Jake Bolton ninmonkey

-join (1..255 | % { "`e[48;5;$($_)m  {0:00#}  `e[0m" -f $_ + ($_ % 15 -eq 0 ? "`n" : " ") })
-join (1..255 | % { "`e[48;5;$($_)m  {0:00#}  `e[0m" -f $_ + ($_ % ($host.ui.RawUI.WindowSize.Width / 10) -eq 0 ? "`n" : " ") })


#Windows Powershell compatible version
-join (1..255 | % { "$([char]27)[48;5;$($_)m  {0:00#}  $([char]27)[0m" -f $_;if ($_ % ($host.ui.RawUI.WindowSize.Width / 10) -eq 0) { "`n" } else { " " } })

`template-with-images.md`

This example organizes all the non-pbix files in subdirectories.
Imagine main is a local folder, ex: inside the root folder: `c:\git\PowerQuery

The absolute path to my screenshot is:

c:\git\PowerQuery\img\title.screenshot.png

About

Docker desktop throws 20GB on c:\ . This is how you can move that to another drive like D:\wsl.2023\

EverythingSearch query

ext:vhdx

Here's a random example to demonstrate html

Tips : Multiline strings

It can be messy writing a bunch of newlines in a multiline string. It's easier to use a list of strings that combine.

For Html newlines

= Text.Combine({ "Line1", "", "Line3" }, "<br>")

Here's some settings that may help with performance

Here's some settings that may help with performance

We are, for now, just using the official github copilot CLI, but they didn't really have hooks for PowerShell, so I wrote a few functions to implement it.

It works great, as you can see:

Default settings in VS Code are dynamic. They are generated based on your extensions's metadata. That means they are up to date. I have some tips for discovering new settings in Vs Code through Default settings (ninmonkeys.com)

Another extension that helps is Better Align

The main settings:

{   "powershell.codeFormatting.autoCorrectAliases": true,
    "powershell.codeFormatting.useConstantStrings": true,
    "powershell.codeFormatting.useCorrectCasing": true,
 "powershell.codeFormatting.alignPropertyValuePairs": true,

	<#
	yoinked and just stripped the namespace and change internal to public
	https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/System.Management.Automation/utils/FuzzyMatch.cs
	https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/damerau-levenshtein-distance/
	https://yassineelkhal.medium.com/the-complete-guide-to-string-similarity-algorithms-1290ad07c6b7
	#>
	Add-Type -TypeDefinition @'
	// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
	// Licensed under the MIT License.

	class EncodingAttribute : System.Management.Automation.ArgumentTransformationAttribute {
	[object] Transform([System.Management.Automation.EngineIntrinsics]$engineIntrinsics, [object] $inputData) {
	if ( $inputData -is [string] ) {
	return [Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding($inputData)
	} else {
	return $inputData
	}
	}
	}