Mike F. Robbins
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Mike F. Robbins
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Lead technical writer for Azure PowerShell & Azure CLI at Microsoft, former MVP, Automator, Efficiency Expert, Author, Lifelong Learner. Opinions are my own.
Use #Gmail and want to reduce email tracking?

Set Images to "Ask before displaying external images". This setting blocks hidden tracking pixels from phoning home and turns off dynamic email, which helps protect your privacy.
August 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Did you know you can use #AzureCLI in #PowerShell without long commands or line continuation characters? (And no, splatting doesn't work here). Curious—what other tricks or alternatives have you found?
May 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
May 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Want your #macOS screenshots to default to a format other than PNG? Change the format using this command: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg # or pdf, tiff, heic, bmp
May 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Grateful to receive my Microsoft 5-Year Service Award today! It now sits next to my MVP award—six years as a Microsoft MVP and five years as a Blue Badge. I'm honored to be part of this community and excited for what's ahead. #CareerMilestone #MicrosoftLife
May 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
What's your preferred web browser? I currently use #Mozilla #Firefox for personal browsing & Edge for work. However, I'm exploring alternative options with Firefox's recent terms of use changes—and not wanting to invest in a Mac Studio with half a terabyte of RAM just to run it. Any recommendations?
March 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm curious to know how quiet a 16-inch #MacBook Pro with M4 Pro or M4 Max is under load. How fast do the fans spin during intensive tasks?

The same model with the M2 Pro is silent because the fans never spin up.
December 13, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Well, this is a new twist. Scammers are stepping up their phishing game. Most phishing attempts I've seen usually claim to be from the post office about an undelivered package. This one is more convincing, as it's tied to Amazon, a service most people use regularly.
December 12, 2024 at 5:24 PM
I'm exploring @steviecoaster.dev 's blog to see what #PowerShell topics he's writing about. I couldn't find a link to the RSS feed, but it follows the same format as my blog since it's Hugo.

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri steviecoaster.dev/index.xml | Format-List -Property title, link, pubDate, description
December 12, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Checking to see if I've missed any episodes of the #PowerShell podcast. 📻💻 For the code to select and open a PowerShell podcast episode webpage with PowerShell, see this gist: gist.github.com/mikefrobbins...
December 11, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Using @jdhitsolutions.com's PSBluesky #PowerShell module to catch up on @steviecoaster.dev 's #pwsh tips of the day.

Get-BskyFeed -UserName steviecoaster.dev | Where-Object text -match 'Pwsh Tip of the day' | Sort-Object -Property Date -Descending | Format-List -Property text -GroupBy date
December 10, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Love your drawings :-).
November 13, 2024 at 4:39 PM
I'm presenting "Automate #Azure resources at scale with Azure #PowerShell" at #SQLSatBR on Saturday, July 27th: sqlsaturday.com/2024-07-27-s...
July 18, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I'll bring the drinks
July 3, 2023 at 6:18 PM