Experiments of 2021-10

Pwsh: Fuzzy Select Colors With Preview

• queries the color provider with partial matches
• pipes to Out-Fzf or fzf for the preview and selection

Bitwise operators

Generated using a Pwsh script

ShouldProcess formatting

More Fzf

PSReadline: Auto-expand Aliases in the CLI

• alt+shift+( surrounds selection, or the entire command in parenthesis
• alt+shift+% runs Invoke-Formatter to format the code, including alias replacement

Pester5 ForEach | `code` snippet

Using Notebooks: for Github issue queries

Created a list of queries for the release of https://vscode.dev
ninmonkey/VS Code on the Web – Cheat Sheet – Custom urls.md

Power Query Web.Contents wrapper for Web API / REST calls

• WebRequest_Simple.pq
• enables ManualStatusHandling for better errors ( This is important for any REST APIs)
• detects whether it’s Json or html, and returns a json record if existing
• Always displays the response as plain-text as response_text
• Lets you inspect request info, like headers used.

Power Query: Import from an external file

Experimenting with console formatting

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Select a ton of properties, saving names as an array

Hashtables: Command line formatting

DAX: Syntax highlight bracket pairs

• syntax highlighting is from the addon: DAX Languge Support

    "[dax-language]": {
        "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true, //colorize the pairs
        "editor.guides.bracketPairs": true, // colorize vertical lines
        "editor.matchBrackets": "always",
        "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
        "editor.lineNumbers": "off",
    },
},

Pwsh: Prompt that summarizes recent errors

Pwsh: Colorized Directory Listing

• Using terminal wt, Pwsh as the shell, and module: pansies for color
• The current directory is a gradient, the boldest part is the most important part of the path.
• cd-ing to a directory will summarize the new directory, without “spamming” the user when there’s a lot of items
  • Folders first, sorted by most recently modified
  • Files second, sorted most recently
  • Icon shows filetype

DAX: Conditionally Toggle Button using Measure

WordPress Image scaling