Episode 7: Avri Roth aka Powershell On Linux

What's PowerShell?

"Those who don't automate are doomed to repeat themselves"

Brief origin of PowerShell

PowerShell going open source https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

Introduction about me

Avri Chen-Roth

https://www.linkedin.com/in/avritech/

Just for fun exercise

Open a PowerShell on your computer Win/Linux/Mac

And run:

Invoke-RestMethod https://www.automator.show/rss

PSAvalonia - Avalonia bindings for PowerShell

https://github.com/ironmansoftware/psavalonia

UDForge

"Native" Electron apps running Universal Dashboard

https://ironmansoftware.com/udforge-build-desktop-apps-with-universal-dashboard/

Snek - PowerShell wrapper around Python for .NET to invoke Python from PowerShell

https://github.com/adamdriscoll/snek

PSKoans - The goal of the PowerShell koans is to teach you PowerShell by presenting you with a set of questions. Each kōan (each question) is represented by a failing Pester test (Unit test)

https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans

ImportExcel - This PowerShell Module allows you to read and write Excel files without installing Microsoft Excel on your system. No need to bother with the cumbersome Excel COM-object. Creating Tables, Pivot Tables, Charts and much more has just become a lot easier.

https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel

Building Lambda Functions with PowerShell

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/powershell-programming-model.html

Bash command completers for PowerShell

https://github.com/rjmholt/PSUnixUtilCompleters

Posh-git is a PowerShell module that integrates Git and PowerShell by providing Git status summary information that can be displayed in the PowerShell prompt

https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git

Selenium-powershell

The Selenium PowerShell module allows you to automate browser interaction using the Selenium API. You can navigate to pages, find elements, click buttons, enter text and even take screenshots.

https://github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell

Making music 🎶 using PowerShell

https://twitter.com/LeeAlanBerg/status/1226684454015578114?s=19