In my last post, I more or less just complained about what a dumpster fire developing anything for Twitter is. Originally, though, the post was intended to be about what I was developing for Twitter. It’s nothing amazing or even complicated, but it was a fun learning experience… Twitter itself not withstanding. I made a… Continue reading Python’s Beautiful Soup
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Twitter Development Impressions
I recently had an idea to turn the Twitter account for my defunct podcast into a Twitter bot posting a new shade of pink every day; it makes sense because the podcast and Twitter account were centered around the color pink. I didn’t really think anyone would care about this particular bot, but it seemed… Continue reading Twitter Development Impressions
Deciphering the Office 365 PSTN Usage Report
Background Last week I received a bit of a mystifying alert from Office 365 letting me know that our pool of PSTN dial-out minutes for the month had been 80% consumed. This was mystifying due to the fact that as someone who has managed O365 for nearly a decade I didn’t realize there was a… Continue reading Deciphering the Office 365 PSTN Usage Report
Sorting IP Addresses With PowerShell
I was recently attempting to sort a list of IP addresses that I had in a text file. PowerShell is awesome at sorting, so I figured I would use it given that I had nearly 2000 of them. I initially just tried to pipe the contents of the file to the Sort-Object cmdlet: Get-Content -Path… Continue reading Sorting IP Addresses With PowerShell
PowerShell: Export Non-Standard and Multi-Value AD Attributes to CSV
I’ve recently been spending a lot of my time at work doing PowerShell scripting for a project that’s currently underway. While working on a bit of code late last week I ran into two interesting problems that I had yet to really stumble across despite doing heavy PowerShell scripting against Active Directory for nearly a… Continue reading PowerShell: Export Non-Standard and Multi-Value AD Attributes to CSV