Nathan Ziehnert (The Z-Nerd)
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Nathan Ziehnert (The Z-Nerd)
@z-nerd.com
Endpoint Management Software Engineer
Husband / Dad
Curler 🥌 / Cyclist 🚴
Occasional Jokester / Lover of Memes
Ahh yes, sure… just let me pull out my decompiler and debugger…
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
DNS is the “Sex Panther” of services that run the internet… “60% of the time, it works every time.”
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
What have I done?! @mmsmoa.bsky.social

Counting down the days...

mms2025atmoa.sched.com/event/1uF5w/...
April 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Solid reasoning coming out of Microsoft’s DeepSeek R1 NPU Optimized distillation…

“Wait, but in PowerShell, you can’t have a script with just one line unless it’s a single-line script”

At least it’s fast?

Sigh…
February 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I’m officially declaring this video clip retired. Perfect. No notes.
January 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This must be how it feels when I walk into a room and computers start working again
January 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Fridge water dispenser not working after getting back from vacation

pull fridge out, check valve, line, etc… all looks good. ugh

Finally get around to chatting with LG today:

“please check this (10 things that I’ve already done)”
“I already did”
“Please do it again”

Dispenser starts working

MFW
January 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
0.001% of listeners…

You know a new Athletics jam hates to see me coming…
December 5, 2024 at 4:36 PM
December 5, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Tried to go back to Twitter for a bit... still a nope for me dawg. Coming back here to be more active again! Stay tuned!
November 7, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Today I was honored with the Microsoft MVP award in PowerShell. So thankful to the community and to those who have helped me in this journey! Excited to continue sharing content - if you’re in need of a PowerShell presenter for your user group, let me know! #mvpbuzz
January 10, 2024 at 3:46 AM
But it now means that there is a probability that she will be my representative…
December 28, 2023 at 3:21 AM
If you play around with Lists or Arrays in #PowerShell here is a handy cheat sheet for accessing objects from your Array/List. More info is available here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers... (thanks to Kevin Marquette for his thorough dive into arrays!). Apologies for the tiny text - link is above.
November 27, 2023 at 6:45 PM
This comment lol:
November 19, 2023 at 12:39 AM
It has begun again... let the blogging begin...
November 7, 2023 at 3:50 AM
One more…
October 17, 2023 at 4:19 AM
Some photos from riding Woodland Park this weekend… if you look real close you can see my water bottle oopsie…
October 17, 2023 at 4:18 AM
I can’t believe I wasted my first post on a dumb meme… actually I can.

Anyone joining me at #MMS in Miami… you may have several chances to win one of these baddies…

Join my AI for IT Pros session… or maybe donate to the raffle…
October 12, 2023 at 12:28 AM