the technology from video games, or
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they’ve always used fake crowd noise if it’s a bit quiet
#Motd
#TodayILearned that Kevin Phillips, one of my favourite, under-rated, non-Chelsea footballers, is related to one of my favourite politicians, Jess
All or nothing?
I’m going with the latter tbh
National treasure @mrmarksteel on the NHS
“Why stop at making NHS staff pay to park, let’s give ambulances speeding tickets too” www.mirror.co.uk/news/poli…
To be fair to old Samuel, it was probably darker and more overgrown then than it was this evening