Thorsten Butz

🔔 5 days left to book your Early Bird tickets for the #PowerShell #Conference #Europe 2027 in #Kraków 🎟️ psconf.eu #Pwsh #automation #IT #Poland

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Pretty funny innovation: PA is abanodned in favor of headphones at Koelnmesse. #MSFTAiTour #Frontier

MSFT Ai tour, Cologne Renaming as a Service: I don’t even get what „Frontier tour“ should mean …

Psssst! Have you noticed, that the MiniCon videos are already available … ?

Let's make some waves with #PowerShell! This Wednesday, drop by the Pacific PowerShell User Group at 6 PST and learn all about how to make and manipulate music with PowerShell. www.meetup.com/pacific-powe...

Get a quick overview about #MiniCon26 with PowerShell: (irm 'https://sessionize.com/api/v2/ieq3t8d6/view/all').sessions | ft *at,title All times in UTC.

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📍 The secret is out. #PSConfEU 2027 is heading to Kraków, Poland (21>24 June 2027) 🔴⚪️ 🎟 Only 30 Early Bird tickets at €1,650 ⏳ Until 30 October or sold out 👉 psconf.eu #PSConfEU #PowerShell #Pwsh #Krakow

👋 21-24 June 2027 👋 That's the only thing we're announcing today. If you'd like to hear about ticket sales, speaker announcements and other #PSConfEU updates before everyone else, subscribe on our website psconf.eu #PowerShell #Automation #IT #Conference

A new episode of the Sliding Windows audiocast is out. Guess who is my guest? (Can you guess it from the picture?). You will find it in your favorite podcatcher and on the website. slidingwindows.de/slw26/

This documentary can be very interesting - let’s see, when they publish the full video(s) on Friday. Since they talk a@lot about the forks of @vscode.dev, i am curious if they properly outline, that VSCode itself is a fork. Let’s see. https://youtu.be/C0JzpWmu-j0

Real life ollama herding!

The things you find when you’re tidying up … #MCT

If you think you’ve seen it all – this will still take you by surprise. Or so I reckon. OIDC in PWSH - Ben Reader - PSConfEU 2026 youtu.be/jc8ec1N2QeE

Do you remember “I am a Mac, I am a PC” ? It’s been more than 20 years now … and I thought, it’s even older. Do you know how many clips Apple aired back then? You’d be surprised, I bet. The answer is provided by this video. Worth watching ! https://youtu.be/iBof-aNaDa0

#MCT Summit 2027 will take place in Dublin from 5-7 May. Check all the details on their website mctsummit.ie.

The #MCT Summit 2027 is online. May 2017, Dublin (Ireland) www.mctsummit.ie

Not convinced yet? One more thing : this is called a „Instagram wallpaper“. I❤️London

What I like so much about London is the complete lack of a sense of reality. 🇬🇧 Example : ATM Really?

London 🚲 Network? Promises.

You are right. There is a niche option to donut like this - introduced in 7.somehting. But it breaks almost anything, so I don’t use it. But it looks great, indeed !

Das beste kommt zum Schluss? Vielleicht ... Bei der @psconf.eu in Wiesbaden moderierte ich gemeinsam mit Raimund Andree den Workshop "Reverse AI-ngineering". Da kann ich direkt mal meinen neuen, grandiosenen URI-Shortener präsentieren: Slides, demo code, Video findet man hier: butz.io/psconfeu26

The best is yet to come? Maybe ... My co-hosted session with Raimund Andree from @psconf.eu EU is public. This gives me the oppurtinity to display my awesome new URI-shortener. "Reverse AI-ngineering", get it here: butz.io/psconfeu26

Just wrote a helpful little PowerShell @pckt.blog post about searching the Abstract Syntax Tree: pckt.blog/b/posh/searc... Read it on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell... Check out the module: github.com/StartAutomat... Happy Hunting!

www.magentamusik.de/in-flames-wo... Unbelievable, how good they are. The ABBA of metal - and thats a true compliment from my side. #Wacken

Finally, the beloved #PoShaKucha sessions from Wiesbaden 2026 are online. You find them in the #psconfeu YT channel. We also have a complete YT playlist for all 20x20 recordings. A complete overview cann also be found here: github.com/thorstenbutz... www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Same is true for modules. I compAILe them with a Glympse of an eye. But naming lasts for days. Example: How do you call a Cmdlet that deals with YT playlists? Find-, Search-, Get-Playlist ? The last one seems to fit until you see the necessity of: Get-YouTubePlayListItem

Example : What’s a good umbrella term for all things you published - from videos to articles to books etc? Preferable a term that also works in different languages. AI might tell you „contributions“. Sounds a bit stiff. No comparable term in German. So you spent hours to thing about this.

For years I wanted to update my website and make it static. Never found the time … so, let it wing … Now that AI makes eat suuuuper comfortable, I found out: it still takes a lot of time, to IMPROVE it, since improvements are so easy now - but time consuming. #firstworldproblems

I just released my first #VSCode extension. PSSecretScanner for VSCode. Highlight and twiggle possible secret leakage in code. Builds on the same patterns and lists and is 100% compatible with PSSecretScanner. Go check it out! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

A friend of mine cycled from Hamburg to Paris to raise money to support ill children: Team Rynkeby He just arrived in Paris, what an inspiration. 👏🏻 to all of you brave cyclists!

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A new episode of the Sliding Windows podcast is available. My guest is the uncomparable Ronald Beekelaar. Our topic: The pursuit of learning Enjoy! Get it in every podcatcher or on the website: www.slidingwindows.de/slw25/

You've seen @jdhitsolutions.com on stage. Now get to know the person behind the speaker. 🎥 Bonus PSConfEU interview with @thorsten.butz.io 📺 youtu.be/ExlRYkv0IB4?si=6zo... #PSConfEU #PowerShell #Pwsh

One day, I’d love to give a speech on the topic: „How dare you, MSFT?“ For some unknown reason, nobody has shown any interest in this so far.

Imagine it was @psconf.eu, and you’d melt.

A token is not a word and it's not a character. A token is the chunk of text a model processes as one unit. view my new short on Youtube: youtube.com/@ba4bes

The AI (r)evolution in a single picture.

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www.thurrott.com/apple/337148... That’s good news: „iCloud Shared albums now welcome Windows and Android users Apple announced yesterday that Android and Windows users will finally be able to add photos to iCloud Shared Albums, with full-resolution support.“

I couldn't agree more! Very impressed and inspired by all of them :D

To make it easier for myself, I made these diagrams that show what the most used models cost and what they are used for. They might be helpful for you as well. Find them here: ba4bes.com/sheets Disclaimer: I am not associated with GitHub, and this is not an official communication.

I've been home less than 24 hours and my first presentation from @psconf.eu is already online! youtu.be/1wadoBHCRuU?...

We got you covered … #psconfeu youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Guess what …?! #psconfeu2026

Speed up the code: Dominik Betz explains his approach on last years contest. And, he won it in 2025. #psconfeu