Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?

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Post by joeyaiello » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 8:10 PM UTC

southerntofu wrote: post #325

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PM lead for PowerShell here, thanks for the callout! I'll take "isn't the worst". ;) I'd love to get more of your thoughts around how PowerShell might be more useful for the kinds of scenarios you're thinking about. We see a lot of folks writing portable CI/CD build/test/deploy scripts for cross-platform apps (or to support cross-platform development), but we're always looking to lower the barrier of entry to get int…

> I'll take "isn't the worst". ;) You should! It was definitely a compliment. > I'd love to get more of your thoughts On a technical level, i would say PowerShell is a breakthrough because it democratized the concept of structured data REPL as a shell. This pattern was well-known to GNU (and other LISP) hackers but not very popular otherwise, so thank you very much for that. Despite that, having telemetry in a shell…

I read all of it, as well as some more of your writings that I found, and I very much appreciate your thoughtfulness. I don't agree with everything you've said here, but you raise some very good points. Thanks, friend. :)

Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?

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Post by majkinetor » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 9:25 PM UTC

joeyaiello wrote: post #547

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Stop shipping your org chart! Microsoft has always had this problem, but with PowerShell -- which is supposed to be this unified interface to all things Microsoft -- it is glaringly obvious that teams at Microsoft do not talk to each other. To this day, the ActiveDirectory commands throw exceptions instead of returning Errors. Are you not allowed to talk to them? The Exchange "Set" commands, if failing to match the p…

Thanks for the thoughtful response! Many of these are totally legitimate: in particular, we're making steady progress to centralize module design, release, documentation, and modernization, or at least to bring many teams closer together. In many cases, we're at a transition point between moving from traditional PS remoting modules and filling out PS coverage for newer OAuth / REST API flows. I don't know how recentl…

It looks like the main problem people have with PowerShell is slow startup. You should probably work on making it snappy as main priority.

As far as module problems are in question, this is IMO not really fair - you can't expect that every team there have the same standards regarding how modules should work, no matter if the team is from Microsoft or not. The best you could do is perhaps form a consulting / standards enforcing team for MS grown modules.

I love PowerShell, its really poster child for how projects should be done on GH.

And I agree with you about REST API - I never use anything else to explore it (including postman and friends) - I am simply more productive in pwsh. We love it in company so much that we always create powershell REST API client for our services by hand (although some generators are available) in order to be in spirit of the language; all automatic tests are done with it, using awesome Pester 5.

Thanks for all the great work. PowerShell makes what I do joy to that point that I am always in it.

Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?

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Post by _carbyau_ » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 3:58 AM UTC

TimJRobinson wrote: post #536

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Yeah, I haven't communicated it well. I am aiming for a decentralised-FB like experience on Signal. And I honestly think it is feasible. On FB, you tag a post with intended recipients(default:All "Friends"), people log in and get fed these posts with FB fiddling along the way. Signal with a redesigned UX could show a doom scroll of posts that friends send you. Not that I think this is great, but user adoption for fam…

Scuttlebutt is the software you're looking for. Check out the patchwork client. Posts are public by default but you can make them encrypted so only your friends can read them. There's also cabal chat which is based on the same underlying technology but is chat focused rather than Facebook like.

This is very interesting! Thank you!